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Report: UTEP football games with Texas and Texas Tech in limbo after Big 12 announcement

UTEP's football games with Texas and Texas Tech may still be on for the moment.

Big 12 presidents approved a model Monday night where each conference team plays nine conference and one non-conference home game. An official announcement came Monday night.

"The start of Conference play will be solidified in the coming weeks, with an anticipated start sometime between mid- to late-September, with the expectation that non-conference games are contested prior to beginning league games," the league said in a press release.

The fate of UTEP's Sept. 5 home game with Texas Tech, which does not fall in that time frame and now couldn't be played anywhere other than Lubbock, and the Miners' Sept.