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Dec 31, 2025

At the end of an eventful and mostly awesome calendar year for the Houston Cougar sports teams, the boys are back for 1 final time discuss the following Coog sports happenings from the week that was:

  • Recapping a 38-35 Texas Bowl win over LSU that felt like a celebration of a special team and perhaps the start of a larger buy-in from the fanbase
  • Men's Hoops closes non-conference play with a less than artful win over Middle Tennessee, with the excitement of Big 12 play beginning this coming weekend at Cincy
  • The latest 2 games of a brutally difficult, all top 25 opponents start to women's hoops' Big 12 season, with a National POY candidate playing at Houston this week
Dec 24, 2025

The boys are back (the boys are back) on the eve of Christmas Eve with the following Houston Cougar topics to discuss:

  • A 94-85 statement non-conference win by Cougar men's hoops over the #14 Arkansas Razorbacks & historic foe John Calipari
  • Hunt Palmer of LSU pre and postgame (and other Louisiana sports talk) joins us to preview the '25 LSU Tigers
  • Additional Texas Bowl/LSU thoughts from the boys
  • Discussing football coaching staff movement in and out
  • An auspicious start to Big 12 play for women's hoops
Dec 17, 2025

The boys are back (the boys are back), with a mid-December slate of Houston Cougar sports happenings to chew on this week:

1:01- Intro

5:25- Men’s Hoops gets 2 more convincing wins over Jackson St/New Orleans, looks ahead to last non-conference test against #14 Arkansas

25:50- Cougar fans SELL OUT their Texas Bowl allotment

31:49- Early portal entries from the football team, including O Line starter Demetrius Hunter

37:48- Taking a trip down memory lane of all UH football bowls 2007-present

1:32:14- Catching up with women’s hoops’ last week & Big 2 opener at West Virginia

Dec 10, 2025

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
Dec 3, 2025

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

Nov 26, 2025

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

Nov 19, 2025

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

Nov 12, 2025

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

Nov 5, 2025

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

Oct 29, 2025

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

Oct 27, 2025

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.

Oct 22, 2025

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!

Oct 15, 2025

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

Oct 8, 2025

The boys are back to talk the 1st loss of the football season (later than usual), along with a host of other Houston Cougar-related topics to metaphorically nosh on... including the following (w/time stamps):

3:50- Tech game recap

42:38- Phillip Slavin, our Ten12 Network empresario, joins to help preview Oklahoma State & talk Big 12 football

1:10:15- Additional OSU preview thoughts

1:20:11- Down w/the Pickness, weeks 6/7

1:25:10- Soccer gets a result vs BYU, drops a frustrating one vs Utah, travels to a tough WVU team

1:34:27- Volleyball struggles at Baylor/Colorado, finishes the road swing against the Utah Big 12 schools

1:40:06- Cougar Golf Corner off a 3rd (!!!!) men's golf individual title of the fall season

1:44:02- Quickly noting Cougar tennis' return to action later this week @ ITA Texas Regionals

Oct 1, 2025

The boys are back, the boys are back, with indisputably the meatiest episode of Season 11 and discussed these following topics (w/time stamps!!!):

2:47 - Football @ Oregon State recap

40:53 - Albie Shore of Tortillas & Takes helps us preview Texas Tech football

1:04:07 - Additional Tech thoughts

1:17:24 - Down w/the Pickness week 5 & 6

1:21:40 - Soccer's encouraging week against a brutal road slate

1:35:53 - Volleyball's close shave at TCU, gets in win column vs Tech

1:45:27 - Cougar tennis corner after a strong weekend @ Big 12 Individuals

1:55:16 - Mini Cougar golf corner after Grant Doggett's Bayou City Classic win!

Sep 23, 2025

The boys have survived the lack of Houston Cougar football during the past week, with the following UH sports topics to discuss:

  • Previewing the Oregon St Beavers, with help from Anchie Machado of BeaverBlitz.com
  • Week 4/5 Down w/the Pickness updates
  • Quickly discussing the newly-released men's hoops Big 12 schedule
  • Soccer opens Big 12 play with a statement win and looks ahead to a brutal schedule over the next 3 weeks
  • Some concerns after UH dropped a 5-setter last weekend & looking ahead to Big 12 opening opponents TCU & Texas Tech.
  • Fall updates/results to discuss from women's golf and tennis
Sep 17, 2025

We don't have football this coming week, but we have an exciting Houston Cougar football win to chew on and numerous other topics from the world of Cougar sports, which we discussed in this order:

  • The 1st ever Cougar football win in the Big 12 opener! Discussing everything from a 36-20 win over Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes, certainly this team's most complete effort, with PLENTY of Ethan Sanchez/Cougar special teams talk included
  • Each of our biggest takeaways from 25% of the football regular season completed
  • A miniature Down w/the Pickness & reviewing one co-host's 3-0 picking week in week 3
  • Soccer closes non-conference play with a win & looks head to its Big 12 opener this week
  • Volleyball gets its most challenging weekend done & looks ahead to its final non-conference weekend
  • Quick Tennis & Cross Country updates
Sep 10, 2025

The boys are back (the boys are back) and its our meatiest pawd of the young season with an episode positively overflowing with Houston Cougar sports happenings to chew on, including the following topics:

  • Recapping another dominant defensive performance from Cougar football's final scheduled Bayou Bucket game against the Rice Owls and thoughts on the future of the series.
  • Longtime Colorado beat writer Brian Howell lends us his knowledge of the CU Buffaloes football program
  • Additional thoughts on the 2025 Buffs' football team
  • Volleyball's encouraging opening home weekend
  • Another undefeated week for the Soccer program
  • And a triumphant start to the 2025-26 Golf season
Sep 7, 2025

A little 12+ minute taste of what Bobby and Sam talked about on the Patreon-exclusive Bayou Bucket react episode, which you can get access to by going to patreon.com/shpawdcast and supporting the work the guys do talking about the Cougars.

Sep 3, 2025

Bobby and Sam, in certainly the meatiest episode of the new season, FINALLY have a real life Cougar football game to talk about in what is absolutely a jampacked week of Cougar sports and these were our topics for the week's pawd:

  • Recapping Cougar football's 27-0 win over SFA, a defensive masterclass and an offensive performance with signs of promise and unanswered questions
  • Previewing the Rice Owls w/help from friend of the show Matt Bartlett of At the Roost & our thoughts on what will hopefully not be the last Bayou Bucket game for the foreseeable future
  • Week 2 Down With the Pickness and recapping week 1 picks
  • Volleyball has an incredible 3-0 opening weekend & a big Flo Hyman Classic slate coming this week
  • Soccer nears the end of its promising non-conference season
  • A Cross Country update!
Aug 27, 2025

FOOTBALL IS BACK and we're excited to talk about that, along with multiple other very exciting Houston Cougar sports topics in roughly this order:

  • Soccer absolutely demolishes UT-Austin 4-1 in a match that was nothing short of a statement of intent by this team and 1st year HC Ben Williams
  • Previewing the SFA Lumberjacks w/help from SFA alum/D1 FCS football Internetsman Dustin Helton and adding our own thoughts on the 'Jacks and Thursday's match-up
  • DOWN WITH THE PICKNESS RETURNS FOR 2025
  • Volleyball kicks off its season on Friday, so we previewed what we think the 2025 team will look like
Aug 20, 2025

The return of Houston Cougar football is SO CLOSE we can taste it, with single digit days left until the season starts the boys returned to discuss plenty of future pigskin among the following UH sports topics:

  • An in-depth preview of a '25 Cougar football offense with an exciting new QB in Conner Weigman, lots of new faces with some key returnees but questions still to answer and at the risk of jinxing it... almost nowhere to go but up
  • Breaking down the first week of the Cougar soccer (fútbol) season and the Ben Williams era, plus a pair of interesting in state non-conference matchups
  • With the Big 12 football season beginning this weekend, we answered the biggest and most interesting questions about the upcoming season
Aug 12, 2025

We've reached a truly wonderful time of the year, as Bobby and Sam return in the halcyon preseason days of August with seasons to look forward to and talk about, talking about the following topics tonight:

  • Previewing the 2025 Houston Cougar football defense (by position) and special teams, players to watch in the coming season & thoughts on 1st year defensive coordinator Austin Armstrong
  • With the return of actual on field Cougar sports this week, we preview the annual 1st team in action: your Houston Cougar soccer program with 1st year head coach Ben Williams leading the team into what we hope will be an exciting new era
Aug 6, 2025

There's no special occasion quite like the beginning of a new season as we begin the 11th season of this pawd with all co-hosts (emeritus and regular) returning as Bobby, Dustin, and Sam stake their pre-season bold predictions w/at least 1 for every UH intercollegiate sport & revisit 24-25 bold predictions & find out who was the master prognosticator.

This year's pawd also features some new types of questions/predictions that we're stoked for y'all to hear!

Jul 23, 2025

The boys are doing something a bit different for this one tonight here in the waning days of July, as co-host emeritus Dustin plays some combination of Richard Dawson, Steve Harvey, and Louie Anderson hosting "Pawdcast Feud" and testing the knowledge of the regular co-hosts on various UH and UH sports-related questions

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