2006 Houston Cougars football team

The 2006 Houston Cougars football team, also known as the Houston Cougars, Houston, or UH represented the University of Houston in the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the 61st year of season play for Houston. The team was coached by fourth-year head football coach, Art Briles. The team played its home games at Robertson Stadium, a 32,000-person capacity stadium on-campus in Houston. After regular season play where Houston won the C-USA West division, the Cougars defeated the Southern Miss Golden Eagles in the Conference USA Football Championship to become conference champions for the first time since 1996.^[1][2]

2006 Houston Cougars football
C-USA champion C-USA West Division champion
C-USA Championship, W 34–20 vs. Southern Miss
Liberty Bowl, L 36–44 vs. South Carolina
Conference	Conference USA
Division	West
Record	10–4 (7–1 C-USA)
Head coach	Art Briles (4th season)
Offensive scheme	Veer and shoot
Defensive coordinator	Alan Weddell (1st season)
Base defense	4–3
Home stadium	Robertson Stadium
Seasons ← 2005 2007 →

2006 Conference USA football standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
East Division
Southern Miss x		6	–	2					9	–	5
East Carolina		5	–	3					7	–	6
Marshall		4	–	4					5	–	7
UCF		3	–	5					4	–	8
UAB		2	–	6					3	–	9
Memphis		1	–	7					2	–	10
West Division
Houston x$		7	–	1					10	–	4
Rice		6	–	2					7	–	6
Tulsa		5	–	3					8	–	5
SMU		4	–	4					6	–	6
UTEP		3	–	5					5	–	7
Tulane		2	–	6					4	–	8
Championship: Houston 34, Southern Miss 20
$ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 2	8:00 pm	at Rice	Rice Stadium Houston, TX (rivalry)	CSTV	W 31–30	23,352
September 9	6:00 pm	Tulane	Robertson Stadium Houston, TX		W 45–7	16,506
September 16	6:00 pm	Grambling State*	Robertson Stadium Houston, TX		W 42–22	27,302
September 23	8:00 pm	Oklahoma State*	Robertson Stadium Houston, TX	CSTV	W 34–25	28,260
September 30	5:00 pm	at Miami (FL)*	Miami Orange Bowl Miami, FL	ESPN2	L 13–14	36,107
October 7	6:00 pm	Louisiana–Lafayette*	Robertson Stadium Houston, TX		L 28–31	17,543
October 14	6:00 pm	at Southern Miss	M. M. Roberts Stadium Hattiesburg, MS		L 27–31	32,317
October 21	6:00 pm	UTEP	Robertson Stadium Houston, TX		W 34–17	18,154
October 28	2:30 pm	UCF	Robertson Stadium Houston, TX	CSTV	W 51–31	13,242
November 4	2:30 pm	Tulsa	Robertson Stadium Houston, TX (rivalry)	CSTV	W 27–10	22,452
November 11	2:00 pm	at SMU	Gerald J. Ford Stadium University Park, TX (rivalry)		W 37–27	20,350
November 18	1:00 pm	at Memphis	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Memphis, TN		W 23–20 OT	20,344
December 1	7:00 pm	Southern Miss	Robertson Stadium Houston, TX (C-USA Championship)	ESPN	W 34–20	31,818
December 29	3:30 pm	vs. South Carolina*	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Memphis, TN (Liberty Bowl)	ESPN	L 36–44	56,103
*Non-conference game All times are in Central time

Game summaries

Rice

1 2 3 4 Total • Houston 14 0 3 14 31 Rice 0 27 3 0 30 Date: September 2 Location: Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas Game start: 9:00 p.m. EST

Scoring summary Q1 12:20 HOU Jeron Harvey 6 yard pass from Kevin Kolb (T.J. Lawrence kick) HOU 7–0 Q1 2:25 HOU Jackie Battle 7 yard run (T.J. Lawrence kick) HOU 14–0 Q2 14:47 RICE Jarrett Dillard 13 yard pass from Chase Clement (Luke Juist kick) HOU 14–7 Q2 10:42 RICE Quinton Smith 80 yard pass from Chase Clement (Luke Juist kick) Tie 14–14 Q2 6:40 RICE Quinton Smith 7 yard run (Luke Juist kick) RICE 21–14 Q2 :21 RICE Quinton Smith 1 yard run (kick blocked) RICE 27–14 Q3 6:19 RICE Luke Juist 44 yard field goal RICE 30–14 Q3 2:04 HOU T.J. Lawrence 20 yard field goal RICE 30–17 Q4 13:41 HOU Vincent Marshall 8 yard pass from Kevin Kolb (T.J. Lawrence kick) RICE 30–24 Q4 10:28 HOU Anthony Alridge 8 yard pass from Kevin Kolb (T.J. Lawrence kick) HOU 31–30

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References

1. "2009 Houston Cougars Media Guide: All-Time Series Game-By-Game" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 12, 2012. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
2. "Houston 2006 Schedule/Results". ESPN. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
3. ESPN