The Sun Bowl battle between the 2-6 UTEP football team and the 5-3 Jacksonville State Gamecocks doesn't rate highly on the national scene, but there is one notable matchup: The nation's leading rusher, JSU's Cam Cook, against the nation's third-leading tackler, UTEP linebacker Micah Davey.

That is part of a larger showdown between Jax State's elite rushing offense against a UTEP defense that has been solid against the run much of the year.

While the Gamecocks come in with a 4-0 record in Conference USA, their average margin of victory in those games stands at 7 points and their wins against windless-in-conference Sam Houston State and Middle Tennessee came by a combined five points.

Perhaps because of that, UTEP is only a 1 1/2-point home underdog against Jacksonville State, which i

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