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A new weekly feature, where we look at the 5 plays that had the biggest outcome on the game. The Flames were unable to slow down the high octane Mean Green offense despite two lightning delays. Liberty also failed to convert on two of three trips into the red zone as they were routed by a very good North Texas squad, 47-7. Throughout every game, there are several moments or plays that go unnoticed, or could be overlooked. Still, they play a huge role in the eventual outcome. Let’s look at five plays that changed the direction of this game Mason Fine connects with Rico Bussey for a 22 yard touchdown pass – On UNT’s wnd drive of the ball game, Liberty’s defense had forced a 3rd and 11 from the 22 yard line. Hoping to hold them to a field goal attempt, Mason Fine had other plans as he found Bussey for a 22 yard score giving the Mean Green an early 14-0 lead. Buckshot intercepted at the goal line – In what may have been the turning point of the game, Buckshot was intercepted at the goal line as he tried to find B.J. Farrow on a quick slant. The senior WR was open, but Khairi Muhammad jumped the route ending the Flames drive that would have cut the deficit in half. Read more: http://www.aseaofred.com/dont-forget-these-5-north-texas/

Liberty Head Coach Turner Gill - Overall thoughts on the game... “I want to give God the glory. We obviously had the weather and all those things that took place. I don’t think it really distracted our guys. They were just the better football team. They executed better than we did. We didn’t make plays when we had to make them. From an offensive perspective, we just never got anything going. Most of it was us, but someof it was them. But overall, they were the better football. We just have to get better at the things we need to get better at, and that’s blocking, tackling, catching the ball, executing and doing all the things we need to do. We’ve still got a lot of good football left, and I’m excited to see how our team will respond as we move forward here in the next two games on the road.” On not taking advantage of two opportunities to score, one in each half... “Those two opportunities that we didn’t score put a little damper on some things. We still have to respond. Our defense has to respond when they have opportunities to get off the field, but they were on the field a lot. We didn’t sustain enough drives. On the running game... “Overall, we ran the ball pretty good most of the time. There’s a few times where we didn’t have success, but I think overall we had some things in the first two or three quarters where we ran the ball pretty good. Our throwing game was not on par as far as what it should be.”

To put this week in perspective, the last time UNT went 4-0 was in...1959. We went 8-0 that season (1959) before running into a loss at Tulsa in the 9th game. We went undefeated through the first 8 games of 1967, but that included a 31-31 tie with NMSU in the 3rd game of the year. Shout out to great fan @island eagle for the info!