[citation needed] While at Southlake, Dodge helped the University of Missouri to implement his scheme.

[citation needed] The Mean Green played their home games on campus at Fouts Field in Denton, Texas.

After a tenure in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and University of Houston Cougars, Butch LaCroix, former North Texas assistant from 1987–1993, rejoins the Mean Green staff for a second duration as cornerback’s coach.

For the past four seasons at the University of Tulsa, new offensive line coach Spencer Leftwich returns to North Texas at the same position he previously held.

On August 4, 2007, North Texas unveiled changes to their uniforms during the Kickoff Cookout at the Mean Green Athletic Center.

Home games will feature the university's new kelly green on top and have the same white pants.

The most notable change is the reintroduction of a white helmet not worn since alumni "Mean" Joe Greene played for North Texas in the late 1960s.

The Sooners put up 49 unanswered points until North Texas kicker Thomas Moreland completed the first field goal of the season late in the third quarter.

[15] Coach Dodge handled the loss well and was quoted he held no ill-feelings towards to Sooners for the lopsided win.