North Texas Mean Green

Getting points, the Mean Green covered 12 of 16 times in 2025-26; laying them, 5 of 15. Only 17 Division I teams covered more often as underdogs.

Two different teams

Sixteen times in 2025-26 North Texas took points, and 12 of those games ended as covers, 75%. Seventeen Division I teams covered more often in that role, and six matched it. As favorites the picture flipped: 15 games, 10 wins, 5 covers. Forty-eight teams covered less often as favorites, with 13 at the same rate.

The moneyline

Straight up the split was smaller. The Mean Green won 7 of 16 as underdogs, and one unit on them in each lost only 0.41 units, helped by wins at UAB at +180, 62-58, and at home to Tulsa at +130. As favorites one unit a game lost 2.55 over 15, and the costliest was a 59-63 home defeat to East Carolina at -600. A 71-77 home loss to Tulane came at -290.

Across all 31 priced games the season finished 2.96 units down.

Against the line

The record was 19-14 with 17 covers in 31 lined games. They covered more often away from home than in it: 6 covers in 15 at home, 7 in 12 on the road, and 4 from 4 at neutral sites.

Conference opponents

UTSA lost both meetings and North Texas covered both. Memphis split the two games, but the Mean Green covered twice. Tulsa won two of three, the last 90-84 in the conference tournament, where North Texas still covered as +300 underdogs. Against Rice they split the games and missed the spread twice.

The total

Seventeen unders, 14 overs. North Texas scored 70.94 points a game and allowed 67.42; only 32 Division I teams allowed fewer and one the same.

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