Battle of I-10

{{Short description|Conference USA rivalry game}} {{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox sports rivalry |wide=yes |name=Battle of I-10 |image=2014 Battle of I-10 logo.jpg |image_size=200 |caption= |team1=New Mexico State Aggies |team1logo=New Mexico State Aggies wordmark.svg |team2=UTEP Miners |team2logo=UTEP Miners wordmark.svg |sport=Football |firstmeeting=October 31, 1914<br>New Mexico A&M 19, Texas State M&M 0 |mostrecent=November 22, 2025<br>New Mexico State 34, UTEP 31 |nextmeeting= |total=102 |series=UTEP leads 60–40–2 ({{Winning percentage|60|40|2}}) |largestvictory=Texas State M&M, 92–7 (1948) |longeststreak=UTEP, 8 (2009–2016) |longestunbeatenstreak= |currentstreak=New Mexico State, 1 (2025–present) |currentunbeatenstreak= |trophy=Silver Spade Trophy<br>Mayor's Cup |trophy series= |stadiums=Aggie Memorial Stadium<br>Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.<hr>Sun Bowl<br>El Paso, Texas, U.S. }} {{OSM Location map |coord={{Coord|31.9712|-106.6558}} |nolabels=1 |zoom=8 |width=295 |height=250 |caption=Locations of New Mexico State and UTEP |mark1=Red pog.svg |label1=New Mexico State |mark-coord1={{Coord|32.284|-106.742}} |label-pos1=bottom |label-color1=black |mark2=Blue pog.svg |label2=UTEP |mark-coord2={{Coord|31.77|-106.505}} |label-pos2 top |label-color2=black }}

The '''Battle of I-10''' is the name given to the '''New Mexico State–UTEP football rivalry'''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alumni.utep.edu/historyandspirit|title=History & Spirit - The University of Texas at El Paso|website=alumni.utep.edu}}</ref> It is a college rivalry game between New Mexico State University (NMSU) and the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). It is called the Battle of I-10 because the two universities are located along Interstate 10 connecting Las Cruces and El Paso. The teams compete for the '''Silver Spade Trophy''' and the '''Mayor's Cup'''.

==Football== In the 109–year-old series between the New Mexico State Aggies and the UTEP Miners, UTEP holds the series lead at 60–40–2, largely due to dominance in the series from the 1920s to the 1960s.

The winner of the annual matchup receives a pair of traveling trophies. The older of the two is known as the Silver Spade and dates to 1955. The trophy is a replica of a prospector's shovel from an abandoned mine in the Organ Mountains. The Mayor's Cup was added in 1982 and is nicknamed the Brass Spittoon.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kfoxtv.com/sports/miners-all-access/battle-of-i-10-between-utep-nmsu-makes-its-way-to-the-football-field|title=Battle of I-10 between UTEP, NMSU makes its way to the football field|first=UTEP|last=Staff|date=November 22, 2019|website=KFOX|quote="The winner of the annual matchup between UTEP and NM State will take home a pair of traveling trophies. The older of the two is known as the Silver Spade. It is a replica of an old prospector’s shovel found in an abandoned mine in the Organ Mountains near Las Cruces and has been traded between the schools since 1955. A second trophy is officially titled the Mayor’s Cup, but is commonly referred to as the Brass Spittoon and was added in 1982."}}</ref>

Due to the close proximity of the campuses it was natural for a rivalry to develop. The Texas College of Mines played its first ever game against a collegiate opponent versus New Mexico A&M in 1914 and, with few exceptions, including during World War I and World War II, the teams would meet again every year. Following World War II, the series resumed on an annual basis from 1946 until 2001, when UTEP's administration made the controversial decision to cancel their scheduled trip to Las Cruces in favor of scheduling an additional home contest against a Division I-AA opponent. The schools agreed to meet again in 2002 (a 49–14 New Mexico State win, their biggest blowout of the Miners since 1922), but did not play again until 2004 in El Paso when the Miners exacted revenge for their blowout loss two years prior with a 45–0 pasting of the Aggies, the most lopsided result in the series in 55 years. The blowout marked the beginning of a three-game winning streak for UTEP in the rivalry. The tide of the series then seemingly turned back in the Aggies' favor, as New Mexico State defeated UTEP the next two years, their first back-to-back wins over UTEP since 1994 and 1995. The Aggies edged the Miners 34–33 on September 20, 2008, at the Sun Bowl for their first win in El Paso since 1994. However, the most recent three games in the series have gone back to the Miners, with UTEP defeating NMSU at Aggie Memorial Stadium 38–12 on September 19, 2009 (only their second win in the Mesilla Valley since 1991), topping the Aggies 42–10 at the Sun Bowl on September 18, 2010, and again defeating the Aggies 16–10 on September 17, 2011, in Las Cruces for their first back-to-back road wins in the series since winning four straight games in Las Cruces between 1986 and 1991.

In August 2020, New Mexico State postponed football and fall sports due to COVID-19.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2020/08/13/new-mexico-state-football-fall-cancelled/3365996001/|title=New Mexico State will not play football in fall due to COVID-19 concerns|work=Las Cruces Sun-News|date=August 13, 2020|access-date=October 16, 2020}}</ref> However, UTEP and Conference USA proceeded with fall football. As a result, in 2020, the Battle of I-10 had no football game for the first time since 2003.

On November 5, 2021, New Mexico State announced it would be joining UTEP in Conference USA in all sports including football starting in 2023. The 2023 game thus marked the first time in over 60 years that the Battle of I-10 was played as a conference game; before this, the last time this happened was in 1961, with both schools as members of the now defunct Border Conference.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NM State to Join Conference USA on July 1, 2023 |url=https://nmstatesports.com/news/2021/11/5/baseball-nm-state-to-join-conference-usa-on-july-1-2023.aspx |access-date=October 29, 2022 |website=New Mexico State University Athletics |language=en}}</ref>

On October 1, 2024, UTEP announced it would be joining the Mountain West Conference in all sports starting in 2026.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jr |first=Sam Khan |last2=Vannini |first2=Chris |title=UTEP joining Mountain West after leaving Conference USA |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5809433/2024/10/01/utep-mountain-west-conference-realignment/ |access-date=2024-10-09 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Following the final CUSA conference football game between the two schools in 2025, the future of the rivalry game frequency remains unknown, although they will likely play again due to both programs remaining in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

===Notable statistics=== * From 1920 to 1951, UTEP hosted 22 of 28 games. * Before 1927, New Mexico State dominated the first 10 games with a record of 8–1–1. * From 1927 to 1967, UTEP dominated the series with a record of 29–7–1. * New Mexico State's back-to-back victories in 1960–1961 were its first since 1937–1938. * As of 2025, UTEP has won on the road 21 times, while New Mexico State has won on the road 19 times. * There have been 2 ties in the series, once in El Paso in 1925 and once in Las Cruces in 1952. * The September 26, 1998, game at Aggie Memorial Stadium set the all-time attendance record for any football game at the stadium with 32,993 in attendance. * The September 25, 1999, game at Sun Bowl set a new attendance record for that stadium with 52,247 which surpasses all Sun Bowl games and NFL Exhibition games ever played there. However, since then 2 regular season UTEP games have surpassed that attendance.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sunbowl.org/index.php?option%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D45%26Itemid%3D54 |title=2008 Brut Sun Bowl - 75th Anniversary - Largest Crowds at Sun Bowl Stadium |access-date=October 20, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211021057/http://www.sunbowl.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=54 |archive-date=December 11, 2008 }}</ref> * The two most record breaking lopsided victories in the rivalry: ** November 11, 1922 – New Mexico State 64, UTEP 0 ** November 25, 1948 – UTEP 92, New Mexico State 7

===Game results=== ''Note: UTEP was known as the Texas School of Mines and Metallurgy prior to 1949 and Texas Western College from 1949–1967 and New Mexico State was known as New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts prior to 1960. Both schools are listed under their modern abbreviations for all games.'' {{Sports rivalry series table |cols=2 |series_summary=yes |format=compact |team1=New Mexico State / New Mexico A&M |team1style={{NCAA color cell|New Mexico State Aggies}} |team2=UTEP / Texas State M&M / Texas Western |team2style={{NCAA color cell|UTEP Miners}} |October 31, 1914|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico A&M|19|Texas State M&M|0 |October 30, 1915|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico A&M|34|Texas State M&M|0 |November 25, 1916|Las Cruces, NM|Texas State M&M|6|New Mexico A&M|3 |{{Tooltip|November 11, 1920|Thursday}}|El Paso, TX|New Mexico A&M|12|Texas State M&M|7 |{{Tooltip|November 11, 1921|Friday}}|El Paso, TX|New Mexico A&M|13|Texas State M&M|0 |November 11, 1922|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico A&M|64|Texas State M&M|0 |{{Tooltip|November 11, 1923|Sunday}}|El Paso, TX|New Mexico A&M|23|Texas State M&M|2 |November 8, 1924|El Paso, TX|New Mexico A&M|19|Texas State M&M|0 |November 7, 1925|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|6|Texas State M&M|6 |November 6, 1926|El Paso, TX|New Mexico A&M|10|Texas State M&M|8 |November 12, 1927|El Paso, TX|Texas State M&M|19|New Mexico A&M|7 |November 10, 1928|El Paso, TX|Texas State M&M|6|New Mexico A&M|0 |November 9, 1929|El Paso, TX|Texas State M&M|8|New Mexico A&M|0 |November 15, 1930|Las Cruces, NM|Texas State M&M|25|New Mexico A&M|0 |November 21, 1931|El Paso, TX|Texas State M&M|20|New Mexico A&M|0 |October 29, 1932|Las Cruces, NM|Texas State M&M|31|New Mexico A&M|6 |November 4, 1933|El Paso, TX|Texas State M&M|9|New Mexico A&M|0 |{{Tooltip|November 28, 1935|Thursday}}|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico A&M|7|Texas State M&M|0 |{{Tooltip|November 26, 1936|Thursday}}|El Paso, TX|Texas State M&M|27|New Mexico A&M|7 |{{Tooltip|September 24, 1937|Friday}}|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico A&M|14|Texas State M&M|0 |{{Tooltip|November 24, 1938|Thursday}}|El Paso, TX|New Mexico A&M|13|Texas State M&M|9 |{{Tooltip|November 30, 1939|Thursday}}|Las Cruces, NM|Texas State M&M|34|New Mexico A&M|0 |November 30, 1940|El Paso, TX|Texas State M&M|40|New Mexico A&M|26 |November 22, 1941|El Paso, TX|Texas State M&M|24|New Mexico A&M|13 |{{Tooltip|November 26, 1942|Thursday}}|El Paso, TX|Texas State M&M|61|New Mexico A&M|6 |{{Tooltip|November 28, 1946|Thursday}}|El Paso, TX|New Mexico A&M|14|Texas State M&M|7 |November 22, 1947|El Paso, TX|Texas State M&M|26|New Mexico A&M|0 |{{Tooltip|November 25, 1948|Thursday}}|El Paso, TX|Texas State M&M|92|New Mexico A&M|7 |{{Tooltip|November 25, 1949|Friday}}|El Paso, TX|Texas Western|69|New Mexico A&M|7 |September 23, 1950|El Paso, TX|Texas Western|40|New Mexico A&M|0 |September 29, 1951|El Paso, TX|Texas Western|41|New Mexico A&M|7 |October 18, 1952|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico A&M|20|Texas Western|20 |October 17, 1953|El Paso, TX|Texas Western|39|New Mexico A&M|0 |October 30, 1954|Las Cruces, NM|Texas Western|12|New Mexico A&M|7 |October 29, 1955|El Paso, TX|Texas Western|41|New Mexico A&M|6 |October 27, 1956|Las Cruces, NM|Texas Western|51|New Mexico A&M|7 |October 26, 1957|El Paso, TX|Texas Western|42|New Mexico A&M|12 |October 25, 1958|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico A&M|17|Texas Western|16 |October 24, 1959|El Paso, TX|Texas Western|20|New Mexico A&M|15 |November 26, 1960|Las Cruces, NM|#15 New Mexico State|27|Texas Western|15 |October 28, 1961|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|42|Texas Western|6 |November 10, 1962|Las Cruces, NM|Texas Western|21|New Mexico State|0 |October 5, 1963|El Paso, TX|Texas Western|14|New Mexico State|13 |November 21, 1964|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico State|13|Texas Western|7 |October 2, 1965|El Paso, TX|Texas Western|21|New Mexico State|6 |November 19, 1966|El Paso, TX|Texas Western|28|New Mexico State|14 |November 4, 1967|El Paso, TX|UTEP|46|New Mexico State|24 |October 19, 1968|El Paso, TX|UTEP|30|New Mexico State|14 |November 8, 1969|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|41|UTEP|38 |October 3, 1970|El Paso, TX|UTEP|21|New Mexico State|14 |October 16, 1971|Las Cruces, NM|UTEP|14|New Mexico State|7 |September 30, 1972|El Paso, TX|UTEP|21|New Mexico State|20 |October 6, 1973|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|27|UTEP|23 |October 12, 1974|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico State|14|UTEP|13 |September 13, 1975|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|31|UTEP|24 |September 11, 1976|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico State|13|UTEP|10 |October 1, 1977|El Paso, TX|UTEP|23|New Mexico State|21 |September 16, 1978|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico State|35|UTEP|32 |September 15, 1979|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|14|UTEP|13 |September 13, 1980|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico State|6|UTEP|3 |September 5, 1981|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|14|UTEP|7 |September 4, 1982|Las Cruces, NM|UTEP|20|New Mexico State|17 |September 3, 1983|El Paso, TX|UTEP|20|New Mexico State|9 |October 6, 1984|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico State|27|UTEP|16 |September 21, 1985|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|22|UTEP|20 |September 13, 1986|Las Cruces, NM|UTEP|47|New Mexico State|33 |September 5, 1987|El Paso, TX|UTEP|31|New Mexico State|0 |October 29, 1988|Las Cruces, NM|UTEP|42|New Mexico State|9 |September 16, 1989|Las Cruces, NM|UTEP|29|New Mexico State|27 |September 8, 1990|El Paso, TX|UTEP|27|New Mexico State|24 |September 14, 1991|Las Cruces, NM|UTEP|22|New Mexico State|21 |September 19, 1992|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|30|UTEP|24 |September 18, 1993|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico State|31|UTEP|14 |September 17, 1994|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|23|UTEP|22 |September 2, 1995|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico State|45|UTEP|17 |September 14, 1996|El Paso, TX|UTEP|14|New Mexico State|7 |September 27, 1997|El Paso, TX|UTEP|24|New Mexico State|16 |September 26, 1998|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico State|33|UTEP|24 |September 25, 1999|El Paso, TX|UTEP|54|New Mexico State|23 |September 30, 2000|El Paso, TX|UTEP|41|New Mexico State|31 |October 5, 2002|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico State|49|UTEP|14 |October 2, 2004|El Paso, TX|UTEP|45|New Mexico State|0 |September 3, 2005|Las Cruces, NM|UTEP|34|New Mexico State|17 |September 30, 2006|El Paso, TX|UTEP|44|New Mexico State|38 |September 15, 2007|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico State|29|UTEP|24 |September 20, 2008|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|34|UTEP|33 |September 19, 2009|Las Cruces, NM|UTEP|38|New Mexico State|12 |September 18, 2010|El Paso, TX|UTEP|42|New Mexico State|10 |September 17, 2011|Las Cruces, NM|UTEP|16|New Mexico State|10 |September 15, 2012|El Paso, TX|UTEP|41|New Mexico State|28 |September 14, 2013|Las Cruces, NM|UTEP|42|New Mexico State|21 |September 13, 2014|El Paso, TX|UTEP|42|New Mexico State|24 |September 19, 2015|Las Cruces, NM|UTEP|50|New Mexico State|47 |September 3, 2016|El Paso, TX|UTEP|38|New Mexico State|22 |September 23, 2017|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico State|41|UTEP|14 |September 22, 2018|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|27|UTEP|20 |November 23, 2019|Las Cruces, NM|New Mexico State|44|UTEP|35 |August 28, 2021|Las Cruces, NM|UTEP|30|New Mexico State|3 |September 10, 2022|El Paso, TX|UTEP|20|New Mexico State|13 |October 18, 2023|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|28|UTEP|7 |November 30, 2024|Las Cruces, NM|UTEP|42|New Mexico State|35 |November 22, 2025|El Paso, TX|New Mexico State|34|UTEP|31 }} * Non-conference games (75: 1914–1933 and 1962–2022) * Not played in 10 seasons (1917–1919, 1934, 1943–1945, 2001, 2003 and 2020)

==Coaching records== Since first game on October 31, 1914

===New Mexico State=== {|class="sortable wikitable" style="text-align:center" !Head Coach !Team !Games !Seasons !Wins !Losses !Ties !Pct. |- |align=left|Clarence W. Russell||New Mexico A&M||3||1914–1916||2||1||0||{{Winning percentage|2|1|0}} |- |align=left|John G. Griffith||New Mexico A&M||0||1917||0||0||0||{{Winning percentage|0|0|0}} |- !colspan=8|No team (1918) |- |align=left|Anthony Savage||New Mexico A&M||0||1919||0||0||0||{{Winning percentage|0|0|0}} |- |align=left|Dutch Bergman||New Mexico A&M||3||1920–1922||3||0||0||{{Winning percentage|3|0|0}} |- |align=left|R. R. Brown||New Mexico A&M||3||1923–1925||2||0||1||{{Winning percentage|2|0|1}} |- |align=left|Arthur Burkholder||New Mexico A&M||1||1926||1||0||0||{{Winning percentage|1|0|0}} |- |align=left|Ted Coffman||New Mexico A&M||2||1927–1928||0||2||0||{{Winning percentage|0|2|0}} |- |align=left|Jerry Hines||New Mexico A&M||10||1929–1939||3||7||0||{{Winning percentage|3|7|0}} |- |align=left|Julius H. Johnston||New Mexico A&M||3||1940–1942||0||3||0||{{Winning percentage|0|3|0}} |- |align=left|Maurice Moulder||New Mexico A&M||0||1943||0||0||0||{{Winning percentage|0|0|0}} |- !colspan=8|No team (1944–1945) |- |align=left|Raymond A. Curfman||New Mexico A&M||2||1946–1947||1||1||0||{{Winning percentage|1|1|0}} |- |align=left|Vaughn Corley||New Mexico A&M||3||1948–1950||0||3||0||{{Winning percentage|0|3|0}} |- |align=left|Joseph T. Coleman||New Mexico A&M||2||1951–1952||0||1||1||{{Winning percentage|0|1|1}} |- |align=left|James Patton||New Mexico A&M||2||1953–1954||0||2||0||{{Winning percentage|0|2|0}} |- |align=left|Tony Cavallo||New Mexico A&M||3||1955–1957||0||3||0||{{Winning percentage|0|3|0}} |- |align=left|Warren B. Woodson||New Mexico A&M / State||10||1958–1967||4||6||0||{{Winning percentage|4|6|0}} |- |align=left|Jim Wood||New Mexico State||5||1968–1972||1||4||0||{{Winning percentage|1|4|0}} |- |align=left|Jim Bradley||New Mexico State||5||1973–1977||4||1||0||{{Winning percentage|4|1|0}} |- |align=left|Gil Krueger||New Mexico State||5||1978–1982||4||1||0||{{Winning percentage|4|1|0}} |- |align=left|Fred Zechman||New Mexico State||3||1983–1985||2||1||0||{{Winning percentage|2|1|0}} |- |align=left|Mike Knoll||New Mexico State||4||1986–1989||0||4||0||{{Winning percentage|0|4|0}} |- |align=left|Jim Hess||New Mexico State||7||1990–1996||4||3||0||{{Winning percentage|4|3|0}} |- |align=left|Tony Samuel||New Mexico State||6||1997–2004||2||4||style="background:#DCDCDC;"|&nbsp;||{{Winning percentage|2|4}} |- |align=left|Hal Mumme||New Mexico State||4||2005–2008||2||2||style="background:#DCDCDC;"|&nbsp;||{{Winning percentage|2|2}} |- |align=left|DeWayne Walker||New Mexico State||4||2009–2012||0||4||style="background:#DCDCDC;"|&nbsp;||{{Winning percentage|0|4}} |- |align=left|Doug Martin||New Mexico State||8||2013–2021||3||5||style="background:#DCDCDC;"|&nbsp;||{{Winning percentage|3|5}} |- |align=left|Jerry Kill||New Mexico State||2||2022–2023||1||1||style="background:#DCDCDC;"|&nbsp;||{{Winning percentage|1|1}} |- |align=left|Tony Sanchez||New Mexico State||2||2024–present||1||1||style="background:#DCDCDC;"|&nbsp;||{{Winning percentage|1|1}} |}

===UTEP=== {|class="sortable wikitable" style="text-align:center" !Head Coach !Team !Games !Seasons !Wins !Losses !Ties !Pct. |- |align=left|Tommy Dwyer ({{Small|a}})||Texas State M&M||3||1914–1917||1||2||0||{{Winning percentage|1|2|0}} |- !colspan=8|No team (1918) |- |align=left|Tommy Dwyer ({{Small|b}})||Texas State M&M||0||1919||0||0||0||{{Winning percentage|0|0|0}} |- |align=left|Harry Van Surdam||Texas State M&M||1||1920||0||1||0||{{Winning percentage|0|1|0}} |- |align=left|Thomas C. Holliday||Texas State M&M||1||1921||0||1||0||{{Winning percentage|0|1|0}} |- |align=left|Jack C. Vowell||Texas State M&M||2||1922–1923||0||2||0||{{Winning percentage|0|2|0}} |- |align=left|George B. Powell||Texas State M&M||3||1924–1926||0||2||1||{{Winning percentage|0|2|1}} |- |align=left|E. J. Stewart||Texas State M&M||2||1927–1928||2||0||0||{{Winning percentage|2|0|0}} |- |align=left|Mack Saxon||Texas State M&M||12||1929–1941||9||3||0||{{Winning percentage|9|3|0}} |- |align=left|Walter Milner||Texas State M&M||1||1942||1||0||0||{{Winning percentage|1|0|0}} |- !colspan=8|No team (1943–1945) |- |align=left|Jack Curtice||Texas State M&M / Western||4||1946–1949||3||1||0||{{Winning percentage|3|1|0}} |- |align=left|Mike Brumbelow||Texas Western||7||1950–1956||6||0||1||{{Winning percentage|6|0|1}} |- |align=left|Ben Collins||Texas Western||5||1957–1961||2||3||0||{{Winning percentage|2|3|0}} |- |align=left|Bum Phillips||Texas Western||1||1962||1||0||0||{{Winning percentage|1|0|0}} |- |align=left|Warren Harper||Texas Western||2||1963–1964||1||1||0||{{Winning percentage|1|1|0}} |- |align=left|Bobby Dobbs||Texas Western / UTEP||8||1965–1972||7||1||0||{{Winning percentage|7|1|0}} |- |align=left|Tommy Hudspeth||UTEP||1||1972–1973||0||1||0||{{Winning percentage|0|1|0}} |- |align=left|Gil Bartosh||UTEP||3||1974–1976||0||3||0||{{Winning percentage|0|3|0}} |- |align=left|Bill Michael||UTEP||5||1977–1981||1||4||0||{{Winning percentage|1|4|0}} |- |align=left|Billy Alton||UTEP||0||1981||0||0||0||{{Winning percentage|0|0|0}} |- |align=left|Bill Yung||UTEP||4||1982–1985||2||2||0||{{Winning percentage|2|2|0}} |- |align=left|Bob Stull||UTEP||3||1986–1988||3||0||0||{{Winning percentage|3|0|0}} |- |align=left|David Lee||UTEP||5||1989–1993||3||2||0||{{Winning percentage|3|2|0}} |- |align=left|Charlie Bailey||UTEP||6||1993–1999||3||3||0||{{Winning percentage|3|3|0}} |- |align=left|Gary Nord||UTEP||2||2000–2003||1||1||style="background:#DCDCDC;"|&nbsp;||{{Winning percentage|1|1}} |- |align=left|Mike Price ({{Small|a}})||UTEP||9||2004–2012||7||2||style="background:#DCDCDC;"|&nbsp;||{{Winning percentage|7|2}} |- |align=left|Sean Kugler||UTEP||5||2013–2017||4||1||style="background:#DCDCDC;"|&nbsp;||{{Winning percentage|4|1}} |- |align=left|Mike Price ({{Small|b}})||UTEP||0||2017||0||0||style="background:#DCDCDC;"|&nbsp;||{{Winning percentage|0|0}} |- |align=left|Dana Dimel||UTEP||5||2018–2023||2||3||style="background:#DCDCDC;"|&nbsp;||{{Winning percentage|2|3}} |- |align=left|Scotty Walden||UTEP||1||2024–present||1||1||style="background:#DCDCDC;"|&nbsp;||{{Winning percentage|1|1}} |} * Tommy Dwyer's overall record in series was 2–0–0 ({{Winning percentage|2|0|0}}) * Mike Price's overall record in series is 7–2 ({{Winning percentage|7|2}})

==Basketball== The New Mexico State and UTEP men's basketball programs share remarkably similar histories and have played an extremely competitive series of games against one another. The programs both experienced their greatest national prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when both schools were led by young up-and-coming coaches who would eventually win more than 700 games (Lou Henson at New Mexico State, Don Haskins at UTEP) and appeared in the NCAA tournament's Final Four within four years of each other. UTEP (then still known as Texas Western) won the 1966 national title while New Mexico State advanced to the 1970 national semifinal before falling to UCLA, but won the consolation game to finish the season third in the nation. Both programs returned to national prominence in the early 1990s with the Aggies and Miners both advancing to the NCAA Tournament's "Sweet Sixteen" in 1992. New Mexico State has appeared in the NCAA Tournament 18 times to UTEP's 17 appearances, and New Mexico State has advanced to the Sweet Sixteen five times to UTEP's four (although three of New Mexico State's appearances in the early 1990s, including the 1992 Sweet Sixteen run, have since been vacated by the NCAA due to rules violations). Most recently, both schools won conference titles and advanced to the NCAA tournament in 2010.

There is some discrepancy between the two schools on the all-time series record as well as the number of all-time meetings between the schools. Entering the 2017–18 season New Mexico State records show that the schools have met 200 times, with New Mexico State holding a 109–103 all time advantage,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nmstatesports.com/news/2011/11/18/205335387.aspx|title=Aggies Host UTEP Saturday at 6 PM|website=New Mexico State University Athletics|access-date=December 14, 2020|archive-date=October 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006111846/http://www.nmstatesports.com/news/2011/11/18/205335387.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> while UTEP records show 201 meetings with New Mexico State's advantage at 108–104.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.utepathletics.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/111711aaa.html|title=Miners Will Have Their Hands Full With Big, Experienced Aggies|work=utepathletics.com|access-date=November 19, 2011|archive-date=November 29, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129013644/http://www.utepathletics.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/111711aaa.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Uniquely among non-conference rivalries, the schools traditionally play a two-game home-and-home series each season, unlike most other non-conference rivalry series where a single meeting per season is the norm. UTEP swept the 2010–11 series between the schools, winning 73–56 on November 23, 2010, in El Paso and 74–72 on November 30, 2010, in Las Cruces. The Aggies defeated the Miners 89–73 in the first meeting of the 2011–12 season series on November 19, 2011, at the Pan American Center in Las Cruces. And later in the second meeting of 2011–12 basketball season the Miners defeated the Aggies 73–69 on December 11, 2011, at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso to split the season series.

==See also== * List of NCAA college football rivalry games * List of most-played college football series in NCAA Division I

==References== {{Reflist}}

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