{"id":102387,"date":"2025-12-28T05:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102387\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T05:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T05:20:07","slug":"houston-leads-lsu-21-14-in-texas-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102387\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston leads LSU 21-14 in Texas Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HOUSTON (WVUE) &#8211; Houston leads LSU 21-14 at halftime of the Texas Bowl after the Cougars took their first lead of the game right before the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lane Kiffin, LSU\u2019s next head coach, is in attendance, but Frank Wilson remains the interim coach for this game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LSU jumped to a quick 14-0 lead in the first quarter. Barion Brown returned the opening kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown. Later, on third and nine, Michael Van Buren connected with Trey Dez Green for a 23-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Houston, led by former Tulane head coach Willie Fritz, responded to tie the game at 14. The 21st-ranked Cougars then scored again before halftime to take a 21-14 lead into the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2025\/12\/28\/houston-leads-lsu-21-14-texas-bowl\/mailto:WVUE-digitalcontent@gray.tv\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> to report it. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Subscribe to the Fox 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3ijTadOgOLbGWGC1rRy9lA?sub_confirmation=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WVUE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (WVUE) &#8211; Houston leads LSU 21-14 at halftime of the Texas Bowl after the Cougars took their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9197,56,1189,27,39188,29,28,16324],"class_list":{"0":"post-102387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-cougars","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-lsu","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-bowl","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news","15":"tag-tigers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}