2003 New Orleans Bowl Memphis vs UNT

[NorthTexasSportsNetwork]

I know today has been busy and exciting with recruiting, but I was on YouTube and this game popped up on my recommendations! 

17 years ago today, we played in our 3rd straight bowl game. A very much improved Memphis team beat (in my opinion) the best overall North Texas team since 2013.

NT didn’t quite take advantage of the situations given like Cobbs falling on what could’ve been a huge TD run.

Really wish we could see another NT team like this, but you never know.

[PlummMeanGreen]

Here I go again about the past, but Fry’s last game as the UNT HFC was against the U of Memphis Tigers on a cold, frosty night at old Fouts Field.  It was a Mean Green win & the only time I saw us beat UM.  

Some of us actually thought we had a chance to get an invite to the Astro-Bluebonnet but—no dice.  Old SWC fossil Tex Thornton was its Executive Director for a hint why. 

PS:  This was the Astrodome for a UH Band Day, circa, 1966.  ❇️ UNT played 1 game vs the Coogs in the ‘Dome. 
 

GMG!

Edited December 16, 2020 by PlummMeanGreen

[meangreenacct]

57 minutes ago, NorthTexasSportsNetwork said:

I know today has been busy and exciting with recruiting, but I was on YouTube and this game popped up on my recommendations! 

17 years ago today, we played in our 3rd straight bowl game. A very much improved Memphis team beat (in my opinion) the best overall North Texas team since 2013.

NT didn’t quite take advantage of the situations given like Cobbs falling on what could’ve been a huge TD run.

Really wish we could see another NT team like this, but you never know.

I was there for that game, the only bowl game I could afford to attend as a broke college student who was there for the 2001-2004 run. Totally thought we had a great shot and let the game disappointed thinking what could have been...

[meanrob]

Game totally turned on a questionable holding call