The topic of rivalries has been a prominent one when it comes to the discourse surrounding the UNT athletic program over the last decade.
UNT was once the only Texas team in the Sun Belt Conference before making the move in 2013 to Conference USA, a league the school shares with UTEP, Rice and UTSA. Some of those old Sun Belt rivalries still linger, boosted by history and the fact UNT still plays some of those old Sun Belt schools that also made the move to C-USA. Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky are among those schools.
And then there is the significant issue of geography. UNT, SMU and TCU are all located in the middle of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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