Houston — Big 12
PPA off / def
0.11 / 0.11
2025
Class rank
#38
class of 2026
Returning PPA
81%
returning production
2026 schedule
2025 results (10–3)
Statistical comps — 2025 Houston's closest analogs
Nearest neighbors by z-scored success rate, explosiveness, run rate & havoc (offense + defense), 2015–25.
2025 leaders
Transfer portal — 2026 (18 in / 16 out)
Origins
Yeoman invented the veer offense and integrated Texas college football in 1964 when the Southwest Conference would not have him. Andre Ware won the 1989 Heisman in an offense nobody could time.
Founded 1927 · Began as a junior college for a city booming on oil · first football 1946 · defined by Bill Yeoman
All-time record
All-time
475–389–15
1946–2025
Win %
54.9%
80 seasons played
Winning seasons
46
57% of seasons
By level: D-II 6–8–1 (1946–1949) · FBS 469–381–14 (1950–2025)
| Best seasons | W | L | Conference |
|---|
| 2015 | 13 | 1 | American Athletic |
| 2011 | 13 | 1 | Conference USA |
| 2021 | 12 | 2 | American Athletic |
| 1979 | 11 | 1 | Southwest |
| 1973 | 11 | 1 | FBS Independents |
Season records from CollegeFootballData, which is why the span starts at 1946 — that is where its coverage of this program begins, not necessarily the first year it fielded a team.
Play-calling tendencies (2025 · garbage time excluded)
| Situation | Plays | Run % | Success % | Nat'l | Avg yds | Expl % |
|---|
| 1st down | 394 | 64% |
45% | 53 of 136 | 5.6 | 11% |
| 2nd down | 289 | 63% |
38% | 108 of 136 | 5.1 | 10% |
| 3rd & short (≤3) | 60 | 68% |
68% | — | 5.8 | 10% |
| 3rd & medium (4–7) | 51 | 33% |
31% | — | 4.8 | 8% |
| 3rd & long (8+) | 79 | 24% |
27% | — | 6.6 | 13% |
| 4th down | 32 | 31% |
56% | — | 5.1 | 13% |
166 drives · 34% ended in points · 7.0 plays and 40.3 yards per drive · 0.62 PPA per drive
Success: 50% of yardage needed on 1st, 70% on 2nd, 100% on 3rd/4th. Explosive: 12+ yd rush / 16+ yd pass. National rank is shown only for 1st and 2nd down, where every team has 100+ plays; the later buckets average 18-43 and a rank there would be noise.
League leaderboard →Most valuable plays (by PPA, 2025)
| Wk | Opp | Play | Yds | PPA |
|---|
| 2 | Rice |
Conner Weigman pass complete to Stephon Johnson for 74 yds for a TD (Ethan Sanchez KICK) |
74 | 6.67 |
| 11 | UCF |
(08:07) No Huddle-Shotgun #1 C.Weigman pass complete deep right to #0 A.Thomas caught at U… |
64 | 5.15 |
| 6 | Texas Tech |
Amare Thomas 64 Yd pass from Zeon Chriss (Zeon Chriss Pass to Stephon Johnson for Two-Poin… |
64 | 5.15 |
| 5 | Oregon State |
Tanner Koziol 50 Yd pass from Conner Weigman (Ethan Sanchez Kick) |
50 | 4.96 |
| 2 | Rice |
Dean Connors run for 42 yds for a TD (Ethan Sanchez KICK) |
42 | 4.29 |
| 9 | Arizona State |
End of 4th quarter. |
93 | 4.28 |
| 13 | TCU |
(04:58) No Huddle-Shotgun #44 D.Connors rush middle for 54 yards gain to the TCU37 (#4 N.O… |
54 | 4.21 |
| 3 | Colorado |
Conner Weigman pass complete to Stephon Johnson for 54 yds to the COLO 7 for a 1ST down |
54 | 3.77 |