A little 12+ minute taste of what Bobby and Sam talked about on the Patreon-exclusive Bayou Bucket react episode, which you can get access to by going to patreon.com/shpawdcast and supporting the work the guys do talking about the Cougars.

Bobby and Sam, in certainly the meatiest episode of the new season, FINALLY have a real life Cougar football game to talk about in what is absolutely a jampacked week of Cougar sports and these were our topics for the week's pawd:

• Recapping Cougar football's 27-0 win over SFA, a defensive masterclass and an offensive performance with signs of promise and unanswered questions
• Previewing the Rice Owls w/help from friend of the show Matt Bartlett of At the Roost & our thoughts on what will hopefully not be the last Bayou Bucket game for the foreseeable future
• Week 2 Down With the Pickness and recapping week 1 picks
• Volleyball has an incredible 3-0 opening weekend & a big Flo Hyman Classic slate coming this week
• Soccer nears the end of its promising non-conference season
• A Cross Country update!

FOOTBALL IS BACK and we're excited to talk about that, along with multiple other very exciting Houston Cougar sports topics in roughly this order:

• Soccer absolutely demolishes UT-Austin 4-1 in a match that was nothing short of a statement of intent by this team and 1st year HC Ben Williams
• Previewing the SFA Lumberjacks w/help from SFA alum/D1 FCS football Internetsman Dustin Helton and adding our own thoughts on the 'Jacks and Thursday's match-up
• DOWN WITH THE PICKNESS RETURNS FOR 2025
• Volleyball kicks off its season on Friday, so we previewed what we think the 2025 team will look like

The return of Houston Cougar football is SO CLOSE we can taste it, with single digit days left until the season starts the boys returned to discuss plenty of future pigskin among the following UH sports topics:

• An in-depth preview of a '25 Cougar football offense with an exciting new QB in Conner Weigman, lots of new faces with some key returnees but questions still to answer and at the risk of jinxing it... almost nowhere to go but up
• Breaking down the first week of the Cougar soccer (fútbol) season and the Ben Williams era, plus a pair of interesting in state non-conference matchups
• With the Big 12 football season beginning this weekend, we answered the biggest and most interesting questions about the upcoming season

We've reached a truly wonderful time of the year, as Bobby and Sam return in the halcyon preseason days of August with seasons to look forward to and talk about, talking about the following topics tonight:

• Previewing the 2025 Houston Cougar football defense (by position) and special teams, players to watch in the coming season & thoughts on 1st year defensive coordinator Austin Armstrong
• With the return of actual on field Cougar sports this week, we preview the annual 1st team in action: your Houston Cougar soccer program with 1st year head coach Ben Williams leading the team into what we hope will be an exciting new era

There's no special occasion quite like the beginning of a new season as we begin the 11th season of this pawd with all co-hosts (emeritus and regular) returning as Bobby, Dustin, and Sam stake their pre-season bold predictions w/at least 1 for every UH intercollegiate sport & revisit 24-25 bold predictions & find out who was the master prognosticator.

This year's pawd also features some new types of questions/predictions that we're stoked for y'all to hear!

The boys are doing something a bit different for this one tonight here in the waning days of July, as co-host emeritus Dustin plays some combination of Richard Dawson, Steve Harvey, and Louie Anderson hosting "Pawdcast Feud" and testing the knowledge of the regular co-hosts on various UH and UH sports-related questions

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The boys are back (the boys are back) with a new pawd full of some new and familiar topics when it comes to Houston Cougar sports topics around these parts, including the following:

• Bobby was out at Big 12 football media days, talking with Willie Fritz and the Coog players in attendace up in Frisco & giving the biggest talking points during the heart of talking season
• Addressing the latest attempts by external forces to invent a UH and UCF sports rivalry out of thin air
• Antoine Jean & Connor McGinnis become the latest Coogs selected in the MLB Draft
• Discussing a really nice week for the UH football staff on the recruiting front as the 2026 class comes into focus w/2 new 4-star commitments

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After a week off, the boys returned to kick around the following Houston Cougar sports topics:

• Men's hoops finds out their first 2 games at the Players Era event in Vegas & we check in on program alums competing at the NBA Summer League
• The softball coaching staff starts to take shape, with Chrissy Schoonmaker hiring her first 2 asssistants
• Checking in on women's golfers competing overseas during the offseason
• Antoine Jean rakes in the college baseball All-American honors
• But our main topic is digging into the House v. NCAA settlement, the basics of the case, how UH is affected/ideas on disbursing the revenue and big picture takeaways of how we thing this settlement will/won't change the college sports landscape and the questions still to be answered
• A quick snippet of our latest patron exclusive episode!

Its one of our absolute favorite traditions, the 8th annual Pawscar awards as Bobby, Dustin, and Sam honor the best University of Houston athletes, teams, coaches, and moments from the 2024-25 athletics year that was!