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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/usffan on 2025-05-20 13:27:47+00:00.

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The countdown moves ~ 200 miles north from Huntsville to Denton to find North Texas (high = 87, low = 93) at #95. The Mean Green are coming off a narrow First Responder Bowl loss to (probable future Pac-12 school) Texas State, and Eric Morris returns a good chunk of last year’s defense (30th ranked returning production, offsetting the 103rd ranked offensive production to rank 79th overall in 2025). Which makes Ourlads’ projected depth chart a real head scratcher, where they propose 8 new defensive starters coming in from the portal. That portal class (ranked 95th nationally) doesn’t seem so rosy (though they do have 12 P4 guys coming in while losing 7 to P4 schools), but it’s a far cry better than their recruiting class (111th nationally - how are you that bad at recruiting when you’re in Texas?!?!?), giving North Texas the 102nd ranked incoming class this year. This is likely why they’re ranked so low (8th in the conference, and we won’t be seeing more than one other AAC team for almost another month). Then again, they have Cam Ward’s backup (Reese Poffenbarger) transferring in to play for the former Incarnate Word coach that gave Ward his start, so maybe they’ll catch lightning in a bottle. The schedule has 6 games against teams ranked much higher than them, and 6 against teams ranked much lower, so the floor is probably another bowl season. But they do avoid Memphis and Tulane in conference play, so an actual run at an AAC championship bid isn’t too far fetched.