We are the mean green nation.
UNT offers a long tradition of athletics, growing stronger every year. In our first year in Conference USA, our Mean Green Football team won the Heart of Dallas Bowl, kicking off a new era for excitement. UNT’s new state-of-the-art Apogee Stadium serves as a community rallying point, bringing fans together as they cheer their hometown football team to victory. And whether our athletes are on the field or in the classroom, they’re striving for greatness.
Athletic Impact
UNT joined Conference USA in 2013, bringing the university a higher level of competition and better reflecting our academic quality.
- 16: UNT offers 16 sports as an NCAA Division 1 school — the highest and largest division among colleges and universities.
- $20 million: UNT’s Apogee Stadium — a state-of-the-art athletic and entertainment complex with seating for 31,000 fans — received a $20 million naming sponsorship.
- 30: The Mean Green have won 30 conference championships since 2000.
- HIGHEST: The Mean Green Football team earned the highest grade point average of all Conference USA schools in Fall 2013.
Mean Green Pride
Athletic standouts include football legend “Mean” Joe Greene, who played with the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers, and Tony Mitchell, selected in the 2013 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons.
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Traditions
- The Mean Green Machine — a green 1929 Ford Model A Tudor Sedan — helps raise spirit at games and special events.
- The UNT student body voted in 1922 to name the Eagle as UNT’s mascot — beating out the dragon, hawk and lion. Members of the Mean Green Nation affectionately call our Eagle mascot Scrappy.
- Boomer the muzzleloader cannon is fired by the UNT Talons at football games to signal scores.
- After victories by UNT varsity teams, green lights shine on McConnell Tower at the Hurley Administration Building.