Centenary (LA) vs. Rice
Centenary (LA) and Rice first met in 1927 and have played 4 times; Rice leads the series 3–1. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Rice 3–1, and Rice has won the last 3. Share
- Centenary (LA) wins
- 1
- Rice wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1927
- Longest streak
- 3 Rice
- Current streak
- 3 Rice
- Last 10 meetings
- Rice 3–1
- Most recent
- 1941
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 29.5 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Rice
- 3–1 Rice’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 3
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.
From the newspapers

1927 · Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, Nov 6, 1927
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
| Nov 1, 1941 | Rice 54, Centenary (LA) 0 | at Rice | ||
| Oct 5, 1940 | Rice 25, Centenary (LA) 0 | at Rice | ||
| Oct 7, 1939 | Rice 13, Centenary (LA) 0 | at Rice | ||
| Nov 5, 1927 | Centenary (LA) 33, Rice 7 | at Rice |
Every game is listed as played on the field.