{"id":434711,"date":"2026-09-13T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T12:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434711\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T12:20:13","slug":"uh-football-cougars-roll-past-southern-for-biggest-win-since-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434711\/","title":{"rendered":"UH football: Cougars roll past Southern for biggest win since 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southern U.<br \/>\n0<br \/>\n0<br \/>\n6<br \/>\n0<br \/>\n\u2014<br \/>\n6<\/p>\n<p>Houston<br \/>\n28<br \/>\n21<br \/>\n21<br \/>\n7<br \/>\n\u2014<br \/>\n77<\/p>\n<p>First Quarter<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">HOU_Overmyer 9 pass from Weigman (Dimas kick), 8:59.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">HOU_Sanford 9 run (Dimas kick), 6:52.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">HOU_Hughes 1 run (Dimas kick), 4:11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">HOU_A.Thomas 8 pass from Weigman (Dimas kick), :28.<\/p>\n<p>Second Quarter<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">HOU_K.Young 43 pass from Weigman (Dimas kick), 10:57.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">HOU_K.Young 7 pass from K.Henderson (Dimas kick), 6:10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">HOU_Hebert 20 pass from K.Henderson (Dimas kick), 1:36.<\/p>\n<p>Third Quarter<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">HOU_K.Henderson 54 run (Dimas kick), 13:43.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">HOU_Butler 9 run (Dimas kick), 9:38.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">HOU_Hebert 7 run (Dimas kick), 4:57.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">SOU_Clark 79 pass from McCauley (kick blocked), 4:38.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth Quarter<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">HOU_Carney 8 run (Dimas kick), 5:56.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-attendance\">A_28,936.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-divider\">___<\/p>\n<p>SOU<br \/>\nHOU<\/p>\n<p>First downs<br \/>\n4<br \/>\n34<\/p>\n<p>Total Net Yards<br \/>\n121<br \/>\n591<\/p>\n<p>Rushes-yards<br \/>\n22&#8211;6<br \/>\n45-388<\/p>\n<p>Passing<br \/>\n127<br \/>\n203<\/p>\n<p>Punt Returns<br \/>\n0-0<br \/>\n1-8<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff Returns<br \/>\n3-39<br \/>\n0-0<\/p>\n<p>Interceptions Ret.<br \/>\n0-0<br \/>\n1-5<\/p>\n<p>Comp-Att-Int<br \/>\n10-20-1<br \/>\n15-19-0<\/p>\n<p>Sacked-Yards Lost<br \/>\n1-10<br \/>\n0-0<\/p>\n<p>Punts<br \/>\n6-31.667<br \/>\n0-0.0<\/p>\n<p>Fumbles-Lost<br \/>\n2-2<br \/>\n2-0<\/p>\n<p>Penalties-Yards<br \/>\n6-44<br \/>\n5-45<\/p>\n<p>Time of Possession<br \/>\n21:42<br \/>\n38:18<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-divider\">___<\/p>\n<p>INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">RUSHING_Southern U., Asberry 3-6, C.Davis 1-4, Holly 3-4, Dade 1-0, Franklin 1-(minus 1), Gabriel 11-(minus 1), C.Johnson 2-(minus 18). Houston, Z.Smith 10-69, Hebert 5-65, Butler 6-55, K.Henderson 1-54, Hughes 8-44, Warmate 5-41, Sanford 4-27, Carney 4-23, Weigman 1-6, Robinson 1-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">PASSING_Southern U., McCauley 2-3-0-85, C.Johnson 5-12-0-29, Strother 3-5-1-13. Houston, Weigman 9-12-0-120, K.Henderson 6-7-0-83.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">RECEIVING_Southern U., Smith 2-13, F.Jones 2-12, C.Davis 2-10, Clark 1-79, Gabriel 1-10, Dade 1-2, Henderson 1-1. Houston, K.Young 3-54, A.Thomas 3-29, T.Walker 2-35, Overmyer 2-16, Sanford 1-27, Hebert 1-20, Jaq.Martin 1-11, McGary 1-10, Butler 1-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-ind\">MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southern U. 0 0 6 0 \u2014 6 Houston 28 21 21 7 \u2014 77 First Quarter HOU_Overmyer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-434711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434711","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=434711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}