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8. Grant Gunnell, North Texas Gunnell is listed here for North Texas, but the former Arizona and Memphis signal-caller has to beat Austin Aune for the No. 1 spot on the depth chart. Fall practice is Gunnell's first opportunity for snaps in the Mean Green uniform after spending the 2021 season and '22 spring at Memphis. Gunnell did not record a snap of playing time with the Tigers due to injury, but he previously played in 12 games at Arizona (2019-20) and threw for 1,864 yards and 15 touchdowns to only three picks over 248 attempts. The sample size is still relatively small, but Gunnell's accuracy has been on point (66.5 percent for his career). North Texas averaged under 200 passing yards a game last fall, but coach Seth Littrell hopes for Gunnell to be the missing piece and spark the downfield attack. read more: https://athlonsports.com/college-football/conference-usa-quarterback-rankings-2022

Senior offensive lineman Manase Mose anchors talented North Texas Mean Green offensive line and is one of the top returning linemen in college football. The History Mose was an underrated two-star recruit out of Euless Trinity in the 2017 cycle who chose the Mean Green over offers from Army, Navy, and Tennessee State. He was an honorable mention all-state guard during his prep career, and even made the preseason All-State team for Dave Campbell’s Texas Football prior to the 2016 season. Mose took a redshirt as a freshman at North Texas in 2017. Mose entered the starting lineup as a right guard in 2018 and was named to Conference USA’s All-Freshman team, as well as all-conference honorable mention. He started 12 games at right guard again in 2019 for a team that went 4-8. Mose was again a bright spot during a four-win season during the pandemic-altered 2020 campaign. He started all 10 games at center. Mose started 13 games in 2021 – 12 at center and one at right guard – during a six-win 2021. He was a second-team All-CUSA selection after anchoring one of the best run-blocking offensive lines in college football. read more: https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2022/08/03/the-lone-star-50-manase-mose-anchors-mean-green-offensive-line?ref=article_preview_img

What exactly was Name, Image and Likeness implemented to be? There are plenty of Group of Five football coaches asking that very question. With college football already deep into its second recruiting cycle with NIL taking up much of the talking and operating space, some coaches at smaller schools could make the argument that how it’s being utilized is splintering the sport even more than what already existed. How G5 coaches approach NIL, current players and prospective players wildly differs than their peers at most Power Five institutions that inhabit conference with lucrative TV deals and deep athletic budgets. Several P5 programs have organizations set up to practically guarantee NIL money to players once they become part of the football team. Schools at the G5 level mostly have those same facilitating groups in place, but there are no built-in guarantees. For Louisiana's Michael Desormeaux, the first-year head coach of one of the more successful Group of Five programs in recent years, NIL at the G5 level mirrors how it was intended to be. read more: https://www.theadvertiser.com/story/sports/college/ul/2022/07/31/sun-belt-football-coaches-leery-farm-system-nil-benefits/10149239002/

Woah. Is it just us, or does it feel like the Drummond kids are growing up a little faster these days?! With Paige graduating college back in May, Todd committing to play football at USD, and Alex getting married last year—there's so much worth celebrating! 🥰 Now, there's another update in the Drummond household! Bryce just shared new college football photos, wearing his new jersey! read more: https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/ree-drummond-life/a40738240/bryce-drummond-college-football-photos/

Commits to Tulsa over NT https://www.dallasnews.com/high-school-sports/football/2022/07/27/allen-ol-kasen-carpenter-announces-commitment-to-tulsa/

NORTH TEXAS In seven seasons at North Texas, coach Seth Littrell has been to five bowl games. The 2020 season deserves an asterisk because the Mean Green were only 4-5 in the regular season, but the dudes from Denton have been pretty consistent on Littrell’s watch. Last season was every bit of a .500 campaign before the loss to Appalachian State in the Frisco Classic, as UNT scored and allowed 27.5 points per game and finished even in turnover margin. Which way will the pendulum swing in 2022? Offense The team seemed more comfortable with Austin Aune as the starting quarterback than with Jace Ruder, but now Arizona transfer Grant Gunnell also has his hat in the ring. Aune led the five-game winning streak late in the year that took the Mean Green from 1-6 to 6-6 after knocking off No. 15 UTSA in the finale. The Roadrunners rested a bunch of players in advance of the Conference USA title game. Even though Littrell cut his teeth at Texas Tech in the mid-2000s under Mike Leach, this is a run-first (and run-second and run-third) offense. North Texas ran the eighth-most plays last season with 1,033 and ran 639 times. Only the three triple-option teams, Northern Illinois and Kent State ran more often. Star running back DeAndre Torrey ran for 1,215 yards and 13 touchdowns before exhausting his eligibility. Sophomore Oscar Adaway was supposed to be the starting back but tore his ACL right before the season. He’ll be the feature back now. The Mean Green rushed for 4.7 yards per carry, even though opposing defenses knew what was coming. Four starters are back on the line and the QBs are always mobile. Defense This was a slightly below-average defense by yards per play, even though they allowed fewer than 400 yards per game. It was a massive upgrade under defensive coordinator Phil Bennett, as the Mean Green allowed 522 yards and 6.9 yards per play in 2020. North Texas gave up almost 43 points per game during that weird COVID season, which is a big outlier, but the statistical improvements under Bennett are notable. He only has five starters back on this year’s defense, which allowed 5.7 yards per play and 4.0 yards per carry. The back seven only managed six picks, but North Texas recovered 12 of 23 opponent fumbles. Only six teams forced more fumbles. The fumble recoveries offset 14 fumbles lost by the offense, which is another example of why this was almost a perfectly symmetrical .500 team. Outlook More of the same seems likely for the Mean Green. They do get two bye weeks by playing in Week 0 against UTEP before facing SMU, Texas Southern, UNLV and Memphis in nonconference play. UNT draws the four best teams in this conference (UTEP, UTSA, WKU, UAB), so that puts a damper on its chances of contending in C-USA. The win total of 6.5 makes sense, as this could be a perfectly mediocre team again. However, with that schedule, my projection is actually for 5.79 wins, so I’d look more toward the Under. Pick: Under 6.5 (-120) Read more: https://www.vsin.com/college-football-betting-preview-conference-usa/

American Athletic Conference (AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco didn't shy away from voicing his concerns about the state of college football and its future during his annual media day press conference. It's not news that numerous issues have raised flags in the realm of college football and college athletics since the end of the 2021-22 seasons. In fact, Aresco listed a heavy handful, including but not limited to conference realignment; name, image and likeness (NIL) deals; the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) potentially breaking away from the NCAA; and college sports becoming too professionalized. He called it a new and challenging era in college sports, something unprecedented and unsettling, having been years in the making. Now, Aresco sees collegiate athletics at a pivotal point. Conference realignment in the FBS "It's been in the news. It's sent shockwaves through the college sports landscape, boiled the water of college sports and continues to do so. It affected the AAC last year and may again, we don't know. Three of our members – UCF, Cincinnati and Houston – will depart the conference in July 2023. We appreciate their important contributions to our conference's legacy over the last decade and we'll enjoy having them compete in the American this season." read more: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/college/university-of-cincinnati/2022/07/28/aac-commissioner-mike-aresco-speaks-numerous-issues-college-football-realignment-nil-fbs-ncaa/10173044002/

With the beginning of the season in sight, football faced the media at Conference USA media day. Head coach Seth Littrell and two players — senior linebacker KD Davis and sophomore tight end Jake Roberts — represented North Texas at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. The 2022 season will be the Mean Green’s last competing in Conference USA. “Really excited about this group — the things they’ve done in the offseason to prepare and continue to build our culture [and] our leadership, the way they’ve worked has been awesome to watch,” Littrell said. “This is always a fun time of the year getting back and around the guys.” At the end of June, it appeared that Davis would not return to North Texas as he entered the transfer portal. After visiting other universities, the senior linebacker decided to remain with the Mean Green. 2022 will be his fourth and final year in the program. Since Davis’ debut year in 2018, his performance has steadily increased in value, culminating in the senior’s first appearance on the All-C-USA First Team. Had Davis not returned, two of the three starting linebackers would have been missing from North Texas’ 2022 roster. “Since I came back throughout the spring, I was worried I wasn’t 100 percent here,” Davis said. “Going out and seeing things and coming back, I’m 100 percent in and my whole mindset has changed — my leadership has elevated.” North Texas and five other C-USA schools are moving to the American Athletic Conference next July. North Texas has not won a C-USA football title and its highest finish came in 2017 when the team lost to the Lane Kiffin-led Florida Atlantic University in the championship. With its days numbered in C-USA, Littrell said that the team is remaining focused on competing in the conference. “Conference USA is a really good conference and has a lot of great teams — a lot of great teams [and] a lot of great players,” Littrell said. “I know it’s going to be a battle throughout the season […] I got to focus on the task at hand.” Three teams have already departed C-USA en route to the Sun Belt Conference, downsizing the conference’s field to 11 teams in 2022. As a result of the departures, C-USA rescheduled its games accordingly, resulting in the Mean Green opening their season on Aug. 27 against the University of Texas-El Paso rather than a home contest against rival and future conference-mate Southern Methodist University previously scheduled for Sept. 3. With the unconventional schedule due to extenuating circumstances, North Texas will not play another conference game until Oct. 1 after the Texas-El Paso opener. “A sense of urgency has to be there,” Roberts said. “Starting week zero is already a jump that’s a different swing of things and being a conference game just puts the stakes up even more, so we got to be ready to roll.” read more: https://www.ntdaily.com/i-like-where-the-mean-green-are-football-takes-on-c-usa-media-day/#share

DENTON — The 16-time conference champion North Texas soccer team has added transfer forward Alexis Truitt to its roster on Tuesday. A rising junior, Truitt comes to UNT from Sam Houston State where she played one season and started 17 matches for the Bearkats last year. She scored two goals and had three assists in the 18 matches she played in last season. Prior to her time at Sam Houston, the Boerne, Texas, native played her freshman season at Seminole State College in 2020 where she had a monster season and was voted NJCAA DI All-American. In just 15 matches for Seminole State College, Truitt scored 15 goals and had 10 assists for 40 points to lead her team to a 14-1-1 overall record and a national top three ranking. Seminole State reached the NJCAA National Tournament but was eliminated in pool play in penalty kicks to the eventual national runner-up. "I'm excited to have Alexis a part of the Mean Green family," said UNT head soccer coach John Hedlund. "Her athleticism, speed and ability to go to goal fits perfectly into our style play." Truitt played her prep soccer at Boerne High School in the San Antonio suburbs where she scored over 100 career goals. As a senior she was voted San Antonio Express-News All-Area Team after she tied the Area record for goals with 55 to go along with 26 assists. She was named TASCO All-State and was also voted District 28-4A MVP as a senior in 2020. The Mean Green soccer team opens the 2022 season on Aug. 18 with a home match versus Abilene Christian. First kick against ACU is set for 7 p.m. CT. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+. UNT will play two exhibition matches in California before the season-opener. Contact the Mean Green Ticket Office at 940-565-2527 or by emailing ticketoffice@unt.edu for more information on UNT Soccer tickets.

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