Football games get decided in the second half. Recruiting gets decided in the stands by young men who came to watch and left having made up their minds. Saturday at TDECU, No.22 Houston gave them both. The Cougars climbed out of a hole against UCF, and by the time the stadium emptied, flip season had arrived on Cullen Boulevard. Jason Wooden, the three star wide receiver from McKinney Emerson, walked in fresh off a decommitment from Iowa State. He took in the game from the stands and saw a team that wouldn't quit. By the final whistle he was a converted Coog. He's a Texas kid who stays in…
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