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Three Burning Questions for 2022: UTEP Miners
UTEP Miners must meet new expectations in the 2022 football season while replacing Jacob Cowing, Justin Garrett at wide receiver

UTEP hired Dana Dimel because of his reputation as a program builder. He helped Bill Snyder ressurect Kansas State twice. He built foundations at Wyoming and Houston as a head coach. Dimel took over a UTEP program prior to the 2018 season that went winless the year before. The Miners won just one game in each of 2018 and 2019 before momentum began to turn. That momentum was crushed by COVID-19, forcing the Miners to push bowl hopes into the 2021 season. UTEP reached that milestone in a seven-win season. The new challenge in El Paso is maintaining those expectations on a yearly basis.
1. Who steps up at wide receiver?
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