Here’s a game you never expected to be featured: the 1995 UH-SMU game. It was a 17-0 game before the teams combined for 36 points in the final 6.5 minutes.
It was also my first-ever UH game, thanks to Mr. Harry Traverso (baseball '47-49).
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Bad memory, dark days for the Coogs.
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Helton was a nice guy if you personally knew him away from the field, but he wasn’t good as a head coach.
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95 was probably the first year I started going to games on a regular basis I think they got smashed against Baylor the home game before this and that was so bad we left at halftime with the Coogs being down 35-0. It was a stunned Astrodome when the Coogs won that night against SMU.
The last SWC game ever played was UH vs Rice, in 1995.
Our Cougars won the last SWC game ever played.
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Otis Grant played in that game and later that evening played in the basketball game. I was at both.
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Homecoming. 2011. Throwback uniforms. Case Keenum. NCAA record.
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Boy, i remember that game. We had a bad team that year and were down 17-3 late in the game, but rallied and won 18-17. I remember watching some Rice fan so angry that he picked up a metal garbage can and threw it over the side of the stadium. Kim didnt do a lot, but he did win that game, the last SWC game ever played…
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We scored late in the game and this was before overtime so instead of settling for a tie Helton went for 2 and we won the game,
Sixty years ago today, the Houston Veer was born.
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This story goes more into the entire 1965 season, including debuting in the Dome, installing the Veer, beating Ole Miss for the first time, and UH’s first-ever win against a top-10 team:
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By the by this was 60 years ago and The Veer,of course, has a running QB.
We have noticed the great running of Weigman,and how it is a game changer.
Not exactly a new idea. Yeoman invented the running QB at UH. 60 years ago.
Today, in 1969, Houston beat Ole Miss for the second time in 364 days. The Rebs were ranked No. 17 both times.
“Houston was good. Real good…We had more trouble against Houston than any team,” Ole Miss QB Arch Manning said.
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Your first game in person? Too bad you did not witness/admire the Run N Shoot in person. Some of these games were like surgical precision. HC John Jenkins was a perfectionist. There were some games that you felt nobody could stop us. I have very rarely seen games like that in college or pros.
Can anybody imagine what the Run N Shoot could have been free of any lingering probations? UH was the Run N Shoot and with the probations the Run N Shoot was kicked to the curb. We will never know how successful it could have been with our Coaching staff able to recruit who they wanted to recruit. At least we made history.
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Highly important post for anyone not recognizing UH full potential. Regularly in the 60’s and mid 70’s we beat blue blood programs as an independent. We became such a National power to be reckon with that the sec was indeed looking at us. Some have written that we never got a written invite. The internet did not exist in these days but why would blue blood sec teams schedule UH on a regular basis? HC Bill Yeoman had one goal in mind, same with our leaders. Get into the SWC. So in plain terms we never pursued and sec invite. We can’t rewrite history but obviously this is the biggest mistake we ever made. Mistake is a “stretch” word since playing against our neighbors made the most sense at the time. Fast forward to 2025 we were indeed wrong since both uta and atm are in the sec today. This mid 60’s mid 70’s time period is probably as close to what we are experiencing today with HCWF. We were independent of these two schools then and so are we today in the BIG12. I was not even here then but I have a feeling that history is repeating itself.
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I did not realize that the Coogs did not win a game outside of Houston the entire time I was at UH (1991-1996).
Hell, we barely won any games IN HOUSTON while I was a student.
UH won 12 games total in the five years I was in school (2.4 wins/year for you statisticians).
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That is what uta/ncaa probations do to you.
On the first win outside Houston since 1990 is not quite right. We won against smu in 1994:
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I think Dallas is considered one of our northern suburbs at this point… 
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Those Helton teams in 93,94 and 95 were nightmarishly bad. 4 wins in 3 years. And Dimel was not much better. even going winless his 2nd year 2001.Thank God we made the right hire in 2003. Coach Briles told me things were so bad, he absolutely HAD to win to save the FB program…Which he did. I will always be grateful to him for that.
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Yes these admin people were…not a strong enough word for them. I went to their office many times. Not to shake their hands. Firing HC John Jenkins was the absolutely worse thing we could have done.
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