No respect: The Athletic predicts North Texas will upset Army....

[OptionThis]

Per that magazine's weekly predictions:

"No. 25 Army (-5.5) at North Texas

The Black Knights are one of five remaining FBS unbeatens and are outscoring opponents by 26.6 points a game. The problem is six of those seven FBS wins are against teams with losing records. North Texas is by far Army’s toughest opponent yet. The Mean Green have the highest-scoring offense in the American Athletic Conference and lost shootouts at Memphis and Tulane in their previous two games.

Army coach Jeff Monken said Daily, his starting quarterback, could be back after missing the win over Air Force last week. I’m not sure it matters here. North Texas quarterback Chandler Morris puts up huge numbers every week and he will do so again (350-plus passing yards, three TDs) in an upset win."

[wpgrad]

I think we'll be fine with Daily if we can do our sustained drives...but I don't see our AF offense from last week having any success with North Texas if QB1 is out.

[Dong Fong '09]

Offense needs to be buzzing otherwise I think we lose. Going to be hard to hold UNT to like 14 points. We will need to score and control the ball

[gabn92]

I don't think North Texas' run defense is anywhere as good as AF's...even as bad as AF is this year. They're still VERY familiar with defending the Army offense. North Texas is not, and has not faced an option team this season. Whether it's Daily (hopefully!) or Coleman, I think Army offense moves the ball fine on Saturday. If it is Coleman, he will have had a complete game plus a complete week of prep heading into this week's game...something he didn't have when he made the start last week. I also think the coaches kept the game plan simple last week, given Coleman's situation as well as the assessment of AF and what was needed to beat them. Think we'll see a bit more of the playbook this week.

Love to see Army prove the Athletic's sportswriters wrong!

[USMAPAFAN]

NT is used to a lot of possessions. We can cut Down on that with ball control. If we can somehow also force a turnover or 2 we will win this game. Obviously we need to protect the ball. I don’t see NT’s defense stopping our run game. Would love to see this game in the 20’s. If that happens I think we take it.

[WrekDivr]

UNT scored on 6 of their 11 drives vs. Tulane. Just over half. They will get fewer possessions vs. Army. If we get a turnover and score on over half of our drives, we get a win. With UNT’s D, that should be doable.