Entering Saturday’s rivalry game against SMU, all of the pressure was on North Texas to snap the Mustangs’ three-game losing streak.
With stars Mason Fine and Jalen Guyton back in the green and white, Seth Littrell back roaming the sidelines, and a sold out crowd, this was the perfect opportunity for UNT to show they have staying power not just in Texas, but to prove they should be taken seriously as one of the better Group of Five programs in the country. A loss to SMU under first-year head coach Sonny Dykes would have been blow to the momentum being built in Denton.