1982 Houston

5–⁠5–⁠1 (4–⁠3–⁠1 Southwest Conference), coached by Bill Yeoman. Share

Schedule and results

Each game’s margin, wins above the line and losses below.

Date	Opponent	Result
Sep 11	at19Miami	L 12–⁠31	36%
Sep 18	vs13Arizona State	L 10–⁠24	44%
Sep 25	vsLamar	W 48–⁠3	78%
Oct 2	atBaylor	T 21–⁠21	43%
Oct 9	vsTexas A&M	W 24–⁠20	64%
Oct 16	at5SMU	L 14–⁠20	24%
Oct 23	vs6Arkansas	L 3–⁠38	43%
Oct 30	vsTCU	W 31–⁠27	69%
Nov 6	atTexas	L 0–⁠50	27%
Nov 20	atTexas Tech	W 24–⁠7	55%
Nov 27	vsRice	W 28–⁠21	85%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

How it ended: Beat Rice 28–⁠21; unranked in the final AP poll; 4th in the Southwest Conference.

In program history: The 40th-best season in program history by end-of-season Elo (of 81 on file).

Rd 5

Denver Broncos

1 first team, 2 second team

From Wikipedia’s 1982 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

Team	Conf.	Overall	AP final
SMU	7–⁠0–⁠1	11–⁠0–⁠1	2
Texas	7–⁠1	9–⁠3	17
Arkansas	5–⁠2–⁠1	9–⁠2–⁠1	9
Houston	4–⁠3–⁠1	5–⁠5–⁠1
Baylor	3–⁠4–⁠1	4–⁠6–⁠1
Texas A&M	3–⁠5	5–⁠6
Texas Tech	3–⁠5	4–⁠7
TCU	2–⁠6	3–⁠8
Rice	0–⁠8	0–⁠11

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied.