Florida vs. Rice

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

1. Florida’s biggest win1977: Florida 48, Rice 3by 45 points
2. Rice’s biggest win1954: Rice 34, Florida 14by 20 points

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Florida’s side (Woodruff 1–⁠2–⁠1 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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  1953 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 21, 1953

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  1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 19, 1954

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.

• Florida vs. Georgia104 meetings, Florida 44–⁠58–⁠2
• Florida vs. Auburn86 meetings, Florida 40–⁠44–⁠2
• Florida vs. Kentucky76 meetings, Florida 54–⁠22
• Florida vs. LSU72 meetings, Florida 34–⁠35–⁠3
• 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