AUSTIN, Texas—Texas-El Paso has played a lot of football in the shadows of the Franklin Mountains, tucked away in a far-flung corner of a pigskin-crazy state.

Best known for winning the 1966 NCAA basketball championship—when it was still named Texas Western—UTEP has fielded mostly losing teams since 1914, hardly daring to even dream of the success of programs such as perennial power Texas.

Until Saturday night that is, when the No. 10 Longhorns (1-0) make the 580-mile trip west to the one pocket of Texas in the Mountain Time Zone, where the whole city is gearing up for ...

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