1990 Houston Cougars football team

The 1990 Houston Cougars football team represented the University of Houston during the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cougars were led by first-year head coach John Jenkins and played their home games at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The team competed as members of the Southwest Conference, finishing in second. Due to NCAA sanctions, Houston was ineligible to be invited to a bowl game and was banned from being ranked in the Coaches Poll. The Cougars lost only once in the season, to eventual SWC champions Texas, and were ranked 10th in the final AP Poll of the year. Their last regular season game was played in Tokyo, Japan, in the Coca-Cola Classic.

1990 Houston Cougars football
Conference	Southwest Conference
Ranking
AP	No. 10
1990 record	10–1 (7–1 SWC)
Head coach	John Jenkins (1st season)
Home stadium	Astrodome

1990 Southwest Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 12 Texas $	8	–	0	–	0			10	–	2	–	0
No. 10 Houston	7	–	1	–	0			10	–	1	–	0
No. 15 Texas A&M	5	–	2	–	1			9	–	3	–	1
Baylor	5	–	2	–	1			6	–	4	–	1
Rice	3	–	5	–	0			5	–	6	–	0
TCU	3	–	5	–	0			5	–	6	–	0
Texas Tech	3	–	5	–	0			4	–	7	–	0
Arkansas	1	–	7	–	0			3	–	8	–	0
SMU	0	–	8	–	0			1	–	10	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

Quarterback David Klingler finished third in voting for the Heisman Trophy, leading the nation with 54 passing touchdowns and 374 completions. His 5,140 passing yards trailed only Heisman-winner Ty Detmer of BYU.[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result
September 8	UNLV*	No. 24	Astrodome Houston, TX	W 37–9
September 13	at Texas Tech	No. 18	Jones Stadium Lubbock, TX	W 51–35
September 29	Rice	No. 13	Astrodome Houston, TX (Bayou Bucket Classic)	W 24–22
October 6	at Baylor	No. 13	Floyd Casey Stadium Waco, TX	W 31–15
October 13	No. 20 Texas A&M	No. 12	Astrodome Houston, TX	W 36–31
October 20	at SMU	No. 9	Ownby Stadium Dallas, TX	W 44–17
October 27	Arkansas	No. 6	Astrodome Houston, TX	W 62–28
November 3	TCU	No. 6	Astrodome Houston, TX	W 56–35
November 10	at No. 14 Texas	No. 3	Texas Memorial Stadium Austin, TX (rivalry)	L 24–45
November 17	Eastern Washington*	No. 12	Astrodome Houston, TX	W 84–21
December 2	vs. Arizona State*	No. 11	Tokyo Dome Tokyo, Japan (Coca-Cola Classic)	W 62–45
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Source:[2]

Roster

1990 Houston Cougars football team roster
Players			Coaches
Offense Pos. # Name Class WR 20 Manny Hazard Sr QB 7 David Klingler Jr RB 28 Chuck Weatherspoon Sr	Defense Pos. # Name Class LB   Reggie Burnette Sr LB   Glenn Cadrez Jr LB   Ryan McCoy So	Special teams Pos. # Name Class K   Roman Anderson Jr	Head coach John Jenkins Coordinators/assistant coaches Legend (C) Team captain (S) Suspended (I) Ineligible Injured Redshirt

Rankings

Main article: 1990 NCAA Division I-A football rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. т = Tied with team above or below. ( ) = First place votes.

	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Final
AP	24	24	18	14	13	13	12	9	6 (1)	6 (2)	3 (5)	12	12	11	9	10
Coaches		Not released

Game summaries

UNLV

See also: UNLV Rebels football

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
1–0	1989	W 69–0

at Texas Tech

See also: 1990 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
16–5–1	1989	W 40–24

[3]

Rice

See also: Rice Owls football and Bayou Bucket Classic

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
15–4	1989	W 64–0

at Baylor

See also: 1990 Baylor Bears football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
11–10–1	1989	W 66–10

Texas A&M

Texas A&M at Houston

1 2 3 4 Total No. 20 Aggies 17 7 7 0 31 • No. 12 Cougars 7 10 10 9 36 Date: October 13 Location: Astrodome, Houston, Texas Game attendance: 45,141 Game weather: Indoors

Scoring summary 1 A&M Darren Lewis 47-yard run (Talbot kick) A&M 7–0 1 A&M Layne Talbot 33-yard field goal A&M 10–0 1 5:16 A&M Darren Lewis 9-yard run (Talbot kick) A&M 17–0 1 2:40 HOU Manny Hazard 14-yard pass from David Klingler (Anderson kick) A&M 17–7 2 A&M Darren Lewis 4-yard run (Talbot kick) A&M 24–7 2 HOU Chuck Weatherspoon 1-yard run (Anderson kick) A&M 24–14 2 0:00 HOU Roman Anderson 39-yard field goal A&M 24–17 3 HOU David Klingler 1-yard run (Anderson kick) Tied 24–24 3 6:40 HOU Roman Anderson 23-yard field goal Houston 27–24 3 A&M Darren Lewis 12-yard run (Talbot kick) A&M 31–27 4 12:33 HOU Roman Anderson 34-yard field goal A&M 31–30 4 0:20 HOU Chuck Weatherspoon 1-yard run (pass failed) Houston 36–31

See also: 1990 Texas A&M Aggies football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
11–14	1989	L 13–17

The Cougars drove 95 yards for the game-winning touchdown, a 1-yard run by Chuck Weatherspoon with 20 seconds remaining. Weatherspoon accounted for 218 yards from scrimmage (131 rushing) and 2 touchdowns. David Klingler passed for 352 yards and had 2 touchdowns (1 rushing).[4]

at SMU

See also: 1990 SMU Mustangs football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
6–7	1989	W 95–21

Arkansas

See also: 1990 Arkansas Razorbacks football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
5–11	1989	L 39–45

TCU

See also: 1990 TCU Horned Frogs football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
11–3	1989	W 55–10

at Texas

See also: 1990 Texas Longhorns football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
6–8–1	1989	W 47–9

[5][6]

Eastern Washington

See also: Eastern Washington Eagles football

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
First meeting

vs. Arizona State

See also: 1990 Arizona State Sun Devils football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
3–5	1989	W 36–7

In the 62–45 victory over the Sun Devils, David Klingler set the Division I-A single-game passing record with 716 yards.[7]

References

1. "1990 College Football Leaders". Sports-Reference.com.
2. "1990 Houston Cougars Schedule and Results". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
3. "Houston 51, Texas Tech 35". UPI. September 14, 1990. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
4. "Houston 36, Texas A&M 31". UPI. October 13, 1990. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
5. "Texas Hands Houston First Loss". New York Times. November 11, 1990. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
6. Murphy, Austin (November 19, 1990). "Texas Hooks Some Respect". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
7. "Klingler Has Record Finish With 716 Yards". Los Angeles Times. December 3, 1990. Retrieved September 2, 2019.