pray10
July 30, 2019, 5:29pm
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With the opponent preview series almost done, I figured that our last pre-season writing series should be one that focused closer to home. I have a hard time believing sometimes we’re now 19+ years into this new century, a century that has largely...
This latest written series will cover the 19 most significant , for positive or negative reasons, Cougar football games of the 21st century. The word significant is important as I tried to choose 19 games that had a large-scale impact on the program.
There are many memorable games I won’t include, because while they were fun in the moment and in reminiscing, they didn’t have a significant impact on the program. A good example of this would be the 2009 win at Tulsa. In that game the Coogs scored a touchdown and recovered an onside kick to set up a Matt Hogan game-winning field goal, all in less than a minute of game action.
That moment was insanely fun but didn’t really change the course of that season.
In this piece, they list their honorable mentions.
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pray10
August 3, 2019, 8:54pm
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https://twitter.com/SHPawdcast/status/1157391728267149322?s=20
Ugly one to start off as they pick the last game of the Dana Dimel era: 2002 L 32-14 to USF. Things would get better though.
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pray10
August 6, 2019, 5:45pm
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pray10
August 9, 2019, 1:51pm
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pray10
August 12, 2019, 1:31pm
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fiveten
August 12, 2019, 1:33pm
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Glad I stopped by Memphis to watch this game on my way to North Carolina
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pray10
August 14, 2019, 10:30am
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Not sure why they wanted to relive this one…last year’s bowl debacle vs Army is up next
https://twitter.com/SHPawdcast/status/1161410390858903553?s=20
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pray10
August 17, 2019, 2:30pm
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The famed 2009 Texas Tech game
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I would replace this with the OU 2016 game
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pray10
August 20, 2019, 3:11pm
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Navy 2016…when everything started to go downhill in 2016
When the United States Naval Academy announced it would be joining the American Athletic Conference, I would say the Houston fan base’s reaction was a positive one. It wasn’t just for the patriotic reasons, either. In the 21st century the Midshipmen...
pray10
August 20, 2019, 3:11pm
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The comeback against LA Tech in 2011
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pray10
August 22, 2019, 3:18pm
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2010 vs UCLA…Losing 2 QBs killed our season, but it did set the stage for 2011
https://twitter.com/SHPawdcast/status/1164206011198189568?s=20
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pray10
August 24, 2019, 2:14pm
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pray10
August 25, 2019, 1:48pm
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Back to the victories…Navy in 2015
pray10
August 26, 2019, 3:08pm
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This was a fun one…Coogs go to Stillwater and knock off the #5 team in the country.
I made the decision along with several friends, current Pawdcast co-host Dustin included, the summer before the 2009 season to go see UH play at Oklahoma State. I like to tell the story about how on the drive up to Stillwater, Oklahoma at different...
pray10
August 29, 2019, 4:12pm
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2011 Tulsa…I remember being so worried about this game because we always had trouble in Tulsa. We ended up blowing them out.
In the history of Houston Cougar football up to the 2011 season only 3 teams (1973, 1979, 1990) had made it to the conclusion of the season with 1 loss. Even with an enviable run of innovative coaches for about 30 years of the program’s history...
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srassen7
August 29, 2019, 4:57pm
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I forgot how close this one was in the 1st half and how much I stressed over that.
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pray10
August 31, 2019, 3:31pm
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#4 - 2011 Championship vs Southern Miss (Otherwise known as the worst experience I’ve ever had in a stadium)
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pray10
September 5, 2019, 3:33pm
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This was a fun one: Oklahoma 2016
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