Baylor vs. Rice

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

1. Baylor’s biggest win2015: Baylor 70, Rice 17by 53 points
2. Rice’s biggest win1946: Rice 38, Baylor 6by 32 points
3. Upset1989: Rice 6, Baylor 3Rice had a 16% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1981: Rice 17, Baylor 14Rice had a 20% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1991: Rice 20, Baylor 17Rice had a 22% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1949: Rice 21, Baylor 7No. 9 Baylor at No. 7 Rice
7. Ranked showdown1953: Rice 41, Baylor 19No. 17 Baylor at No. 8 Rice
8. Ranked showdown1960: Baylor 12, Rice 7No. 12 Rice at No. 19 Baylor

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Baylor’s side (Mosley 1–⁠2 against Arbuckle). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1924 · The Birmingham age-herald, Alabama, Nov 28, 1924

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  1930 · Evening star, Nov 30, 1930

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  1931 · Evening star, Nov 29, 1931

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  1933 · Evening star, Dec 3, 1933

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  1934 · , Dec 2, 1934

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 is listed as played on the field.

• Baylor vs. TCU116 meetings, Baylor 50–⁠61–⁠5
• Baylor vs. Texas112 meetings, Baylor 28–⁠79–⁠5
• Baylor vs. Texas A&M102 meetings, Baylor 29–⁠64–⁠9
• Baylor vs. Texas Tech83 meetings, Baylor 42–⁠40–⁠1
• Rice vs. Texas97 meetings, Rice 21–⁠75–⁠1
• Rice vs. SMU91 meetings, Rice 41–⁠49–⁠1
• Rice vs. Texas A&M82 meetings, Rice 27–⁠52–⁠3
• Rice vs. TCU79 meetings, Rice 35–⁠41–⁠3