Does Houston have the experience to surprise in 2026?
Josh Pate identifies Houston as a sleeper with Connor Wegman, a top-10 portal class, and one of the Big 12's oldest rosters -- noting that their week 3 road test at Texas Tech will tell us if the Cougars can compete for the conference title. Subscribe to "Josh Pate's College Football Show" on YouTube .
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Is the other one that I wanted to circle back on.
They open against Oregon State, but in general Connor Wegman with a top 10 portal class around him, Makai Hughes getting his shot at running back.
It's one of the oldest teams in the Big 12 and they got that road test at Texas Tech in week three on a Friday night.
That's the first time America will see Houston this year.
They may go up there and get run and at that point you kind of forget about them.
But they may go up there and really, really compete too.
And they may end up on everyone's radar and if they beat Texas Tech to start conference play and they go to Again it looks like a typo but it's not.
Houston goes from playing in Lubbock, Texas to Statesboro Georgia in back-to-back weeks just a dereliction of scheduling duty i'm sure they're happy to have them in statesboro but my goodness so if they were to beat texas tech you would look at the rest of their schedule and you'd say there is no tougher task there's no bigger test on this schedule and now we got kind of a game and a half lead on texas tech houston could make some noise
