University of North Texas Athletics
Football Announces Future Schedules
7/22/2009 12:00:00 AM | Football
DENTON, Texas (7/22/09) -- The University of North Texas Athletic Department released a portion of its future non-schedule through the 2018 season on Tuesday.
“We continue to work hard to schedule games that are both beneficial to our program and attract both regional and national recognition. Our goal is to include a recognized program with national prominence once a year. Additional games with SMU or Tulsa provide our fans not only with a chance to see our team play at home, but to travel to a regionally close site for the away games as well. The Army series also gives our fans a chance to travel to a really great place in West Point if they have never been there” Athletic Director Rick Villarreal said. “Our other goal is to have six home games for our fans to watch on a consistent basis.”
The schedule will include trips to six different Southeastern Conference schools, one Atlantic Coast Conference School, the first game against a Big 10 opponent in the history of North Texas Football there is also one Big 12 Conference school and a Conference USA opponent.
In 2010 the schedule will feature a meeting between North Texas and Clemson at Clemson’s Memorial Stadium in Clemson, S.C. The trip will mark the first time that the Tigers and the Mean Green will play in the history of the programs. The 2010 season will also feature one of the biggest home games in recent memory with Kansas State making the trip to Fouts Field.
The 2011 season will showcase road games with two SEC schools in Tennessee and Alabama and then another road trip to Tulsa to take on the perennial Conference USA contenders. The campaign in 2012 sees the Mean Green back in Baton Rouge to take on LSU before heading to Manhattan, Kansas to face off with the Kansas State Wildcats.
The slate in 2013 has a matchup between the hedges in Athens, Ga., with the Georgia Bulldogs prior to a trip to Ohio University. Ball State returns the favor from 2009 by traveling to Denton.
The Big 10 Conference makes an appearance on the Mean Green’s schedule for the first time in what will then be 102 year of North Texas Football with a trip to Iowa in 2015 and then again in 2017.
In 2016, North Texas will look to extend its record to 2-0 versus the Florida Gators, when they make a trip to Gainesville and Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
Some of the big regional matchups to watch for are alternating home and home games with Southern Methodist University and three matchups with Tulsa.
Dates and times for the games announced have not been set, but keep checking MeanGreenSports.com for those as the respective seasons get closer.
2010 2011 2012 2013
at Clemson at Tennessee at LSU at Georgia
vs. Rice at Alabama at Kansas State at Ohio
at Army at Tulsa vs. Ball State
vs. SMU vs. Tulsa vs. SMU at SMU
at Tulsa at SMU at Florida at Iowa
