Houston Cougars
Full department read: how the Team Visibility Score is built, what the calendar is worth in content units, which audience pools are addressable, and the 90-day sequence to move the number.
Where the score comes from
Each input normalized against the league leader, then weighted. The contribution column is what actually moves TVS.
| Input | Raw | Weight | Normalized | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MVS · Media visibility Broadcast + national media impressions across the season window. | 137.8M | 40% | 49.7 index | 19.9 |
DSPS · Digital / social Owned + earned social reach across team, athlete and fan channels. | 76.1M | 40% | 18.4 index | 7.4 |
CSRS · City / state / diaspora Addressable population in-market plus diaspora communities that convert. | 2.3M | 10% | 57.5 index | 5.8 |
SPS · Stadium presence Gate capacity — the physical activation surface per home date. | 40K | 10% | 37.2 index | 3.7 |
What the calendar is actually worth
- 13 scheduled eventsEach one is a pre / live / post content unit — three placements minimum.
- 104 clip slotsEight harvestable clips per event at conservative capture.
- 280,000 season attendance7 home dates × 40,000 seats — the physical activation surface.
- 110 athlete channelsDistribution nodes the program does not currently monetize.
Who is addressable
Band assumes the 104 clip slots and 13 event windows are packaged and sold as one season product, with the Houston market and athlete channels routed through a shared ledger. Low end is inventory-only; high end includes diaspora and commerce activation.
Businesses in this market
Who can actually write the check — firm counts, output and category budget in the club market.
1 declared interest lane unlock 29% of the local sponsor pool — a 1.27× breadth multiplier on reach.
- · Houston, TX is the commercial anchor — $648B of output and 206,413 employer firms inside the footprint.
- · Energy & utilities holds the largest slice of local budget here (15% of the pool, ~$7,270K a year) — lead the sell there.
- · 805,011 small businesses sit in these markets. Small-business packages are the fastest revenue to close because they need no national approval.
- · This business base is why Houston Cougars carries earnings potential beyond raw follower count.
- · Visibility 23.1 converts to a 2.9% capture rate against a $49.9M local sponsor pool.
- · 29,549 monetizable fans at $60/yr drive $1.77M of fan-economy revenue.
- · Capitalized at a 4x revenue multiple. Modeled estimate, not a reported valuation.
- · Every figure above is Houston Cougars's market economy priced through visibility — move the visibility score and the whole stack moves with it.
90-day activation plan
Phase-gated. Each block ends in a re-score, not a report.
- · Lock the HOUC score sheet: verify City / state / diaspora as the lead asset (57.5 index).
- · Audit every owned handle and map the 110 athlete channels into one distribution graph.
- · Price the 104 clip slots against comparable CFB inventory before any sell motion.
- · Close the Digital / social gap — it is the lowest normalized input at 18.4.
- · Stand up 3 recurring franchises around the 7 home dates (pre / live / post).
- · Activate the African / Caribbean diaspora pool in Houston with a dedicated content lane.
- · Package 13 events into a season sponsor tier at the modeled band.
- · Route athlete-channel inventory into the shared rev-share ledger.
- · Re-score at day 90; target +7.7 TVS on the next pull.
Team analysis
Live headlines, combined roster reach, sourced franchise value and viewership — storyline written only from the pulled articles.
Program details · Houston, Texas
User-supplied College D1 Sports Teams workbook, 2026-09-07. Social handles are best-known official accounts; verify on each athletics site before use. No follower counts.
| Sport | Conference | Venue | Seats | X | Site | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Football | Big 12 | TDECU Stadium | 40,000 | @UHCougarFBK | @uhcougarfbk | site |
| Basketball | Big 12 | Fertitta Center | 7,100 | @UHCougarHoops | @uhcougarhoops | site |
| W Basketball | Big 12 | Fertitta Center | 7,100 | @UHCougarHoops | @uhcougarhoops | site |
| Baseball | Big 12 | — | — | @UHCougarHoops | @uhcougarhoops | site |
| W Softball | Big 12 | — | — | @UHCougarHoops | @uhcougarhoops | site |
| W Soccer | Big 12 | — | — | @UHCougarHoops | @uhcougarhoops | site |
| W Volleyball | Big 12 | — | — | @UHCougarHoops | @uhcougarhoops | site |
Concealed value on this roster
Who is worth more than the attention they get — plus the full report as a PDF.
Players at or above this roster's median RUTS whose followers and 90-day press lag behind. Gap = RUTS minus attention. Only measured follower or press counts qualify — unknown never counts as low reach. Modeled, not reported.
Roster on file
Read live from the athlete database — every name opens that athlete's own RUTS page.
Roster & schedule
Pulled from the official league feed, every athlete scored on the RUTS spine.
Nearest programs by TVS
Price against the band these teams sit in, not against the league leader.
Load HOUC into RUTS Analysis to adjust inputs, or scope live opportunities in Houston.