As the campus eagerly waits for kickoff between the UH Cougars and the University of Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday, The Cougar dives into its archives for other instances where the two teams faced off.
We found two occasions. Neither time did the Cougars come out victorious.
The first meeting was in the 1981 Sun Bowl, after the Cougars won seven games and finished third in the conference under iconic head coach Bill Yeoman. The game was only 10-7 in the Sooners’ favor at the end of the third quarter.
The Sooners then broke through the inconsistent Houston defense and rattled off 30 points in the final quarter, to give them a 40-14 win.