The boys are back, with the following Houston Cougar sports topics up for discussion in this week's episode:

• Cougar football finds out its postseason destination, early thoughts on the Texas Bowl/LSU & how attendance issues contributed
• Talking the 2026 football signing class, what 5-star QB Keisean Henderson's signing means & thoughts on other '26 signees and the class as a whole
• Men's hoops is back in action with a mostly convincing win over FSU (w/its own attendance discussion) & returns to the Fertitta Center for the first time since Thanksgiving
• Unpacking a difficult, now completed volleyball season
• Reviewing the still fairly newly released tennis spring schedule
• Revisiting a humbling home non-conference loss by women's hoops to Southern

We may have now reached the end of the Houston Cougar football regular season, but the boys are back with certainly no shortage of UH sports topics to discuss, including the following:

4:45- Football wins its 2nd straight game at Baylor

43:57- Down w/the Pickness, final regular season week

45:52- Recapping men's hoops' last game in Vegas against Notre Dame, big picture Players Era festival thoughts & previewing Florida State

1:05:16- Women's hoops splits a pair of games in the Bahamas, equals their 24-25 season win total

The boys are back here on the eve of Thanksgiving with more than just opinions on the best sides and turkey brine as they chew on these Houston Cougar sports topics from the week that was:

2:02- Thanksgiving food talk

6:25- Men's hoops continues to learn about itself in the challenging Vegas Players Era festival this week

29:36- Star recruits Arafan Diane & Ikenna Alozie sign to the men's hoops program

34:54- Recapping a heartbreaker of a senior day football loss to TCU

1:25:05- Brice Cherry of the Waco Tribune joins to preview Baylor football

1:46:28- Additional Baylor preview thoughts

1:54:14- Last regular season Down w/the Pickness

1:58:08- Women's hoops' encouraging 2-0 non-conference week

You can't sneeze at talking about both of the Houston Cougars' highest profile sports being top 25 programs with lots of happy stuff to talk about, which Bobby and Sam did this week among these following topics:

6:09- Men's basketball survives its first road test against Auburn w/plenty of help from super frosh Kingston Flemings & looks ahead to the Players Era Event in Vegas

43:58- Jamie Plunkett of Horned Frog Blitz/247Sports joins the pawd to preview TCU Horned Frog Football

1:02:48- Additional TCU preview thoughts

1:14:34- Down w/the Pickness weeks 12/13

1:20:53- Women's basketball loses a tough road opener, but shows some positives & gets 2 more interesting non-conference tests

Its another big meaty pawd full of Houston Cougar talk from a number of different recent sports happenings, in the following order:

3:29- Men's hoops gets out to a 2-0 start & looking ahead to a big weekend showdown w/Auburn on the road

28:14- Football's dramatic 30-27 win at UCF, the first ever by a non-UCF team in the Space Game

58:57- Our spicest future facing Cougar football takes + some of our followers' takes

1:16:15- Down w/the Pickness, Weeks 11/12

1:19:23- First fall season check-in on the Cougar Swimming & Diving program

1:24:00- Cougar Tennis Corner! (perhaps the last one of the year with fall action)

1:26:23- Women's hoops splits its games & looks ahead to the 1st road game of the season

The boys are back, with a meaty episode as we have reached that equinox state of the calendar where the football and basketball seasons collide, with the following topics (w/time stamps) up for discussion:

2:59- Cougar football drops a baffling game to West Virginia

46:20- Adam Eaton of Sons of UCF joins the pawd to preview the '25 UCF football team

1:03:32- Additional UCF preview thoughts

1:19:16- Down W/the Pickness, weeks 11/12

1:23:45- Men's basketball opens the season against Lehigh, looks ahead to Towson

1:36:13- Soccer ends a promising 1st season under Ben Williams

1:42:39- Women's basketball wins their season opener/1st game of the Matthew Mitchell era

The boys are back in the regular spot and with plenty of Houston Cougar on field triumphs to talk about and look ahead to, with the following topics this week:

0:00- RIP Kurt Hester

3:57- Recapping a top 25 Cougar football road upset of Arizona State

42:09- Previewing West Virginia, in year 1 of HC Rich Rodriguez's 2nd run there

1:01:38- Down W/the Pickness, weeks 9/10

1:06:34- Cougar soccer gets 2 results to stay alive for the Big 12 tournament

1:14:58- Cougar volleyball lets another Big 12 match slip away

1:20:19- Quick thoughts on Cougar men's hoops' opener next Monday vs Lehigh

Its HOOPS time! The boys return to discuss the upcoming seasons for both the Houston Cougar men's and women's basketball programs, as the teams look ahead to what should be exciting 2025-26 seasons to come.

The boys are back, even with Bobby once again coming from 'parts semi-known' on a work trip, with the following Hoston Cougar sports topics:

0:00- Paying tribute to the now late Cougar football legend Warren McVea

5:56- Recapping a 31-28 win over Arizona

51:35- Ralph Amsden helps us preview top 25 Arizona State

1:12:25- Additional Arizona State thoughts

1:28:42- Down w/the Pickness weeks 8/9

1:32:49- Soccer's unbeaten week

1:45:08- Assessing what's wrong w/volleyball

1:55:11- Cougar golf corner! (women's AND men's this week)

1:57:50- Tennis adds a decorated international recruit!

The boys are back in the saddle with the happy occasion of a Houston Cougar football win to discuss, along with a number of other UH sports topics:

4:01- Recapping a blowout 39-17 win by the Coogs at Oklahoma State

35:44- Brian Pedersen of AZDesertSwarm.com joins the preview Arizona Wildcat football

48:52- Additional Arizona preview thoughts

1:01:24- Down w/the Pickness week 7 recap/week 8 picks

1:06:51- Quicker than usual Soccer/Volleyball recaps

1:08:41- Cougar Men's Hoops preseason poll/metrics talk

1:14:28- Cougar tennis corner