Texas Southern on Road for North Texas Mean Green Opener

DENTON, Texas - The second season at Apogee Stadium begins Saturday night as North Texas opens the home schedule against Texas Southern at 6 p.m. The game will be televised on TXA 21 in Dallas/Fort Worth and heard on the Mean Green Radio Network.

The Mean Green fell on the road to LSU 41-14 to open the season while the Tigers won on a last second field goal over Prairie View A&M 44-41 in their season opener.

North Texas is 55-24-2 all-time in home opening games. However the Mean Green has lost seven of the last eight home openers with the only win during that time coming in a victory over SMU in 2006.

The Mean Green is looking to avoid an 0-2 start to the season for the third straight year. Since returning to FBS in 1995, North Texas has started the year out with a 1-1 record only six times, with the most recent being 2009.

GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Apogee StadiumCapacity: 30,850Playing Surface: Sportexe PowerBlade HPSeries Record: First meetingLast Meeting: First meetingIn Denton: First meeting
Radio: KHYI 95.3 FMKNTU 88.1 FMTV: TXA 21 (DFW)
Live Stats: www.MeanGreenSports.com
Webcast: www.MeanGreenSports.com




Redshirt freshman Zac Whitfield had his first career interception against LSU. It was the first interception by a Mean Green freshman since Jeremy Phillips in 2009.

Digging deeper finds that Whitfield's interception was the first by a freshman for North Texas cornerback since Antoine Bush in 2006. Additionally there were 98 players in the nation with interceptions after the first week and Whitfield was one of only seven freshman nationally to have a pick.

With 184 all-purpose yards against LSU, Brelan Chancellor sits just 240 all-purpose yards away from being in the top-10 all-time at North Texas. He would become the fifth player since 2001 with more than 3,000 all-purpose yards in their career with the Mean Green.

The North Texas offensive line did not allow a sack against LSU. The Mean Green is one of 28 teams in the nation that did not allow a sack after the first week.

Since returning to FBS (Div. I-A) football in 1995, North Texas is 5-0 against teams from the FCS (Div. I-AA). The Mean Green has only played one FCS team in the last 11 seasons, a 23-0 win over Nicholls State in 2002. North Texas also defeated Samford 41-6 in 2000, Indiana State 41-6 in 1997, Illinois State 20-14 in 1996 and Idaho State 41-38 in 1995.

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