North Texas Mean Green College Football Pregame Quote, 10/05/2021

On Missouri:

They’re a very good team. Offensively, they do a lot of different motions so you have to keep your eyes right in the run game and they have some explosive receivers, too. Defensively, they are big on the back end, are long and athletic and can run. They’re big, strong and very good pass rushers but hold themselves in the run game very well up front. They’re an SEC opponent. We know what we’re facing. It’s a great challenge but it’s a great opportunity.

If you don’t come to play in big games like that, you probably shouldn’t play football. I just want to see our guys go out and compete and play hard for four quarters. The wins and losses take care of themselves. It’s a great opportunity for us to go compete.

On how the Mean Green utilized the bye week:

We got a lot of work in and got back to fundamentals and looked at tendencies in all three phases. We worked on some things we need to do to move forward in each phase. It was a good off week. Guys worked hard, and we’re ready to get back.

On RB DeAndre Torrey:

He’s had to take a load. He’s close to over 80 snaps a game and last week we ended up being real thin. We had him and Ayo (Adeyi) at the end. One of our deeper positions in the preseason has gotten really thin. Hopefully we’ll get that back this week and take some load off Torrey … That’s DeAndre though. He wants to carry the load and compete. He loves ball and he’s reliable. He’s handled it well.