List of UTEP Miners head football coaches

Dana Dimel served as head coach of the Miners from 2018 to 2023.

The UTEP Miners college football team represents University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in Conference USA (C-USA). The Miners compete as part of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 26 head coaches since it began play during the 1914 season. Since December 2023, Scotty Walden has served as head coach at UTEP.^[1]

Eight coaches have led UTEP in postseason bowl games and played in the Sun Bowl eight different times. UTEP has a 5–9 record in 14 bowl games in which they have competed. The Miners have been conference champions twice in their history, once in the Border Conference and once in the Western Athletic Conference.

Saxon spent the most seasons (18) as the Miners' head coach and took the program to its first bowl game. The highest winning percentage by any coach is by Mike Brumbelow, who was the head coach of the team from 1950 to 1956, and went 46–24–3 (.651) in his career. The lowest winning percentage for any coach is by Thomas C. Holliday, who went 0–5 (.000) in 1921. Bobby Dobbs coached the last Miner bowl game win in 1967 beating Ole Miss 14–7. The Miners have not won a bowl game in the 57 years since Bobby Dobbs did it with his Flyin' Miners.

Key to symbols in coaches list
General		Overall		Conference		Postseason^{[A 1]}
No.	Order of coaches^{[A 2]}	GC	Games coached	CW	Conference wins	PW	Postseason wins
DC	Division championships	OW	Overall wins	CL	Conference losses	PL	Postseason losses
CC	Conference championships	OL	Overall losses	CT	Conference ties	PT	Postseason ties
NC	National championships	OT	Overall ties^{[A 3]}	C%	Conference winning percentage
†	Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame	O%	Overall winning percentage^{[A 4]}

Coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards^{[A 5]}
No.	Name	Year(s)^{[A 6]}	Season(s)	GC	OW	OL	OT	O%	CW	CL	CT	C%	PW	PL	PT	DC	CC	Awards
1	Tommy Dwyer	1914–1917 1919	4, 1	21	9	11	1	0.452	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2	Harry Van Surdam	1920	1	6	2	4	0	0.333	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3	Thomas C. Holliday	1921	1	5	1	4	0	0.200	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	Jack C. Vowell	1922–1923	2	16	8	8	0	0.500	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
5	George B. Powell	1924–1926	3	20	11	7	2	0.600	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
6	E. J. Stewart	1927–1928	2	14	5	6	3	0.464	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
7	Mack Saxon	1929–1941	13	118	66	43	9	0.597	16	14	3	0.530	0	1	0	—	0	—
8	Walter Milner	1942	1	9	5	4	0	0.556	4	3	0	0.571	0	0	0	—	0	—
9	Jack Curtice	1946–1949	4	40	24	13	3	0.638	13	10	2	0.560	1	1	0	—	0	—
10	Mike Brumbelow	1950–1956	7	73	46	24	3	0.651	25	15	2	0.619	2	1	0	—	1	—
11	Ben Collins	1957–1961	5	48	18	29	1	0.385	9	15	0	0.375	0	0	0	—	0	—
12	Bum Phillips	1962	1	9	4	5	0	0.444	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	—	—	—
13	Warren Harper	1963–1964	2	20	3	15	2	0.200	—	—	—	—	0	0	0	—	—	—
14	Bobby Dobbs	1965–1972	8	78	41	35	2	0.538	17	13	0	0.567	2	0	0	—	0	—
15	Tommy Hudspeth	1972–1973	2	15	1	14	0	0.067	1	10	0	0.091	0	0	0	—	0	—
16	Gil Bartosh	1974–1976	3	34	6	28	0	0.176	3	17	0	0.150	0	0	0	—	0	—
17	Bill Michael	1977–1981	5	48	5	43	0	0.104	2	25	0	0.074	0	0	0	—	0	—
Int	Billy Alton	1981	1	9	1	8	0	0.111	1	6	0	0.143	0	0	0	—	0	—
18	Bill Yung	1982–1985	4	46	7	39	0	0.152	3	28	0	0.097	0	0	0	—	0	—
19	Bob Stull	1986–1988	3	36	21	15	0	0.583	13	11	0	0.542	0	1	0	—	0	—
20	David Lee	1989–1993	5	53	11	41	1	0.217	5	29	1	0.157	0	0	0	—	0	—
21	Charlie Bailey	1993–1999	7	74	19	53	2	0.270	11	40	1	0.221	0	0	0	0	0	—
22	Gary Nord	2000–2003	4	48	14	34	—	0.292	10	22	—	0.313	0	1	—	—	1	—
23	Mike Price	2004–2012 2017	9, 1	116	48	68	—	0.414	30	49	—	0.380	0	3	—	0	0	—
24	Sean Kugler	2013–2017	5	54	18	36	—	0.333	11	22	—	0.333	0	1	—	0	0	—
25	Dana Dimel	2018–2023	6	69	20	49	—	0.290	10	34	—	0.227	0	1	—	0	0	—
26	Scotty Walden	2024–present	2	24	5	19	—	0.208	4	12	—	0.250	0	0	—	—	0	—

v t e UTEP Miners football
Venues	Kidd Field (1938–1962) Sun Bowl (1963–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games New Mexico State: Battle of I-10
Culture & lore	History Paydirt Pete Miners Fight Sound of the Southwest Marching Miner Regiment KROD
People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	List of seasons 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

List of UTEP Miners head football coaches

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