UNT keeps its focus and its winning streak

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If ever there was a time to celebrate, Saturday night seemed like it for North Texas.

The Mean Green hammered UTEP 41-7, winning its fifth straight game and tacking on its seventh win after becoming bowl-eligible the week before by knocking off Rice.

The run has landed the Mean Green in first place in Conference USA’s West Division.

UNT head coach Dan McCarney must have celebrated for a while. Or at least we think he did, maybe just a little, probably in the Mean Green’s locker room deep inside Apogee Stadium.

By the time he made it to his news conference a few minutes after the Mean Green finished off the Miners, McCarney was all business again.

“Is it something you dream about, hope for and work toward — to be in first place the last week of November?” McCarney asked. “Of course. It has been hard to get here, but all that stuff can go right down the drain if we don’t prepare.”

And thus the return to the grind was complete.

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