sentences:  In December of that year, North Texas hired the previous offensive coordinator at the University of North Carolina, Seth Littrell, to take over.The Mean Green improved by four wins in Littrell's first year at the helm, and despite having a 5-7 record, Academic Progress Rate scores from the previous year allowed the team to compete in the 2016 Heart of Dallas Bowl after there weren't enough 6-6 programs to fill all of the bowl game slots.2017 and 2018 proved to be two of the best consecutive seasons the program had seen since the Hayden Fry era.