Pittsburgh vs. Rice
Pittsburgh and Rice first met in 1950 and have played 3 times; Rice leads the series 2–1. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Rice 2–1. Share
- Pittsburgh wins
- 1
- Rice wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1950
- Longest streak
- 2 Rice
- Current streak
- 1 Pittsburgh
- Last 10 meetings
- Rice 2–1
- Most recent
- 2017
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 15.7 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Pittsburgh
- 1–1 Pittsburgh’s record at home
- At Rice
- 1–0 Rice’s record at home
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
Biggest days
| Max Browne Pittsburgh | 28 of 32, 410 yards, 4 TD | 2017 Passing |
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).
From the newspapers
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 30, 2017 | Pittsburgh 42, Rice 10 | at Pittsburgh | ||
| Nov 3, 1951 | Rice 21, Pittsburgh 13 | at Rice | ||
| Oct 14, 1950 | 15Rice 14, Pittsburgh 7 | at Pittsburgh |
Every game is listed as played on the field.