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The math is looking bad for every bowl eligible team to make it to a bowl this season. We could easily end of with something like this. AAC - 5 bowl teams ACC - 10 bowl teams B12 - 7 bowl teams B10 - 8 bowl teams CUSA - 7 bowl teams IND- 3 bowl teams MAC - 6 bowl teams MWC - 7 bowl teams PAC12- 8 bowl teams SEC - 9 bowl teams SBC - 6 bowl teams That's 76 bowl eligible teams for 70 bowl slots. We need to keep winning. We need to keep attendance up.

I agree, we should appreciate that the level of competition has reached the point that we have trash talking going on. However, what makes UNT special is that we have our own identity. True, this part of our DNA has made it difficult to build up our fanbase over the years, but we are making progress, a change that I believe is sustainable. In this new and rapidly evolving culture, we need to represent the values that are true to our character. We must strive to be welcoming fans. We must remember our recent past and be humble. Anybody can have idiotic, loud-mouth fans. Not many programs have a reputation for sportsmanship and class. Like our program, Denton is on the rise - from growing local businesses, to an ever-evolving world-famous music scene, we have much to offer visitors. Our University is going places - working to cultivate a reputation for research excellence and trying to attracting the brightest students. As die hard fans, we are stewards of Mean Green Nation, we need to welcome anybody and everybody that stops by. If we see things this way we will develop a culture that attracts talent, optimism, and authenticity, traits not easy to come by. UNT's laid-back charm and small-town quirkiness are what drew me to enroll, but it was only after embracing our independent character and learning to appreciate the diversity of our student body that I became enamored with my alma mater. In the end I wouldn't change anything about the choice I made; we may not have the superstructure of College Station, the well-heeled donors of Highland Park, or the alumni armies of Austin, but we do have a chance to make a choice about what we represent, the chance to resurrect our own traditions, and have fun charting our own future. Forget about 'them' and remember what UNT means to you. This year our team has worked hard to earn on-field success, so let's show them some love and enjoy what we have; a head coach of rare character, a team with tremendous heart, a shining stadium still in its infancy, and a new sense that the future is brighter than our past. To our foes I say "Welcome to Apogee Stadium, here's to an entertaining game, to keeping our teams safe, and win or lose, make sure you stop by Beth Maries before you head home." And to you, my friends and family, let's let our team's preparation and drive speak for itself on the field...

I'm worried that the turbines will kill the roadrunners before the Mean Green gets a crack at them.

I graduated from UTSA and I have never felt the need to make a post before, but I recently moved up to the Metroplex and I have yet to find any decent Mexican food around here. Please point me in the right direction because I have never had food like this before. My fiance is from Nashville and she has not been thrilled with either. I would appreciate any pointers. With that said, I think it should be a competitive game. While I hope my team wins, I believe that the UNT defense is good enough to force Soza into a few turnovers that will make the difference. I hope I am wrong though! May the best team win!

Better game may well be in Denton at the Super Pit...Mean Green women take on Texas A&M at 7PM. If you are so bummed out about the men's team, then why don't you come and join us in support of the ladies? Could use all the home court advantage we can get. A&M is going to be tough. Come help. See you at the Pit for UNT's home game Monday evening. FYI...all* seats are general admission for the ladies games this year...so, buy a ticket and come sit where you like. *floor seats are still reserved seats...all the rest are general admission.

It's game we could talk about for decades to come ...

I was embarrassed that the UNT Department of Communications faculty chose to tailgate and then pack it up and go to someone's house for a party without setting foot inside Apogee. I have no problem putting them on blast for that.

I used to be a Super Cuts guy... but then tried a chick hair salon once. Dude... they really do know what they're doing! Give it a try... you'll never go back to Super Cuts.

We have a better chance of losing this weekend.

So then we beat the Vols in the Liberty bowl, putting the series at 2-0 and they cancel their game with us in 2015 (and for the next three decades), opening up a spot for another home game. Everything always works out in the end.

Well nUTSAck, see ya later.

This, coupled with the trash talk thread, has me thinking Harry just wants to fuel a UTSA rivalry fire. ANd he's laughing all the way.

They beat Tulane with a 6-3 winning record coming into the game.

1. New Scrappy is garbage. Friend I was sitting with had the idea of bringing all the scrappy/Eppys out at all games. We've still got the costumes and there can never be too much scrappy! 2. Bad DT showed up again. 3. As much as it sucks to lose Pegram, the running game seems better split between 2 instead of 3. 4. I love Richard Abbe. With as bad as new Scrappy looks.... I've adopted him as an unofficial mascot for the team. 5. I want to see the film from the weird little helicopter camera that was flying around during the first quarter. 6. If the a-holes partying under the tents across from the tennis courts had bothered to come inside the stadium we might have #hit30k 7. The offense needs more Miller Time. 8. I want one of the "The Stand" shirts I saw a guy wearing on the front row of 106. 9. Watching Jimmy and Byrd hang out together on the sidelines is almost as entertaining as the game itself. They never seem to be more than a couple feet apart. 10. FFR clearly has some pretty solid detective skills, figured out where I sit, and introduced himself during the game. Sorry for being startled/confused during the exchange... Good to meet you. 11. I still miss the Tug/Bell 12. Our homecoming queen's blazer was pretty sweet. 13. UTEP traveled better than I'd expected.

My hat is off to Thompson for delivering this season. He is tough and is willing the team to win. What a great turnaround from last year...he did it with hard work.

THIS. Exactly this. Our football team respects what UTSA is doing over there. (We may not, but they do) They are not better than us, but neither were the Voo-Doo people. Crap happens. Every game is a bit scary at this point with so much on the line. And with the inconsistency of our offense... We need to take a deep breath and keep eyes on the prize. We are almost there.

We ruined USM's homecoming by destroying them. At halftime the Fox College Sports announcers mentioned that they had homecoming 'Royalty' as well. Don't recall an uproar. If we lose 'tradition' and gain respect and tolerance, I'm perfectly okay with this.

I was about to say... there's a subtle irony towards calling out mariachis when we have the best program and camps for it in this region of the country.

Can they also fix the ongoing ref's mic problems? Ridiculous

This game. And there is no way to stop it from happening.

I don't mind the anger and delusional thought processes (heck it actually makes me laugh) but calling our band mariachis is pretty much racism and calling Lynn Hickey a tranny is beyond disrespectful.

DMN's rankings are an absolute joke. I will wait for Dave Campbell's.

LOL. On their way to the SEC. It will only take them 2 more seasons. They aren't our rivals. Lets just beat their @ss and move on to Tulsa. #delusional

Alright, so I got to pony up to this as I am to blame for the quasi-"royalty"-debacle. In the Fall of 2010, some folks representing GLAD and Queer Liberaction wanted to run as a couple in the Homecoming Court but before they applied, they were told through various SGA and SAC channels that they wouldn't qualify to do so since there needed to be a clear Male and Female winner. There had been some moves made by these organizations in the past to rally or protest SGA into changing things, to much publicity but little efficacy. A Google or YouTube search of "GLAD, UNT, SGA" can find you a readily-viewed video of one of those protests. SGA was still running and regulating Homecoming festivities, and now these groups wanted to get change made in our normal mode and protocol. I and a few other Senators and a current Speaker agreed to help go about fixing the issue. We had meetings with each group, but more so with QL in the back room of Big Mike's; I learned more about the LGBTQ community than I ever could I think in any other circumstance and was often schooled on how my own thinking and words on the subject(s) weren't accurately reflected in the reality of these folks' lives. Our first attempt was to modify the SGA By-Laws that concerned Homecoming initiatives, art. V, § 4 and art. VI, to reflect that it was permissible to have a couple of the same gender or any couple of various gender-identity be able to represent as the HC King and Queen. Out of the Internal Affairs Committee however, it was readily looking like the notion of that being a simple vote within the Senate would fail with contention as many Senators held onto moral beliefs or notions of tradition that wouldn't allow for the change. GLAAD and QL decided then was the time to play hardball and threatened legal action both within our framework and against the University as a whole, a tactic I never quite thought was necessary or worthwhile and in hindsight probably hurt the proceedings going forward. I was the author of the legislation that became the primary focal point of contention for that academic year. Because we couldn't come to terms as the 45 Senators to hash it out, we instead moved towards going for a ballot referendum item that would be voted upon by the whole student body in the Spring General Election. For months we argued, refined, compromised, and many Wednesday evenings in various classrooms and lecture halls became five-eight hour affairs of back-and-forth. The final referendum item that was fleshed out included three various options of reclassifying and restructuring the Homecoming Court, under various "royal" titles that allowed for gender neutrality, with a few options calling for the winner(s) of the contest to represent the year-round "Miss America" style and lead charity efforts within SGA. In the 11th hour, a fourth option was added to keep the status quo and not change anything, a notion that GLAD and QL vehemently disagreed with and again threatened to call off their cooperation if such a measure was kept in. Finally by the slimmest of margins, the item passed the Senate and was ready to be installed into the election ballot. And then, things came to a head. At that point in the Spring, I had been elected within the Senate to be Speaker Pro Tempore and as such held a more neutral "front of house" position. Due to an absence, I was handling the computer used for modifying bills and other items as well. At some point, either the evening the bill passed our body or when that copy was sent back to the SGA offices, the final voted upon document was "lost". All hell broke loose. Fingers were pointed everywhere, including by and at myself. A comment I made online of an NTDaily article on the affair led to a shouting match and tears between me and the Speaker in the Vice-President's office - this is one of the primary reasons why I explicitly do not use an anonymous handle on GMG.com because I never want to face that sort of scenario again, essentially, I (hopefully) say less stupid things when it's "really me" saying them. The referendum never saw itself on a ballot, I don't recall if GLAD or QL went through on their threat of legal action, but the only recompense at the time was the then President setting up an informal poll in the Library Mall during University Day to gauge the available public on what the outcome of the referendum could've been. In the next election, certain Presidential candidates ran with an added tenant of explicitly blocking any sort of semblance of this episode happening again, in vocal favor of denying any change. In the end this whole debacle left a bad taste in everyone's mouth. I left SGA after the Fall of 2011, and SGA itself quietly voted to get out of the homecoming business altogether and handed it off to Student Activities who formed the more replete "Homecoming Crew". This body then decided on their own to use the Homecoming Court structure option that was the most watered down: organizations would sponsor single individuals, and not couples, to go after two winning places of "Homecoming Royalty"; an imperfect solution, but one that I'm ultimately okay with. -- So here's the thing: after this toil and hardship and reflecting back upon it all, I am super proud of our university, it's student body, and the leaders it elects. This campus seriously serves as a great example of democracy at both its most efficient and inefficient, with plenty of liberal, conservative, radical and calm representatives on all sides getting their voices heard. It's a slice of the actual America that's out there breathing and evolving. I have friends to this day, some of whom are on this board or are at least lurkers (Hey, Jason.), that as Senators were my primary opposition in this whole fight. Friends who I fundamentally disagree with on a variety of issues but of whom I know have a strong bond with because we each deeply, deeply love the University of North Texas, our vision of it, and our hopes for what it could and should be. So there's your background. ---- And hey, Tasty, I know my little above novella kind of contradicts the edict you laid out previously concerning borderline or outright-politically related material, but this is a part of recent UNT history and I sincerely felt it needed to be shared. ------ TL;DR : I authored the contentious legislation in SGA that eventually led to the makeup of Homecoming Court that we witnessed Saturday evening. It's certainly imperfect and had a stupid, tedious route getting there, but ultimately, I know at least my UNT experience was enhanced and I grew as person from it all.

Thank you to all of those "Mean Green Veterans" out there for your sacrifices to this country. You are the true heroes of the U.S.A. Godspeed.

I'll update the standings on Monday.

I'll take all the t-shirt fans and Johnny-come-latelys we can find.

Man and woman, man and man, woman and treefrogs. It's a strange concept to me in general to even having homecoming royalty/queens/pairs/trios/N students of consenting age at the university level. The entire concept of a homecoming court is very high school to me, and therefore of complete and utter no consequence to me. Still, though, I wish I could've taken someone other than my little cousin to the university level prom.

Here at UNT, we're classy and like to welcome our opponents with open arms and a big ol' bear hug... Some of these guys really like to hug.

Last game I'll be going to. Too loud.

Most people don't really care. TV tends to not show very much that takes place during a school's homecoming anyway. I go to the concession stands when the homecoming court is announced as I don't care about that part anyway anymore.

Luckily for us, C-USA has 6 bowl tie-ins and only 6 of the 7 "eligible" teams can be selected (UTSA can only be picked if bowls remain available). Also, our "neighbor" the Big 12 (both conferences are headquartered in Irving - although that has nothing to do with this conversation) will only have 7 teams, but 8 tie-ins (and that's if two teams don't go to the BCS). All in all, the chaos will not be coming to Denton

They finally shut that scoreboard off. Honestly, we really played a pretty sloppy game with poor penalties, overthrown passes and really looking unfocused early in the game. It sure is nice to win 41-7 and think we didn't play our best game.

They won't have to try and run up the score...

The north endzone scoreboard had a couple panels messing up for 15 minutes or so. How can we expect to be taken seriously?

You guys realize what is happening , right ?

This is so funny. smu over Rice...What a joke... DMN is such a fake and always has been.

Good luck Runner....with your bottom.

I am so grateful to my parents for making the decision to move out if San Antonio when I was only 3 years old. That way I was not there until I was old enough to have too many memories of that place.

She really is a cool person and has done a lot for the school. I'm glad to see Talons have a Homecoming king or queen for a change. I don't care about her sexual orientation. But the changing of terms to "royalty", which as I understand was not done for her, was what bugged me.

Honesty, some of those posts I read are absolutely hilarious. One guy talking about how he hasn't ever met a UNT alum, or at least not one who is proud to be an alum. Hahaha...right, there's SOOO MUCH MORE to feel prideful about down at UT...SA. So much more.

Hardly anyone in SA gives a flying fart about San Antonio Community College.

Hey roadrunners, get ready to choke on some "Mean Green" worm!

We are hoping for a coaching change?