There's been some pretty good news lately at Houston, not the least of which is this year's move into the higher-rent district of the Big 12. This move to the Big 12 is the Cougars' latest attempt to catch up with, among others, the Texas Longhorns, a chase which over the decades has been a bit like Wile E. Coyote pursuing the Roadrunner. Dating to the days of the old Southwest Conference, when it took Houston almost as long as King Charles would pursue Camilla before the Co ugars were admitted to the club, only to be cast adrift in 1996 when the league would disband. The privileged (including Texas) hooked up with the old Big 8 to become the Big 12, and most of the others enlisted with an expanded WAC. Not invited along to either would be Houston, which instead found a landing spot in the nascent Conference USA, eventually moving to the American, and finally in 2023 again catching up with what sort-of remains of the old SWC in the Big 12 — including Texas, which was never thrilled to have Houston join the same country club in the first place.'
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