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In the first game of the season against Idaho, the North Texas wide receiver unit set a new school record with 12 different receivers making at least one catch in a game. Mike Grant, who coached running backs his first two years with the Mean Green, made the switch over to wide receivers early in 2013 and has made an instant impact. Senior Darnell Smith is 23rd in the nation in receptions per game with 22 and the Mean Green is on track to have its first 1,000 yard receiver since 2008. Brelan Chancellor has set new career marks in receptions and yards. Grant has been a big part of the improved play at the position. This summer Grant spent a significant amount of time with the Buffalo Bills as an intern. Grant’s internship was part of the Bill Walsh NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship, which is an annual program administered by the NFL Management Council and NFL Player Engagement Video & More http://www.meangreensports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/091913aaa.html

Several for North Texas in this article. ODDS AND ENDS > Week 2 Game Balls: After giving up 20 points and 395 yards in the first half, things looked bleak for the Mean Green. But the UNT defense did a 180 in the final two quarters, holding Ball State to just 101 second-half yards and seven points. That was enough to allow the UNT offense to outscore Ball State 31-7 from the second quarter on in UNT's 34-27 comeback victory. Helping the UNT cause was five takeaways (three of them fumble recoveries), the last of which was an interception that ended Ball State's last drive to try to tie the game. Not surprisingly, the best defender on the field was senior LB Zach Orr (11 tackles, TFL, FF, FR), arguably the state's most under-the-radar star player. My Power Poll ballot This is what I turned into the DCTF offices for the Week 3 edition of the Power Poll. 1. Texas A&M 2. Baylor 3. Texas Tech 4. TCU 5. Rice 6. Texas 7. North Texas 8. Houston 9. UTSA 10. UTEP 11. SMU 12. Texas State The rationale for my order: Go toe-to-toe with the two-time defending champs, and you deserve the No. 1 spot in Texas. Texas Tech is creeping up on Baylor, if only because the Bears were off and Tech somewhat controlled TCU. Those Frogs are fourth, for now, but I considered placing Rice ahead of them. Texas is another loss away from dropping even more. North Texas's comeback over Ball State impressed me enough to move to seventh, maybe the highest I've ever put the Mean Green. Houston's win at Temple looks a little less sweet after Temple lost to the mighty Fordham Rams. UTSA and UTEP play this weekend, so that should settle their placement. I moved SMU to 11 and dropped Texas State to 12th; I think SMU is the better team, even if Texas State is playing up to its potential more than SMU is. > Leftovers … Very happy to see North Texas storm back to beat Ball State. I thought UNT underachieved last year, but with a 2-1 start, UNT appears to be playing up to its potential. The Mean Green are now one game ahead of DCTF's predicted five wins, and one predicted loss (at Louisiana Tech, which looks like a shell of its 2013 team) could now become a win. Third-year coach Dan McCarney needs a bowl this year, because with 13 seniors on his opening-day depth chart, next year could bring a dropoff. READ MORE http://www.texasfootball.com/college-news/view/180520

Your weekly look at which conference had the best Saturday. Conference USA is swimming in awful football teams, but they had a challenger for the worst week in college football. Conversely, the Pac-12 rolled again. Reminder: We're not talking about which conference is the best. We're talking about which conference had the best weekend 10. Conference USA You know what will guarantee you the bottom spot in a conference ranking? When you have a member (FIU) that is an underdog to an FCS program (Bethune-Cookman). And that game is a home game for your team. And your team gets blown out by said FCS member. Skip Holtz also worked his magic on Louisiana Tech, as they lost to Tulane, and Southern Miss still can't win games. http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/9/17/4738850/conference-power-rankings

What the heck............ UNT 34 Georgia 31. Mac attack nets the bulldogs.

#Top6 ?

http://ntdaily.com/hit-six-motto-spurs-unt-football-team-bowl-game/

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot/scores/live/preview.aspx?id=38882

From the NCAA site Team T#1 - Turnovers gained (11) #2 - Red Zone defense - 0 rush TDs, 3 Pass TDs, 1 FG in 8 tries Individual T#6 Forced fumbles - Laramie Lee, Zach Orr (3) T#9 Fumbles recovered - Laramie Lee, Zach Orr (2) T#16 Total tackles - Zach Orr (19 solo, 19 assist, total 32) T#43 Total tackles - Marcus Trice (13 solo, 15 assist, total 28)

After we pull ahead, will we be able to give our younger players some playing time ?

Good news for CUSA when our current contract comes up for renewal in 2015 ? A new Mid-American Conference television contract will help, providing about $1 million to each member after this year (Above is the only mention in this article) http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130915/NEWS/309150046/Miami-Campaign-signals-big-time-intentions?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

Hopefully we have already laid ours vs Ohio

Last year: #8 LSU 41 NT 14 #5 Kansas State 35 NT 21 It will definitely be a long shot, but Mac will play to WIN.

We should win all three.

DEFENSE - Opponent scoring 1st quarter - 33 2nd quarter - 21 3rd quarter - 0 4th quarter - 6 1st half - 54 2nd half- 6 OFFENSE - Mean Green scoring 1st quarter - 24 2nd quarter - 25 3rd quarter - 22 4th quarter 24 1st half - 49 2nd half 46

College Football Poll season final rankings 2002 - #52 2003 - #42 2004 - #57 http://www.collegefootballpoll.com/current_congrove_rankings.html

Last season, the Mean Green defense forced 16 turnovers in 12 games. They are nearing that total already this year with 11 – seven fumble recoveries and four interceptions http://ntdaily.com/turnovers-show-an-aggressive-2013-unt-football-defense/

http://www.texasfootball.com/college-news/view/180516 1. Texas A&M 2. Baylor 3. Texas Tech 4. Rice Adam Hochfelder: Great win over a Big 12 opponent. The second straight win for the Night Birds over (not sure what kind of bird a Jayhawk is) of Kansas. 5. TCU 6. Texas 7. Houston 8. North Texas Jake Shaw: If the Mean Green make a bowl game, they'll look back at last weekend's comeback against Ball State as one of the main reasons why. 9. UTSA Rick Epstein: The two-game losing streak will be erased when the Roadrunners beat UTEP Saturday in their first ever Conference USA game. 10. SMU 11. Texas State 12. UTEP Jake Shaw: Local product Aaron Jones looks like an emerging star, helping the Miners deal with Nathan Jeffery's nagging injury.

Lets see how this compares to Dave Campbell's week #3 power poll when it comes out. #6. Texas A&M #18 Baylor #35 Texas Tech #41 TCU #58 Texas #70 Houston #73 Rice #80 North Texas #86 Texas State #96 SMU #99 UTSA #116 UTEP

I sent him an e-mail regarding the comment. Just got a reply back basically denying he said NT had never beaten an SEC team by referring me to his "rarely beaten" correction. I guess if it disappears it can be denied that it was said.

Massey actually now has North Texas at #82. http://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm

Don't believe folks are really worried about which bowl, but it's nice to be discussed as a potential bowl participant. That hasn't happened in a while.

It is CFN.

EAST Marshall Middle Tennessee ODU FIU FAU WKU Charlotte (2015) WEST North Texas Louisiana Tech Rice UTEP UTSA USM UAB With 14 teams, don't need to add any more

Yes

College Football News - Mean Green to Hawaii http://cfn.scout.com/2/557866.html