1996 Houston Cougars football team
| 1996 Houston Cougars football | |
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C-USA champion | |
Liberty Bowl, L 17–30 vs. Syracuse | |
| Conference | Conference USA |
| 1996 record | 7–5 (4–1 C-USA) |
| Head coach | Kim Helton |
| Home stadium |
Houston Astrodome (Capacity: 59,969) |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Miss + | 4 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Houston + | 4 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cincinnati | 2 | – | 3 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Louisville | 2 | – | 3 | 5 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Memphis | 2 | – | 3 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tulane | 1 | – | 4 | 2 | – | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1996 Houston Cougars football team, also known as the Houston Cougars, Houston, or UH represented the University of Houston in the 1996 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the 51st year of season play for Houston and the first season as a member of Conference USA following the breakup of the Southwest Conference. The team was coached by Kim Helton. The team split its home games between the Houston Astrodome and Robertson Stadium. The Cougars became inaugural conference champions and were invited to the 1996 Liberty Bowl, their first bowl game since 1988. Houston won their conference for the first time since 1984.
Schedule
Houston did not play Rice for the first time since 1970.
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | |||
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| August 31 | Sam Houston State* | Robertson Stadium • Houston | W 43–25 | - | |||||
| September 7 | 7:00 PM | at No. 17 LSU* | Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, Louisiana | L 34–35 | 80,303 | ||||
| September 14 | 6:00 PM | at Pittsburgh* | Pitt Stadium • Pittsburgh, PA | W 42–35 OT | 27,648 | ||||
| September 21 | 2:30 PM | No. 15 USC* | Houston Astrodome • Houston | L 9–26 | 21,035 | ||||
| October 5 | at Southwestern Louisiana* | Cajun Field • Lafayette, LA | W 31–24 | - | |||||
| October 12 | 7:00 PM | Memphis | Houston Astrodome • Houston | W 37–20 | - | ||||
| October 19 | at Cincinnati | Nippert Stadium • Cincinnati, Ohio | L 20–31 | - | |||||
| October 26 | 5:30 PM | No. 9 North Carolina* | Houston Astrodome • Houston | L 14–42 | 16,850 | ||||
| November 2 | at Tulane | Louisiana Superdome • New Orleans | W 20–17 | 14,474 | |||||
| November 9 | No. 20 Southern Miss | Robertson Stadium • Houston | W 56–49 | - | |||||
| November 16 | Louisville | Houston Astrodome • Houston | W 38–7 | - | |||||
| December 27 | 2:00 PM | vs. No. 23 Syracuse* | Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium • Memphis, TN (Liberty Bowl) | ESPN | L 17–30 | 49,163 | |||
*Non-conference game.  | |||||||||
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