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History of the Powerhouse: A deep dive into UH football’s past

As Juan Miranda waited for a flight to Virginia, he enjoyed a burger inside a restaurant at Hobby Airport when his eyes caught a TV screen that was showing a football game between Houston and Oklahoma State.

Miranda, who had just graduated from the University a year prior as a mechanical engineering technology major, slowly began to pay attention to a player in white wearing No. 7 for the Cougars, Case Keenum.

“You just need to watch this guy,” Miranda recalled his college friends say to him when he was still a student. “He’s good.”

As he continued to watch Keenum play against the Cowboys, he began to see why.