What was the worst UH football team of all time?

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I recall in the '01 Season, the marketing ploy was to entice fans to buy tickets to the first three games of the season under “UH vs. the State of Texas” or some such, as our first three games (all at Robertson) were with Rice, Texas, and TCU, respectively. They even had a t-shirt made up for this theme with all teams on it. Granted, the old memory is a little fuzzy these days but:

  1. Does anyone else remember that?
  2. Does anyone who bought the shirt still have it?
  3. Does anyone who still has the shirt still wear it?
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The 2001 season was the first year I attended games and we would spend most of the first half figuring out where we were going to party after the game and then after halftime we would slowly trickle there.

I have better memories of the 2002 season that was the first year I attended ALL the home games I remember running under the stadium from endzone to endzone to be on the right end during the 3OT lose to ECU, security tried to stop us during the 1st couple overtimes, but by the third they were moving stuff so we would not trip, and I remember the upset of Louisville in Dimel’s last game I don’t know if it had already been announced or what but the team knew it was his last game. Back then we had to learn how to enjoy football without worrying about winning.

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My worse memory of Houston Cougar football was October 10, 1998 Robertson Stadium against Army.

We got beat by a bad Army team 38-28. It was the first time in my Coog fandom that I didn’t care anymore. I sat in Robertson and actually didn’t care.

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That game elicited so much frustration that my Coog friend and I had to retire the whiskey flask because we both just lost it.

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I was at that game.

Yeah. It was bad.

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It’s pretty hard to be worse than 0-11. I guess now that there’s 12 seasons an 0-12 season would be worse, but they only had 11 game seasons then.

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That team gets my vote as the worst!

There’s no excuse for getting blown out by UAB, Army…and other bad teams en route to our only winless season!

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The 1986 team may not have been the worst, but it was most painful to me.
It was my 1st year as a student.
It was the end of Yeoman’s career.
I went to all home games and many away games, but I didn’t go to the one game we won.
We lost to Rice for only the 2nd time in SWC history and 4th time overall. And someone can correct me, I believe we lost by only 1 point on a missed XP to end the season.

Luckily i had enough fun that i kept coming back and got to enjoy the R&S era before i graduated.

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At the rate things are going, we’ll be adding the 2024 team to 1993, 1994, 2001 and 1986.

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0-11 under Dimel, 1-10 under Helton, and 1-10 in Yeoman’s last season were the worst that I can remember.

But at least this team beat Rice.

Can’t say the same for those three.

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Helton’s first two teams were the worst with the 0-11 a close 2nd.

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We did lead Whorn 14-10 before halftime as Bleacher-gate ensued. Give them some credit.

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30 year record and counting?

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We won a conference title 2 years later with a win over Southern Miss and a domination of LSU at LSU through 3 quarters. Antoine Smith was drafted into the NFL and had a long career. It wasn’t totally hopeless or talentless.

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Why revisit the worst UH teams when I saw them live?

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Who is this team most similar to in comparison to 86, 93,94 and 01?

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How about worst UH big 12 team?

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5 Worst UH Coaches by Win%
Dana Dimel: 8-26 (.235) 2000-2002
Kim Helton: 24-53-1 (.314) 1993-1999
Jewell Wallace: 7-14 (.333) 1945-1947
Hal Lahar: 24-23-2 (.510) 1957-1961
Dana Holgorsen: 31-28 (.525) 2019-2023

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In case yall were wondering as well Fritz was .486 at Tulane.

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Fritz was 54-47 (.535) overall at Tulane.

He was 31-33 (.484) in conference play.

His last season is what got him over the .500 overall mark.