Box Score Stephon Johnson's Hail Mary, 49-yard touchdown catch on the final play of the game gave Houston a come-from-behind, 41-39 victory over West Virginia at TDECU Stadium in Houston, Texas.
 
The game's final 1:17 saw the two teams tally 13 points with the Mountaineers appearing to get the game-winning score when Garrett Greene completed a fourth-down pass to Hudson Clement for a 50-yard touchdown, giving WVU a 38-35 lead with just 12 seconds left. Michael Hayes' conversion kick made it a four-point game, but West Virginia was penalized for a celebration penalty on the touchdown, giving the Cougars an additional 15 yards on the ensuing kickoff to set up their miracle pass play.
  
Stacy Sneed's return got the ball to the Houston 43 with seven seconds to go. A Donovan Smith 8-yard pass to Dalton Carnes put the Cougars into position to throw a deep pass that West Virginia was unable to knock down and the football ended up in Johnson's arms among a sea of players in the end zone.

"We lost the game because of discipline," West Virginia coach Neal Brown said afterward. "Don't take your helmets off until you get to the sidelines. I just don't understand that."
 
Houston students rushed the field and once it was cleared, WVU declined the conversion kick, thus ending the game.
 
"You got to knock the ball down," Brown said. "We work on that play every Friday."
 
West Virginia's win streak ends at four and Houston gets its first-ever Big 12 victory in unforgettable fashion – for both teams.
 
Smith finished the game completing 21 of his 27 pass attempts for 253 yards and four touchdowns.
 
Greene threw for a career-high 391 yards, completing 20 of his 38 passes for one touchdown. The junior also ran for two scores.
 
WVU's Devin Carter led all receivers with five catches for 116 yards.
 
West Virginia outgained Houston 546 to 393, but Mountaineer mistakes, penalties and special teams miscues they avoided over the last four games were their undoing tonight.
 
"We just didn't play well in two of three phases, and it cost us tonight," Brown said.
 
At halftime, West Virginia trailed 14-10 despite dominating time of possession by more than nine minutes.
 
The Cougars got a 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Matthew Golden after a Hayes 27-yard field, and then turned a short field into a Donovan Smith 2-yard touchdown run with 28 seconds left in the half.
 
Houston's first four offensive possessions of the first half all resulted in punts, but West Virginia was unable to do much with the football.
 
WVU's opening offensive possession of the game went from its own 9 to the Houston 9 before the drive stalled, resulting in Hayes' short field goal. West Virginia's second possession ended in the end zone when CJ Donaldson Jr. bounced in from the 5 after getting a nice lead block from Greene in the process.
 
The Mountaineers' final four possessions of the first half netted 11, 4, 4 and 12 yards.
 
Prior to Smith's touchdown run, the Cougars had what appeared to be another return for a touchdown when Malik Fleming took Oliver Straw's punt the distance, but Alex Hogan was called for holding on the play.
 
West Virginia, needing a good offensive possession to begin the third quarter, got it. 
 
An Aaron Wilson face mask penalty called on Jahiem White's 24-yard kickoff return gave West Virginia good field position at its 44. After a pair of short runs, Greene found Carter for 19 yards to the Houston 35, setting up Greene's 35-yard touchdown pass to freshman Traylon Ray, his first as a Mountaineer. Ray's touchdown catch capped a four-play, 56-yard drive.
 
A defensive stop gave the ball back to the Mountaineers, and West Virginia appeared to be in business when Greene connected on a 42-yard pass down the middle of the field to E.J. Horton. WVU got to the Cougar 21, but then a Greene pass down the far sideline to running back Jaylen Anderson bounced out of his hands and right into the arms of Isaiah Hamilton in the end zone for an interception and a touchback.
 
On Houston's first play, Sneed took a toss sweep and raced 58 yards to the West Virginia 22. Four plays later, Smith hooked up with Joseph Manjack IV for a 15-yard touchdown – Houston's first of the second half in three Big 12 games. During that two-possession sequence, instead of West Virginia having a 10-point lead it trailed 21-17.
 
However, the Mountaineers responded with another long drive to get into the end zone. The big play was a Greene 49-yard pass to Carter to the Houston 34. A Donaldson 7-yard reception on third and 6 to the Houston 16 extended the drive, and then a Kole Taylor 13-yard catch and hurdle took the ball to the Houston 1. It took WVU two cracks to get it in from there.
 
This West Virginia lead lasted only 2:06, or the amount of time it took Houston to travel 66 yards to pay dirt. The scoring play was Smith's 8-yard fade pass to Samuel Brown in the corner of the end zone.
 
After Greene was unable to hit a wide-open Donaldson on a third-down swing pass, Houston regained possession at its 41 and made it three-for-three in touchdowns to take a 35-24 lead. A couple of Smith runs preceded his 27-yard pass to Stephon Johnson Jr. on second and 22 to give the Cougars a first down to the WVU 30.
 
Two plays later, Smith located Sneed for 21 yards as he was running out of the back of the end zone to give the Cougars an 11-point lead with 7:28 remaining.
 
It took WVU 3:46 to trim eight points off Houston's lead. Greene's short passing, a 17-yard hookup to Taylor and a defensive holding penalty on Jalen Emery gave the Mountaineers a first down at the 35. A White run for 5 yards, a Taylor 8-yard catch and a Donaldson 5-yard run set up Greene's 8-yard scramble for a touchdown.
 
West Virginia was flagged for a delay of game on its 2-point try, moving the ball back to the 8, but Greene was able to complete a pass in the back of the end zone to Ray for the successful conversion.
 
A pass interference penalty on Marcis Floyd gave Houston a first down and required West Virginia to use all three of its timeouts, but WVU got the ball back at its own 12 with 1:17 left, setting up the game's dramatic conclusion.
 
West Virginia (4-2, 2-1) returns to Milan Puskar Stadium to face Oklahoma State in a game that will kick off at 3:30 p.m. and will be televised nationally on ESPN.
 
Houston (3-3, 1-2) plays Texas next Saturday.