Rice vs. Texas Tech

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

1. Rice’s biggest win1961: Rice 42, Texas Tech 7by 35 points
2. Texas Tech’s biggest win1987: Texas Tech 59, Rice 7by 52 points
3. Upset1974: Rice 21, Texas Tech 7Rice had a 23% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
4. Upset1971: Rice 9, Texas Tech 7Rice had a 25% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
5. Upset1985: Rice 29, Texas Tech 27Rice had a 28% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Rice’s side (Neely 8–⁠1 against Morgan). 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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  1945 · The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, Nov 5, 1945

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  1949 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 31, 1949

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  1960 · Evening star, Oct 30, 1960

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
• Texas Tech vs. Baylor83 meetings, Texas Tech 40–⁠42–⁠1
• Texas Tech vs. Texas73 meetings, Texas Tech 18–⁠55
• Texas Tech vs. Texas A&M70 meetings, Texas Tech 32–⁠37–⁠1
• Texas Tech vs. TCU67 meetings, Texas Tech 33–⁠31–⁠3