2015 North Texas Mean Green football team


The 2015 North Texas Mean Green football team represented the University of North Texas in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season as members of the West Division of Conference USA. They began the season with Dan McCarney as head coach, in his fifth season, and played their home games at Apogee Stadium in Denton, Texas. McCarney was fired on October 10 following a 66–7 loss to Portland State. Offensive coordinator Mike Canales was named interim head coach for the remainder of the season. They finished the season 1–11, 1–7 in C-USA play to finish in last place in the West Division.

Schedule

North Texas announced their 2015 football schedule on February 2, 2015. The 2015 schedule consist of five home and seven away games in the regular season. The Mean Green will host CUSA foes Rice, UTEP, UTSA, and Western Kentucky, and will travel to Louisiana Tech, Marshall, Middle Tennessee, and Southern Miss.

Game summaries

SMU

Overall recordLast meetingResult
5–28–12014NT, 43–6

Rice

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–32014RICE, 41–21

Iowa

Southern Miss

Overall recordLast meetingResult
4–52014USM, 30–20

Portland State

Following the 66–7 loss to FCS Portland State, Mean Green head coach Dan McCarney was fired. The 59-point margin is the biggest FCS win over an FBS team since Division I football was divided into the groupings now known as FCS and FBS in 1978.

WKU

Overall recordLast meetingResult
4–22012WKU, 25–24

Marshall

Overall recordLast meetingResult
0–11988MARSH, 7–0

UTSA

Overall recordLast meetingResult
0–22014UTSA, 34–27

Louisiana Tech

Overall recordLast meetingResult
6–72014LATECH, 42–21

Tennessee

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–01975NT, 21–14

Middle Tennessee

Overall recordLast meetingResult
8–52013NT, 34–7

UTEP

Overall recordLast meetingResult
14–6–32014UTEP, 35–17