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Team preview: North Texas

Editor's Note: ESPN Insider has teamed with Blue Ribbon College Football Yearbook to provide a comprehensive look at all 119 Division I-A teams. To order the complete 2007 edition of Blue Ribbon College Football Yearbook, visit www.blueribbonyearbook.com or call 1-866-805-BALL (2255).

(All information as of June 20, 2007)

COACH AND PROGRAM

For most of us, the difference between Friday night and Saturday afternoon is a few hours. But when you're a football coach, the two are usually separated by years of hard work and good fortune.

Normally, a high school coach has to latch on as a position coach at a university, work his way up to a coordinator job and hope and pray his phone rings when a head-coaching gig opens up somewhere.

But once in a blue moon, a coach will skip a step -- make the jump from leading prep stars under the Friday-night lights to leading a college team out of the tunnel and into the Sat-urday afternoon sunlight.