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Dana Dimel served as head coach of the Miners from 2018 to 2023.

The UTEP Miners college football team represents University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in Conference USA (C-USA). 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.[1]

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 (.651) in his career. The lowest winning percentage for any coach is by Thomas C. Holliday, who went 0–5 (.000) in 1921.

Key

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Key to symbols in coaches list
General Overall Conference Postseason[A 1]
No. Order of coaches[A 2] GC Games coached CW Conference wins PW Postseason wins
DC Division championships OW Overall wins CL Conference losses PL Postseason losses
CC Conference championships OL Overall losses CT Conference ties PT Postseason ties
NC National championships OT Overall ties[A 3] C% Conference winning percentage
† Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame O% Overall winning percentage[A 4]

Coaches

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List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards[A 5]
No. Name Season(s)[A 6] GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PW PL PT DC CC NC Awards
1 Tommy Dwyer 1914–1917
1919 		21 9 11 1 0.452 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
2 Harry Van Surdam 1920 6 2 4 0 0.333 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
3 Thomas C. Holliday 1921 5 1 4 0 0.200 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
4 Jack C. Vowell 1922–1923 16 8 8 0 0.500 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
5 George B. Powell 1924–1926 20 11 7 2 0.600 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
6 E. J. Stewart 1927–1928 14 5 6 3 0.464 — — — — — — — — — 0 —
7 Mack Saxon 1929–1941 118 66 43 9 0.597 16 14 3 0.530 0 1 0 — 0 0 —
8 Walter Milner 1942 9 5 4 0 0.556 4 3 0 0.571 0 0 0 — 0 0 —
9 Jack Curtice 1946–1949 40 24 13 3 0.638 13 10 2 0.560 1 1 0 — 0 0 —
10 Mike Brumbelow 1950–1956 73 46 24 3 0.651 25 15 2 0.619 2 1 0 — 1 0 —
11 Ben Collins 1957–1961 48 18 29 1 0.385 9 15 0 0.375 0 0 0 — 0 0 —
12 Bum Phillips 1962 9 4 5 0 0.444 — — — — 0 0 0 — — 0 —
13 Warren Harper 1963–1964 20 3 15 2 0.200 — — — — 0 0 0 — — 0 —
14 Bobby Dobbs 1965–1972 47 20 26 1 0.436 10 20 0 0.333 2 0 0 — 0 0 —
15 Tommy Hudspeth 1972–1973 15 1 14 0 0.067 1 10 0 0.091 0 0 0 — 0 0 —
16 Gil Bartosh 1974–1976 34 6 28 0 0.176 3 17 0 0.150 0 0 0 — 0 0 —
17 Bill Michael 1977–1981 48 5 43 0 0.104 2 25 0 0.074 0 0 0 — 0 0 —
Int Billy Alton 1981 9 1 8 0 0.111 1 6 0 0.143 0 0 0 — 0 0 —
18 Bill Yung 1982–1985 46 7 39 0 0.152 3 28 0 0.097 0 0 0 — 0 0 —
19 Bob Stull 1986–1988 36 21 15 0 0.583 13 11 0 0.542 0 1 0 — 0 0 —
20 David Lee 1989–1993 53 11 41 1 0.217 5 29 1 0.157 0 0 0 — 0 0 —
21 Charlie Bailey 1993–1999 74 19 53 2 0.270 11 40 1 0.221 0 0 0 0 0 0 —
22 Gary Nord 2000–2003 48 14 34 — 0.292 10 19 — 0.345 0 1 — — 1 0 —
23 Mike Price 2004–2012
2017 		116 48 68 — 0.414 30 49 — 0.380 0 3 — 0 0 0 —
24 Sean Kugler 2013–2017 54 18 36 — 0.333 11 22 — 0.333 0 1 — 0 0 0 —
25 Dana Dimel 2018–2023 69 20 49 — 0.290 10 34 — 0.227 0 1 — 0 0 0 —
26 Scotty Walden 2024–present 0 0 0 — – 0 0 — – 0 0 — — 0 0 —

Notes

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  1. ^ Although the first Rose Bowl Game was played in 1902, it has been continuously played since the 1916 game, and is recognized as the oldest bowl game by the NCAA. "—" indicates any season prior to 1916 when postseason games were not played.[2]
  2. ^ A running total of the number of head coaches, with coaches who served separate tenures being counted only once. Interim head coaches are represented with "Int" and are not counted in the running total. "—" indicates the team played but either without a coach or no coach is on record. "X" indicates an interim year without play.
  3. ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[3]
  4. ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[4]
  5. ^ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2023 NCAA Division I FCS football season.
  6. ^ UTEP did not field a team for their 1918 and 1943–1945 seasons.

References

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  1. ^ "UTEP hires Scotty Walden away from Austin Peay to be coach". ESPN.com. Associated Press. December 4, 2023. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
  2. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  3. ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on September 6, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  4. ^ Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
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