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DRC Sunday column: UNT fans may hate the idea of it, but UTSA is the rival the Mean Green have long needed and now have

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This is flat out false when it comes to UTSA. The series has been super competitive with both teams taking a turn playing spoiler (UTSA in 2013 and UNT last year).  ITS A RIVALRY! EMBRACE IT! 

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UTSA is not a rival.  It's just a conference member.  If we weren't both moving to the AAC would anyone -want- to continue to schedule the game?  No.  And that's the difference between competition and

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5 hours ago, Green Mean said:

I didn't feel they were a rival in the beginning, but it has morphed into a rival because we've been conference mates for a while and there have been quite a few memorable games. It's at least happened organically which was not the case years ago.

We're allowed to have more than one rival. SMU is certainly a rival now if we weren't already for being in the same conference.

Hell, we can have 12 rivals…but only one of them cares enough to call us their rival.

 

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On 10/16/2022 at 9:30 PM, NorthTexasWeLove said:

Start beating SMU consistently and see how fast and how much they start hating us. Until then, they have no reason but to view us as the red headed stepchild. 

That starts with demanding success from Head Coaches.  Stop worrying about trying to keep a good coach past 5 years.  UTSA has built a program that can rebound after a great coach is hired away.  The rivarly starts when we beat a SMU team in Ford Stadium that finishes the season bowl eligible.  

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4 hours ago, rcade said:

We could do a lot worse than UTSA as our biggest rival.

Many years ago the NCAA Football game had a feature declaring your school's rival.

Ours was chosen as New Mexico State.

I don’t see how NMSU was branded as our rival back then. We’ve won 9 of the last 10 we played against them and 18 of the last 20. MTSU was way more competitive and the UTSA is closer still.

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1 hour ago, rcade said:

We could do a lot worse than UTSA as our biggest rival.

Many years ago the NCAA Football game had a feature declaring your school's rival.

Ours was chosen as New Mexico State.

Some fun facts. We have played SMU, Texas State, and New Mexico State more times than any other teams.

http://mcubed.net/ncaaf/series/nt/index.shtml

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8 minutes ago, letsgiveacheer said:

Some fun facts. We have played SMU, Texas State, and New Mexico State more times than any other teams.

http://mcubed.net/ncaaf/series/nt/index.shtml

Of the top 5, ULM is easily the most competitive series, all four others are pretty uncompetitive historically.

http://www.winsipedia.com/louisiana-monroe/vs/north-texas

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3 hours ago, Cr1028 said:

I don’t see how NMSU was branded as our rival back them. We’ve won 9 of the last 10 we played against them and 18 of the last 20. MTSU was way more competitive and the UTSA is closer still.

There were some nail biters, for sure.  Close games that came down to final possessions.  IIRC, a win by more than 10 points was the exception.

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On 10/17/2022 at 2:30 PM, keith said:

Vito still pimping for UTSA...some things never change.  If we were not in a conference with them or somehow moved to another conference, I doubt we'd be looking to schedule them for an annual matchup.

Agree.  Vito promoting an opponent as a rival for his bait-clicks does not make them a rival. 

Next week he will have WKU as our rival.

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