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Big 12 · 2026 season

The story so far

Houston fans spent the season torn between a powerful run game and a pass defense they never trusted, with the Week 3 loss at Texas Tech souring early optimism. Euphoria over a 6-2 start and playoff talk collapsed at Utah, leaving fans deflated at misery 80.

From Reddit fan threads · through Wk 8 · Oct 19–25 · 6-2

Season misery
42Content
Worst week
80Wk 8 · Oct 19–25
Best week
2Wk 2 · Sep 7–13
Wk 1 · Aug 31–Sep 6: misery 33 (Content) · 1-0Wk 2 · Sep 7–13: misery 2 (Euphoric) · 1-0Wk 3 · Sep 14–20: misery 72 (Miserable) · 0-1Wk 4 · Sep 21–27: misery 63 (Uneasy) · 1-0Wk 5 · Sep 28–Oct 4: misery 66 (Miserable) · 1-0Wk 6 · Oct 5–11: misery 11 (Euphoric) · 1-0Wk 7 · Oct 12–18: misery 10 (Euphoric) · 1-0Wk 8 · Oct 19–25: misery 80 (Despair) · 0-1Wk 0Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Wk 5Wk 6Wk 7Wk 8Wk 9
Weekly misery, Monday to Sunday. Above the line is miserable; below is happy.

Storylines

what fans talked about, week by week
Season-long

  • From 317 passing yards allowed in Week 1 to Dampier exposing the bend-don't-break scheme in Week 8, fans blamed soft zones, weak pass rush and Austin Armstrong's scheme nearly every week.

    “I’ll take a good dub but whew that QB Atkinson absolutely pieced us up.”

    ▲ 312Wk 1 · Aug 31–Sep 6

    Wk 1 · Aug 31–Sep 6 ›Wk 4 · Sep 21–27 ›Wk 8 · Oct 19–25 ›
Kept coming up
Emerging

angry / anxioushappy / hopefulsplitbigger dot = louder

  1. —Wk 9 · Oct 26–Nov 1
  2. 80Wk 8 · Oct 19–250-1›
  3. 10Wk 7 · Oct 12–181-0›
  4. 11Wk 6 · Oct 5–111-0›
  5. 66Wk 5 · Sep 28–Oct 41-0›
  6. 63Wk 4 · Sep 21–271-0›
  7. 72Wk 3 · Sep 14–200-1›
  8. 2Wk 2 · Sep 7–131-0›
  9. 33Wk 1 · Aug 31–Sep 61-0›
  10. —Wk 0 · Aug 24–30