North Texas Twice Could've Been the Heavyweight Champion of Football

[rcade]

I'm a fan of the College Football Belt, the national championship that's treated like boxing. You hold the title when you beat the champ and keep it until you lose. The belt changed hands last night when Texas A&M beat Alabama (insert Nelson Muntz ha ha here).

North Texas has never held the belt. We had a chance in 1965 when we played champ Arkansas but lost 55-20. We had another chance in 2006 when we lost 56-7 to Texas.

There is another belt where the Mean Green have acquitted ourselves better (worse?) -- the one passed from game loser to game loser.

There was a five-year period where the Losers Belt stayed within the Sun Belt from 2006 to 2011. The Todd Dodge-led Mean Green claimed it on December 1, 2007, with a 38-19 loss to Florida International in the final game played at the Orange Bowl. We held the belt for nine games and 336 days, giving it to Western Kentucky in a 51-40 win on November 1, 2008.

The Losers Belt has been in the MAC since 2019 and is currently held by Bowling Green State, so it may be a while before we get another shot.

College Football Belt spreadsheet

Losers College Football Belt spreadsheet

Edited October 10, 2021 by rcade