Rice vs. Trinity (Texas)
Rice and Trinity (Texas) first met in 1915 and have played 6 times; Rice leads the series 4–1–1. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Rice 4–1. Share
- Rice wins
- 4
- Trinity (Texas) wins
- 1
- Ties
- 1
- First meeting
- 1915
- Longest streak
- 3 Rice
- Current streak
- 1 Rice
- Last 10 meetings
- Rice 4–1
- Most recent
- 1928
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 16.5 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Rice
- 3–1–1 Rice’s record at home
- At Trinity (Texas)
- 0–1 Trinity (Texas)‘s record at home
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Rice’s biggest win1915: Rice 46, Trinity (Texas) 0by 46 points
- Trinity (Texas)‘s biggest win1925: Trinity (Texas) 13, Rice 0by 13 points
- Upset1925: Trinity (Texas) 13, Rice 0Trinity (Texas) had a 15% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
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.
From the newspapers
1919 · Pine Bluff daily graphic, Oct 5, 1919
1921 · Amarillo daily news. (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, Texas, Nov 19, 1921
1928 · Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, Oct 14, 1928
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
| Oct 13, 1928 | Rice 20, Trinity (Texas) 6 | at Rice | ||
| Oct 9, 1926 | Rice 6, Trinity (Texas) 6 | at Rice | ||
| Oct 10, 1925 | Trinity (Texas) 13, Rice 0 | at Rice | ||
| Nov 18, 1921 | Rice 28, Trinity (Texas) 14 | at Trinity (Texas) | ||
| Oct 4, 1919 | Rice 12, Trinity (Texas) 0 | at Rice | ||
| Oct 2, 1915 | Rice 46, Trinity (Texas) 0 | at Rice |
Every game is listed as played on the field.