'We didn't flinch': UTEP digs deep to overcome Florida Atlantic

There's an axiom around UTEP football that even in the best of times, matters will be harder than they have to be.

So it was in the latest best of times, a 24-21, last-play victory against Florida Atlantic where the Miners had to overcome one of the most unlikely, craziest turns of fortune in the strange history of the program.

Nonetheless, 4 minutes, 36 seconds after FAU was awarded a do-over on a game-tying extra point, UTEP showed some mettle it hasn't always shown. Over the final 13 plays, UTEP marched 65 yards to clinch the victory on Gavin Baechle's walk-off 27-yard field goal, the 51st of his career that gave him the school record.

"The effort those guys gave late in the game on field…