The 2025 season is undoubtedly the best in the not-so-hallowed, 61-year history of North Texas football. That won't stop Mean Green fans from feeling major disappointment Friday night.

The Yulman Stadium lights briefly went out midway through a second-quarter North Texas drive. They went out on the Mean Green’s season two hours later. UNT’s historic season ended just shy of the College Football Playoff with a 34-21 loss to Tulane in the American Conference championship game Friday night.

North Texas has hired Neal Brown as the next leader of the program, the school announced Tuesday. Brown, 45, has 10 years of head-coaching experience -- six at West Virginia and four at Troy -- and spent this season as a special assistant for Steve Sarkisian at Texas.

It's considered a miracle run for the Mean Green, and who better to talk about that than the school's football legend, Mean Joe Greene. He sat down with CBS News Texas' J.D. Miles for an exclusive interview.

The team’s head coach is moving on after three seasons, and the infrastructure Eric Morris built may go along with it.

Drew Mestemaker went from unknown high school backup to one of the best quarterbacks in college football. How he rose to stardom at North Texas.

Indiana earned the top seed in the 12-team College Football Playoffs after its historic Big Ten championship win.