Alabama vs. Rice

Alabama and Rice first met in 1953 and have played 3 times; Rice leads the series 3–⁠0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Rice 3–⁠0, and Rice has won the last 3. Share

Alabama wins: 0
Rice wins: 3
Ties: 0
First meeting: 1953
Longest streak: 3 Rice
Current streak: 3 Rice
Last 10 meetings: Rice 3–⁠0
Most recent: 1956

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
	’0	’1	’2	’3	’4	’5	’6	’7	’8	’9	W–L
1950s											0–⁠3

Average margin: 16.3 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Rice: 2–⁠0 Rice’s record at home
Neutral sites: 0–⁠1 Alabama first
Shutouts: 1

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Both programs through the years

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Richard Chapman Rice	1953
Dan Hart Rice	1953
Dickey Maegle Rice	1953

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 23, 1956

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Sep 22, 1956	Rice 20, Alabama 13	at Rice
Sep 24, 1955	Rice 20, Alabama 0	at Rice
Jan 1, 1954	8Rice 28, Alabama 6	Neutral site	Cotton Bowl

Every game is listed as played on the field.