Some recruits are sold in a meeting room. Jason Wooden was sold in a locker room, which is where a football team keeps the truth. He came to TDECU this weekend a young man between addresses. Days earlier, the three-star athlete from Emerson in McKinney had reopened his recruitment, stepping away from a pledge to Iowa State, where the Cyclones had pictured him at linebacker. He walked out of Houston's 27-17 comeback win over UCF as a Cougar, and with a new job description. That is the quiet coup tucked inside the loud afternoon. While the Coogs spent a first half hunting for their footing and…
Inside Jason Wooden's flip to Houston: 'It was the culture'."
The former Iowa State commit takes us inside his commitment to Houston: a comeback win over UCF, a joyous locker room and a new position.

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