Duke vs. Rice

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

1. Duke’s biggest win1965: Duke 41, Rice 21by 20 points
2. Rice’s biggest win2001: Rice 15, Duke 13by 2 points
3. Ranked showdown1957: Duke 7, Rice 6No. 5 Duke at No. 15 Rice

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Duke’s side (Murray 3–⁠0 against Neely). 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.

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  1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 13, 1957

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.

• Duke vs. North Carolina106 meetings, Duke 38–⁠64–⁠4
• Duke vs. Wake Forest102 meetings, Duke 60–⁠40–⁠2
• Duke vs. Georgia Tech93 meetings, Duke 35–⁠57–⁠1
• Duke vs. NC State86 meetings, Duke 44–⁠37–⁠5
• Rice vs. Texas97 meetings, Rice 21–⁠75–⁠1
• Rice vs. SMU91 meetings, Rice 41–⁠49–⁠1
• Rice vs. Baylor82 meetings, Rice 30–⁠50–⁠2
• Rice vs. Texas A&M82 meetings, Rice 27–⁠52–⁠3