The Houston Cougars are three games into their second season under head coach Willie Fritz, and they're already one game away from matching their win total from their 4-8 season last year in 2024, defeating the Colorado Buffaloes 36-20 in their conference opener in front of a jam-packed TDECU Stadium in Houston Friday night.

Deion Sanders' Colorado Buffaloes football team is 1-2. They fell on Friday night to the Houston Cougars. And head coach Deion provided one explanation after the game that both makes sense but also seems fixable. Sanders thinks that Colorado's tendency to practice in the morning lets them down when they play at night.

Paxten Aaronson scored his first goal of the season in the sixth minute of stoppage time as the Colorado Rapids beat the Houston Dynamo.

To gauge the efficiency of Houston's "Prime Time" Big 12 opening victory, we take a look at the good, the bad and the ugly of it.

Colorado coach Deion Sanders changed quarterbacks but the Buffaloes could not avoid a 1-2 start, falling to Houston in their Big 12 opener.

The Colorado football drops to 1-2 (0-1 in Big 12) after being dominated by the Houston Cougars on the road to open Big 12 play.

Big 12 Conference play has arrived for coach Deion Sanders' Colorado Buffaloes. With kickoff set for 5:30 p.m. MT on Friday, Colorado will open its Big 12 slate

Ryan Staub leads the underdog Buffaloes into Houston on Friday night to take on Conner Weigman and the Cougars.

Conner Weigman threw for 222 yards and ran for 83 yards and two touchdowns — both career highs — to lead Houston over Colorado 36-20 on Friday night. The Cougars (3-0, 1-0 Big 12) were up by 5 late in the third quarter when Dean Connors ran 18 yards to get them to the 1-yard line.