Football Season Opens vs SMU

MeanGreen61 · April 11, 2006

Football season opens against SMU

12-game schedule features national champion Texas

By Michael Neglia

Staff Writer

April 11, 2006

The Mean Green football team will battle Southern Methodist University in its home opener in the upcoming season.

The program finalized its 2006 schedule Tuesday when it announced the team will be playing at University of Akron on Sept. 23.

The schedule has been extended to 12 games for the first time since the 2003 season, and the Mean Green’s non-conference schedule is daunting to say the least.

NT begins its regular season on Sept. 2 when it travels to Austin to face the defending national champion Texas Longhorns.

On Sept. 9, the Mean Green hosts SMU in an effort to rekindle an old rivalry between the two regional schools. The two teams last played on Sept. 12, 1992, when the Mustangs defeated NT 28-14. The Mean Green have an all-time record of 3-27-1 against SMU.

The following week, NT plays at Tulsa, another difficult game. Tulsa just finished its best season in 14 years with a mark of 9-4 with a bowl victory over Fresno State. The Golden Hurricanes plastered the Mean Green last season 54-2.

After its game against Tulsa, NT plays at Akron, a team that finished 7-6 last season and received a bowl bid, losing to Memphis 38-31.

The Mean Green then opens Sun Belt Conference play against Middle Tennessee and Florida International at home before going to Arkansas State to play the defending conference champions and Troy.

NT plays its last non-conference game of the regular season on Nov. 4 when it hosts Louisiana Tech, a team that beat the Mean Green 40-14 last season.

NT finishes the season against Sun Belt foes Louisiana-Lafayette and Louisiana-Monroe on the road with a home date against Florida Atlantic sandwiched between the two contests.

While the team seems to have improved since last season, its non-conference schedule is tough with three conference winners including the national champion.

For them to be successful in any of those games, NT will have to play spectacular, or else no one will know the team improved.

emmitt01 · April 11, 2006

This is classic NT Daily reporting. Report the schedule, which is the point of your story (or so the title would suggest), but also be sure to throw in a few jabs about how we got "plastered" by teams last season. Way to have that hometown flair to your reporting!

untbowler · April 11, 2006

This is classic NT Daily reporting. Report the schedule, which is the point of your story (or so the title would suggest), but also be sure to throw in a few jabs about how we got "plastered" by teams last season. Way to have that hometown flair to your reporting!
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I guess they should follow the reporting style of the SID and say we barely got beat by Tulsa, La. Tech, and company.

A little tired of losing these OOC squeakers by 40+ points.

He examined the schedule and said the truth, which is we got plastered by Tulsa, at least he said a good Tulsa team.

Baby Arm! · April 11, 2006

This is TERRIBLE newswriting. One the headline is just wrong, Blame that on the editor or whoever did the layout, not the reporter. We don't open the season against SMU, we open the HOME season against SMU

The article isn't much better, There is not one quote from RV, Dickey, an asst. coach, player...no body connected with the football team. This reporter couldn't find ANYONE connected with the program to get their comments on the schedule????

And if this is supposed to be a news story, whats up with the reporter opinins injected into the story? The editor should have cut the final line altogether...