The UTEP Miners college football team represents University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in the Mountain West Conference. The Miners compete as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 26 head coaches since it began play during the 1914 season. Since December 2023, Scotty Walden has served as head coach at UTEP.
Eight coaches have led UTEP in postseason bowl games and played in the Sun Bowl eight different times. UTEP has a 5–9 record in 14 bowl games in which they have competed. The Miners have been conference champions twice in their history, once in the Border Conference and once in the Western Athletic Conference.
Saxon spent the most seasons (18) as the Miners' head coach and took the program to its first bowl game. The highest winning percentage by any coach is by Mike Brumbelow, who was the head coach of the team from 1950 to 1956, and went 46–24–3 () in his career. The lowest winning percentage for any coach is by Thomas C. Holliday, who went 0–5 () in 1921. Bobby Dobbs coached the last Miner bowl game win in 1967 beating Ole Miss 14–7. The Miners have not won a bowl game in the 57 years since Bobby Dobbs did it with his Flyin' Miners.
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Coaches + List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards No. Name Year(s) Season(s) GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL PT DC CC NC Awards 1 1914–19171919 — — — — — — — — — — 2 1920 — — — — — — — — — — 3 1921 — — — — — — — — — — 4 1922–1923 — — — — — — — — — — 5 1924–1926 — — — — — — — — — — 6 1927–1928 — — — — — — — — — — 7 1929–1941 — — 8 1942 — — 9 1946–1949 — — 10 1950–1956 — — 11 1957–1961 — — 12 1962 — — — — — — — 13 1963–1964 — — — — — — — 14 1965–1972 — — 15 1972–1973 — — 16 1974–1976 — — 17 1977–1981 — — Int 1981 — — 18 1982–1985 — — 19 1986–1988 — — 20 1989–1993 — — 21 1993–1999 — 22 2000–2003 — — — — — 23 2004–20122017 — — — — 24 2013–2017 — — — — 25 2018–2023 — — — — 26 2024–present — — — — —
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