Until this week, no Football Bowl Subdivision team had gone as long as North Texas without appearing in The Associated Press poll. The Mean Green scoring machine was No. 22 after the votes were counted, giving the school its first ranking since Dwight D. Eisenhower was U.S. president, Hawaii was a new state and a gallon of gas cost 31 cents. The year was 1959, when UNT was known as the Eagles and nearly a decade before “Mean” Joe Greene, the program's most famous alum, became the dominant defensive lineman of his era.
