In its fifth season under head coach Hayden Fry, the team compiled a 10–1 record.
The team played its home games at Fouts Field in Denton, Texas.
[9][10] In the first meeting between the two teams at Texas Stadium, the Mean Green ended a 44-year drought against the Mustangs.
Coach Hayden Fry earned a victory over the program that had controversially dismissed him in 1972.
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