North Texas Mean Green

No FBS team scored more than the Mean Green’s 44.77 points a game in 2025, and North Texas covered the spread in 10 of its 13 regular-season games. Both losses came as favorites of 2.5 points or less, and both were by double digits.

Favored in all 13

North Texas was laid points in every regular-season game it played, the American Championship included, a blank underdog column it shared with four other FBS teams. The record was 11-2 and the spread record 10-3, a cover rate that sat behind just three FBS teams and level with three more.

The covers did not depend on soft numbers. Six times the Mean Green laid 6.5 or fewer, and we count four covers there: 59-10 over Washington State, 45-38 at Army, 55-17 over UTSA and 31-17 over Navy. The other two were outright losses, 36-63 at home to South Florida at -2.5 and 21-34 at Tulane at -1.5 for the conference title.

Home and away

Home: six wins and six covers from seven games, a home cover rate bettered by four FBS teams and matched by five. On the road it was 5-1 and 4-2 against the number. The one win that fell short was 33-30 at Western Michigan as a 12.5-point favorite.

Price and total

Eleven games carried a moneyline; Charlotte and Temple did not. One unit on North Texas in each finished 0.74 up. The nine wins paid 2.74 between them, Army at -135 the best of it, and the two losses at -135 and -120 took a unit each.

Of the 12 with a posted total, eight went over, a rate eight FBS sides beat and eight others equalled. November was the cleanest month: four wins, four covers.

The season closed with a 49-47 win over San Diego State in the New Mexico Bowl.

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