The last time UNT met Utah State on the football field, most of the North Texas players were barely into elementary school. Current North Texas Mean Green head coach Seth Littrell was still a graduate assistant at Kansas. And North Texas was enjoying a run of four straight Sun Belt conference championships, going undefeated in conference play 2002-04, including the two years the Aggies briefly called the Sun Belt home.
A lot has changed since then. Then-UNT coach Darrell Dickey, who now has a practice field named after him at North Texas, is currently the offensive coordinator for Texas A&M.