{"id":455965,"date":"2026-10-04T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455965\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T07:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:24:12","slug":"uh-football-cougars-unveil-space-themed-helmets-vs-ucf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455965\/","title":{"rendered":"UH football: Cougars unveil space-themed helmets vs. UCF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cougars are going where no Houston football team has gone before.<\/p>\n<p>For Saturday\u2019s Built By Houston game against UCF, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/college\/cougars\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">University of Houston<\/a> will wear 10 hand-painted helmet designs inspired by the Sun, eight planets and Pluto.<\/p>\n<p>The Built By Houston game will be an annual celebration that highlights different themes tied to the city, including space exploration, food, Houston Livestock Show &amp; Rode, the music and hip-hop legacy, architecture and engineering, the city\u2019s sports culture, the iconic Houston Blue street tiles and police vehicles, the energy industry, the school said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>With only one created, Pluto is the rarest helmet in the collection. The helmet, to be worn by quarterback Conner Weigman, was auctioned for $40,000 at Friday night\u2019s Hall of Honor gala.<\/p>\n<p>It was no coincidence that Saturday\u2019s space-themed helmets were unveiled for the game against UCF, which has hosted a Space Game each year since 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/college\/article\/houston-football-ucf-21134995.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">UCF claims itself as \u201cSpace U,\u201d<\/a> with the Orlando, Fla., campus located just 35 miles from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<p>Armando Villarreal Studios designed 133 helmets for the Cougars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cougars are going where no Houston football team has gone before. For Saturday\u2019s Built By Houston game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-455965","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\/455965","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=455965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}