Houston’s loss to Hawai’i in the New Mexico Bowl perfectly summed up the Cougars’ 2020 season: slow start, small rally and coming up short.
The Cougars fell behind 21-0 in the first half to the Rainbow Warriors, with UH tallying only 87 total yards on offense, but the Cougars came out in the second half looking like a completely different team.
UH scored 14 straight points, cutting the deficit to seven, before Hawai’i’s Calvin Turner took a kickoff 92 yards to the house, which junior tight end Christian Trahan described as “the dagger.”
Christmas Eve’s game was in a sense, poetic, considering UH seemed to have all the momentum stripped from them right after coming back from large deficits countless times throughout the season.