{"id":102455,"date":"2025-12-28T06:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102455\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T06:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:47:11","slug":"uh-cougars-beat-lsu-tigers-in-texas-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/102455\/","title":{"rendered":"UH Cougars beat LSU Tigers in Texas Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gettyimages-2253751947-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Conner Weigman #1 of the Houston Cougars warms up before the game against the Louisiana State Tigers during the Kinder&#8217;s Texas Bowl at NRG Stadium on December 27, 2025, in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; A late-game touchdown wasn&#8217;t enough to push LSU (7-6) past the University of Houston (10-3) at the Texas Bowl in Houston on Saturday night, with the Cougars pulling out a 38-35 win against the Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>   Houston player highlights <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gettyimages-2253751946-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Conner Weigman #1 of the Houston Cougars warms up before the game against the Louisiana State Tigers during the Kinder&#8217;s Texas Bowl at NRG Stadium on December 27, 2025, in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Conner Weigman of the Houston Cougars had 236 passing yards as quarterback to score four touchdowns. Weigman led the team in passing yards, and had 27\/36 completions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Dean Connors led Houston in rushing with 126 yards, making 16 carries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Tanner Koziol led in receiving with 76 yards. He received nine times in total, and made a touchdown just before the half.<\/p>\n<p> LSU player highlights <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gettyimages-2253751965-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Michael van Buren Jr. #11 of the Louisiana State Tigers warms up before the game against the Houston Cougars during the Kinder&#8217;s Texas Bowl at NRG Stadium on December 27, 2025, in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Michael Van Buren Jr. led the team in passing yards with 16\/26 completions. He had 267 passing yards in total.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Harlem Berry led for rushing with 45 yards, and made three carries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Trey&#8217;Dez Green led for receiving with 80 yards, receiving four times and making a touchdown in the first quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the NCAA.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/ncaa-football\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">College Football<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/organization\/uofh\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Houston<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Conner Weigman #1 of the Houston Cougars warms up before the game against the Louisiana State Tigers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,2469,1827,154,216,29769,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-102455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-organization","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-uofh","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102455","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=102455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}