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Houston 2018 season recap: Cougars head in new direction after disappointing year
The Cougars moved on from Major Applewhite after a late-season collapse.
Houston football hired Major Applewhite to continue the successful habits of the Tom Herman era. Just two years in, the administration decided that experiment was a failure.
The Cougars lost multiple bad games down the stretch, capped off by an embarrassing 70-14 loss in the bowl game. They lost their starting quarterback before the end of the year, and made more headlines for Applewhite and Ed Oliver’s spat over a jacket than anything on the football field.
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