It’s a new era for both parties involved. Neither team belongs to the same conference it did when the Cougars and Roadrunners clashed in the Alamodome last September. On July 1, Houston reassigned its membership from the American Athletic Conference to the Big 12, while UTSA filled the AAC vacancy and departed from Conference USA.
TDECU Stadium is now Big 12 country, and that will be the setting of this two-year non-conference series. Last year’s clash in San Antonio lived up to the hype in every sense imaginable. Houston roared back from 14 down in regulation, took a 3-point lead in the waning seconds, but UTSA responded with a hyper-speed drive to extend the game into overtime.