It’s not easy to create a football program out of thin air, but the Houston Baptist Huskies are giving it a shot. In 2013, the Huskies played their first-ever season of college football. Naturally, it was easy to find cheap Houston Baptist football tickets at the very beginning. However, the Huskies are slowly but surely finding their footing. In the football-loving state of Texas, it could be just a matter of time until the Huskies find their way and make last-minute Houston Baptist football tickets a hot commodity in the Lone Star State.

Just the Beginning

More than a year before the Huskies played their first game, they hired Vic Shealy to serve as their first head coach. Shealy won an NAIA National Championship as the head coach of Azusa Pacific and spent over a decade as an assistant at the FBS level before leading the Huskies. In 2014, the Huskies officially became part of the Southland Conference at the FCS level and avoided a last-place finish in their first season by defeating Nichols State.

Finding Their Way

There’s no sugarcoating the fact that it was difficult for Houston Baptist to find some traction in its first few years as a football program. In fact, the Huskies went winless inside the Southland three times in their first five seasons while competing against far more experienced programs, some of whom are among the best in the country at the FCS level.

However, Shealy has quietly created a strong foundation at Houston Baptist. The Huskies have started to schedule FBS programs and nearly upset UTEP to open the 2019 season and were equally close to beating Texas Tech in 2020. Based on the progress Shealy has made in his first handful of seasons at Houston Baptist, it’s only a matter of time until the Huskies become a serious force inside the Southland.