Rice vs. Sam Houston

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

1. Rice’s biggest win1948: Rice 46, Sam Houston 0by 46 points
2. Sam Houston’s biggest win2024: Sam Houston 34, Rice 14by 20 points
3. Upset1939: Sam Houston 9, Rice 8Sam Houston had a 11% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset2024: Sam Houston 34, Rice 14Sam Houston had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Rice’s side (Heisman 4–⁠0 against Jones). 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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  1923 · San Antonio light, San Antonio, Tex., Oct 7, 1923

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.

• 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
• Sam Houston vs. Northwestern State17 meetings, Sam Houston 12–⁠5
• Sam Houston vs. Stephen F. Austin17 meetings, Sam Houston 14–⁠3
• Sam Houston vs. McNeese16 meetings, Sam Houston 8–⁠8
• Sam Houston vs. Nicholls16 meetings, Sam Houston 13–⁠3