Rice vs. SMU

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

1. Rice’s biggest win1916: Rice 146, SMU 3by 143 points
2. SMU’s biggest win1978: SMU 58, Rice 0by 58 points
3. Upset1989: Rice 35, SMU 6Rice had a 18% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1949: Rice 41, SMU 27Rice had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1954: SMU 20, Rice 6SMU had a 31% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
6. Ranked showdown1950: SMU 42, Rice 21No. 3 SMU at No. 15 Rice

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Rice’s side (Meagher 1–⁠4 against Morrison). 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.

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

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  1931 · The Washington times, District of Columbia, Oct 19, 1931

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  1932 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 9, 1932

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  1934 · Evening star, Oct 14, 1934

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  1935 · The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, Oct 21, 1935

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  1939 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Dec 10, 1939

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. Baylor82 meetings, Rice 30–⁠50–⁠2
• Rice vs. Texas A&M82 meetings, Rice 27–⁠52–⁠3
• Rice vs. TCU79 meetings, Rice 35–⁠41–⁠3
• SMU vs. TCU103 meetings, SMU 42–⁠54–⁠7
• SMU vs. Baylor83 meetings, SMU 36–⁠40–⁠7
• SMU vs. Texas A&M81 meetings, SMU 29–⁠45–⁠7
• SMU vs. Arkansas73 meetings, SMU 31–⁠37–⁠5