With the start of the 2020 college football season tentatively set to kick off in a few months, CBS Sports recently released the top 130 teams in the NCAA, in which the Cougars are No. 91 in the country ranking ninth amongst American Athletic Conference teams.
Coming off a 4-8 season under first-year head coach Dana Holgorsen that saw Houston quarterback D’Eriq King sit out for most of the year after playing in only four games, the Cougars must now move forward with a new leader on offense after his transfer to Miami.
Outside of King, Houston also lost 14 seniors from 2019, most notably offensive-tackle Josh Jones, who is projected by some to go as high as the first round in the 2020 NFL Draft.