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2008 North Texas Mean Green football team

2008 North Texas Mean Green football
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Conference Sun Belt Conference
2008 record 1–11 (0–7 Sun Belt)
Head coach Todd Dodge
Offensive coordinator Todd Ford
Offensive scheme Spread option
Defensive coordinator Gary DeLoach
Base defense 4–3
Home stadium Fouts Field
(Capacity: 30,500)
Seasons
← 2007
2009 →
2008 Sun Belt football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
Troy $   6 1         8 5  
Louisiana–Lafayette   5 2         6 6  
Florida Atlantic   4 3         7 6  
Arkansas State   4 3         6 6  
FIU   3 4         5 7  
Middle Tennessee   3 4         5 7  
Louisiana–Monroe   3 4         4 8  
North Texas   0 7         1 11  
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2008 North Texas Mean Green football team represented the University of North Texas in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season was the team's second under head coach Todd Dodge. Gary DeLoach was hired in the off-season as the new defensive coordinator replacing Ron Mendoza. The Mean Green played their home games on campus at Fouts Field in Denton, Texas.

Schedule from MeanGreenSports.com

Kansas State overpowered North Texas on both sides of the ball, scoring on six of its first seven possessions to take a 42–0 lead, holding the Mean Green to 205 total yards—81 in the first half. Kansas State quarterback Josh Freeman threw for three touchdowns and rushed for another two. Quarterback Giovanni Vizza completed 16 of 29 passes for 100 yards, including the Mean Green's only touchdown of the game, a 9-yard pass to Alex Lott late in the third quarter.

This game will be just the second meeting between both teams with the first meeting happening in 1988 when North Texas defeated Rice 33–17 in Houston.


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