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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

The stadium is carved into the Franklin Mountains at 3,910 feet, and the first play ever run in it went 54 yards for a touchdown. Sun Bowl Stadium at 2701 Sun Bowl Drive on the UTEP campus opened on 21 September 1963 with Texas Western's Larry Durham breaking his run on the opening snap - a 30,000-seat county-built bowl that grew to 52,000 in 1982. The stadium carries two football identities: home of the UTEP Miners, and host of the Sun Bowl itself - one of college football's oldest bowl games,...