The Houston Cougars rolled into TDECU Stadium embracing city culture with no apologies. And turned heads across the nation with their epic entrance before facing Oregon State to kick off their 2026 campaign. The Cougars also pulled off this new pregame ritual with the help of a candy red Cadillac, sparking online reactions.
Houston busted out the new pregame walk that fired up Cougar players. An old school Cadillac with slab rims led the team out amid pyrotechnics and cheers.
So Houston popularized slab car culture during the 1990s and 2000s in the Hip-Hop scene. Famed city rappers UGK (Bun B and the late Pimp C), Slim Thug, Mike Jones, Paul Wall plus in recent years Megan Thee Stallion have shot videos or posed in front of slabs…