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  • The Mean Green loss puts UTSA at 6-5 in the all-time series.
  • The loss puts head coach Seth Littrell at 44-44 in his Mean Green tenure, and he is fourth on the program’s all-time win list.
  • UNT’s captains for the game were KD Davis, Roderic Burns, Austin Aune, Manase Mose and Sean-Thomas Faulkner.
  • The Mean Green are now 9-37 when trailing at the half in the Seth Littrell era, and this was the first time UNT had trailed a C-USA opponent at the half this season and first time its trailed at half this year since Sept. 24, at Memphis.
  • The 14-point halftime deficit was the second-largest halftime deficit of the year, behind the 31-10 lead SMU had on Sept. 3.
  • Junior QB Austin Aune (Argyle, Texas) finished 14 for 29 for 194 yards, two interceptions and a touchdown pass.
    • Aune’s 194 passing yards gives him 7,086 in his career and he is in fourth place on the program’s all-time passing yardage list, 338 yards shy of Derek Thompson (2009-13) for third.
    • Aune completed passes to eight different receivers.
    • The game was just the third this season in which Aune has failed to throw multiple touchdown passes.
    • His 36-yard touchdown pass to Jyaire Shorter with 8:42 to play in the third quarter was his 32nd of the season and 55th of his career. It broke Mason Fine’s single-season program record of 31, which was set in 2017.
    • That touchdown pass also tied the all-time, single-season touchdown responsibility record of 33, set by Mitch Maher in 1994.
  • Sophomore RB Ikaika Ragsdale (Las Vegas, Nevada) had 17 carries for 108 yards and a touchdown.
    • Ragsdale’s 108-yard day marked his third 100-yard rushing day of the season and sixth of his career.
    • Ragsdale’s 2-yard touchdown run with 8:09 to play in the first quarter was his seventh touchdown this season and 12th of his career.
    • Ragsdale’s 56-yard run from the UNT 1-yard line in the final seconds of the first quarter was a career-long run.
  • Junior WR Jyaire Shorter (Killeen, Texas) finished with two catches for 48 yards and a touchdown.
    • Twenty of Shorter’s 22 catches this season have gone for a first down or a touchdown (10 touchdowns).
    • His 36-yard touchdown reception with 8:42 left in the third quarter was his 10th of the season and 19th of his career in just 31 games.
    • Shorter’s 10 touchdown receptions this season is tied for ninth on the single-season list.
    • He is the only player in the country with 10 touchdowns on less than 25 receptions.
    • In the last 15 years, Shorter is the only player in FBS with nine or more touchdowns and less than 25 catches in a season. He also accomplished the feat in 2019 when he finished with nine touchdowns on 24 catches.
  • Redshirt freshman TE Var’Keyes Gumms (Houston) finished with two catches for 13 yards.
    • Gumms’ two catches give him 33 on the season and he is second on the program’s single-season list for most receptions by a tight end in UNT history behind only Jason Pirtle (2017-21), who had 41 in 2021.
  • Senior OL Manase Mose (Euless, Texas) made his 61st straight start and is the program’s all-time leader for most career starts at North Texas. The center has started every game of his career and is in his fifth season with the Mean Green.
  • When UTSA opened the scoring with 12:04 left in the first quarter, it marked the fastest a UNT opponent has scored this season since the season-opening win over UTEP, when the Miners scored just 1:02 into the game.
  • Senior LB KD Davis (Ennis, Texas) finished the day with 14 tackles, including five solo stops.
    • Davis now has 421 career tackles and passed Byron Gross (1987-90), who finished his career with 418 total tackles, to become the program’s all-time tackles leader.
    • Midway through the fourth quarter got his 12th tackle to break record.
    • Davis now has 196 career solo tackles to move into second on the all-time list ahead of Craig Robertson (2006-10), who finished with 194.
  • Junior LB Larry Nixon III (North Richland Hills, Texas) finished the day with seven tackles, including four solo stops, and a tackle for-loss.
  • Senior DB Sean-Thomas Faulkner (Easley, S.C.) finished with 11 tackles, including six solo stops.
    • His 11 tackles tied his season high, which was previously set at UNLV.
  • Junior DB DeShawn Gaddie (Arlington, Texas) finished with nine tackles, including six solo stops, a forced fumble and a pass breakup.
    • Gaddie’s nine tackles were a new career- and season-high, besting his previous mark of eight.
  • Sophomore DB Logan Wilson (Dallas) finished with nine tackles, including six solo stops.
    • Wilson’s nine tackles were a new career- and season-high, besting his previous mark of eight.
  • Sophomore DL Roderick Brown (Forney, Texas) finished with eight tackles, including three solo stops, and a half-sack.
    • Brown’s eight tackles set a new career high, breaking his previous best mark of seven.
  • Junior LB Mazin Richards (Burleson, Texas) finished with three tackles, including three solo stops, two tackles for-loss and a pass breakup.
  • Sophomore DL Tom Trieb (Arlington Heights, Ill.) finished with three tackles, including three solo stops, and two sacks.
    • Trieb entered the game without a full sack in his Mean Green career and finished the night with 2.0 sacks.
  • Senior DB Quinn Whitlock (Pinola, Miss.) finished with 10 tackles, including four solo stops.
    • Whitlock’s 10 tackles broke his previous career- and season-high of nine.
  • Junior LB Kevin Wood (Converse, Texas) finished with seven tackles, including two solo stops.
  • Senior kicker Ethan Mooney (Fort Worth) went 2-for-2 on field goal attempts and 3-for-3 on extra points.
    • Mooney now has 325 career points and is the program’s all-time scoring leader.
    • Mooney now has 102 points on the season and is now third third all-time in single-season kicking points, trailing Cole Hedlund (2018) by six. Trevor Moore holds the single-season record with 115 in 2017.

 

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