Houston Cougars Season Prediction, What Will Happen
Is this going to be one of those teams that everyone loves before the season starts – (cough) 2021 Indiana or (wheeze) Iowa State (cough) – and then struggles to play up to the caught-magic-in-a-bottle success of before?
Nah, but it has to avoid that strange clunker of a loss that almost always tripped up the better Cougar teams over the years – except for last season.
Houston has the talent. There’s a great base helped by a whole lot of transfers who now want to be part of the fun, but there isn’t 2021 Cincinnati NFL talent.
What there is, though, is a 2021 Cincinnati light and breezy schedule, only without that one massive Notre Dame-like game to overcome.
Set The Houston Cougars Regular Season Win Total At … 10
Really, who did Houston beat last year? Auburn in the Birmingham Bowl?
It was a losing year for the Tigers – who were still getting their breath back after totally choking away the Alabama game – and it still took too much drama to pull out the 17-13 win.
Really? Beating SMU was a thing? Memphis? East Carolina? Those three were all home games, by the way.
Give the Cougars respect for the Auburn win, but they lost the opener to Texas Tech by 17 and failed to hold up against Cincinnati when the American Athletic Conference Championship was on the line.
Okay, so this Houston team would maybe catch a beating in the SEC West or Big Ten East this year – sound familiar, 2021 Bearcat fans? – but it’s not in those divisions.
It’s going to be favored in every game but the road trip to Texas Tech, and even that might be debatable.
Maybe going to Memphis will be rough, and maybe SMU finds an extra gear at home, and going to East Carolina will be scary, but come on.
Houston, if it’s time to think big-time the year before going to the Big 12, beat Texas Tech, beat Kansas, and roll through a slate without Cincinnati or UCF.
With this team and this slate, another double-digit win regular season is a must. And with this team and this slate, yeah, go ahead and say it …
Dream of 13-0 and put the heat on the College Football Playoff committee.
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