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North Texas battles Middle Tennessee to the wire, wins 33-30

“We are so lucky to be able to watch this kid play football.”

One of the closing comments from your play-by-play team on Stadium Sports, they were referring to North Texas quarterback Mason Fine, who just minutes earlier had completed a near-impossible pass to Jaelon Darden at the six yard line.

At the start of the day, these teams seemed almost evenly matched. Both 1-1 in conference play, both 2-4 overall, with both wins coming against an FCS squad and a conference opponent. Even with UNT favored by 7.5 coming into the game, they looked just bad enough against Southern Miss last week— during which both Fine and Tre Siggers left with injuries— that this game really could have gone either way.