1969 Houston Cougars football team

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1969 Houston Cougars football
University of Houston's classic athletics logo
Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl champion
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
CoachesNo. 16
APNo. 12
Record9–2
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorBill Yeoman (8th season)
Offensive schemeHouston Veer
Defensive coordinatorMelvin Robertson (5th season)
Home stadiumAstrodome (53,000)
Seasons
← 1968
1970 →
1969 NCAA University Division independents football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 2 Penn State   –   11 – 0 – 0
No. 17 West Virginia   –   10 – 1 – 0
No. 12 Houston   –   9 – 2 – 0
No. 5 Notre Dame   –   8 – 2 – 1
Buffalo   –   6 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   6 – 3 – 0
Villanova   –   6 – 3 – 0
Florida State   –   6 – 3 – 1
Colgate   –   5 – 3 – 1
Air Force   –   6 – 4 – 0
West Texas State
   –   6 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   5 – 4 – 0
New Mexico State   –   5 – 5 – 0
Southern Miss   –   5 – 5 – 0
Syracuse   –   5 – 5 – 0
Army   –   4 – 5 – 1
VPI   –   4 – 5 – 1
Georgia Tech   –   4 – 6 – 0
Miami (FL)   –   4 – 6 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   4 – 6 – 0
Dayton   –   3 – 7 – 0
Marshall   –   3 – 7 – 0
Northern Illinois   –   3 – 7 – 0
Tulane   –   3 – 7 – 0
Utah State   –   3 – 7 – 0
Idaho   –   2 – 8 – 0
Navy   –   1 – 9 – 0
Xavier   –   1 – 9 – 0
Rankings from
AP Poll

The 1969 Houston Cougars football team, also known as the Houston Cougars, Houston, or UH, represented the

1970 NFL Draft
.

Preseason

Top 25 rankings

Houston was nationally ranked in the

AP Poll for the pre-season with the #7 spot.[1]
It was the first time that Houston had received votes in the pre-season for that poll since the 1953 season, and was the highest pre-season ranking for the team ever. Outside of the 1967 season, it was the highest that Houston had ever been ranked in the poll.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendanceSource
September 20at FloridaNo. 7
L 34–5953,807[2]
September 27at Oklahoma State
L 18–2423,500
October 4Mississippi State
W 74–036,207[3]
October 11at Arizona
W 34–1732,800
October 25No. 17 Ole Miss
  • Houston Astrodome
  • Houston, TX
W 25–1148,049[4]
November 1Miami (FL)
  • Houston Astrodome
  • Houston, TX
ABCW 38–3625,498
November 8at Tulsa
W 47–1417,750
November 15at NC StateNo. T–18
W 34–1331,000[5]
November 22WyomingNo. 19
  • Houston Astrodome
  • Houston, TX
W 41–1435,389
November 29Florida StateNo. 18
  • Houston Astrodome
  • Houston, TX
W 41–1336,508
December 31vs. No. 12 AuburnNo. T–17
HTNW 36–755,203[6]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

[7]

Game summaries

Florida

Houston opened the 1969 season ranked as #7 in the Pre-season

Florida Field. Led by tenth-year head coach Ray Graves, Florida had not lost a season opener for the past three years, while Houston had not lost a season opener for the past four years.[8] It was the first time in history that the two teams had met.[7] The victory by the Gators was considered a major upset, as the #7-ranked Houston quickly fell to an unranked position following the game, while Florida rose to #12 in the AP Poll.[9] Following the game, Florida eventually went on to earn a 9–1–1 overall record, and after the defeat of Tennessee in the Gator Bowl, a #14 national ranking the poll to finish the season.[10]

Poll rankings

Week-to-Week Rankings[11]
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking. ██ Not ranked the previous week.
Poll Pre Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 Wk 7 Wk 8 Wk 9 Wk 10 Wk 11 Wk 12 Final
AP 7 NR NR NR NR NR NR NR 18 19 18 19 17 12

Coaching staff

Head coach Bill Yeoman coaches Houston
Name Position Alma mater (Year) Year at Houston
Bill Yeoman Head coach/offensive coordinator Army (1948) 7th
Melvin Robertson Defensive coordinator West Texas State (1950) 5th
Melvin Brown Offensive backs coach Oklahoma (1954) 8th
Billy Willingham
Offensive line coach
 TCU (1951) 4th
Barry Sides Offensive line coach/defensive ends coach Houston (1968) 1st
Ben Hurt
Defensive line coach
 Middle Tennessee (1957) 5th
Howard Tippett
Linebackers coach
 East Tennessee State (1958) 3rd
Joe Arenas
Wide receivers coach
Nebraska-Omaha
(1951)		 7th
Carroll Schultz Freshmen coach Louisiana Tech (1948) 8th
Bobby Baldwin Freshmen coach Houston (1958) 5th

References

  1. ^ "Houston 1969 AP Football Rankings". College Poll Archive. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
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  7. ^ a b "2009 Houston Cougars football media guide: Year-by-Year results" (PDF). Houston Cougars athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 2, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2010.
  8. ^ "Cougars, Gators Gamble Opening Game Streaks". The Daytona Beach News-Journal. September 19, 1969. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  9. ^ Moran, Sheila (September 23, 1969). "Houston Drops Out of College Ratings". The Daily Courier. Archived from the original on July 12, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  10. ^ "Gutty Florida Defence Stops Tennessee 14–13 in Gator Bowl". Ottawa Citizen. December 29, 1969. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
  11. ^ "1969 Final AP Football Poll". AP Poll Archive. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved May 4, 2010.


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