Rice vs. Vanderbilt
Rice and Vanderbilt first met in 1939 and have played 5 times; Vanderbilt leads the series 4–1. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Vanderbilt 4–1, and Vanderbilt has won the last 3. Share
- Rice wins
- 1
- Vanderbilt wins
- 4
- Ties
- 0
- First meeting
- 1939
- Longest streak
- 3 Vanderbilt
- Current streak
- 3 Vanderbilt
- Last 10 meetings
- Vanderbilt 4–1
- Most recent
- 2009
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 0–2 |
- Average margin
- 12.2 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Rice
- 1–3 Rice’s record at home
- At Vanderbilt
- 1–0 Vanderbilt’s record at home
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Rice’s biggest win1954: Rice 34, Vanderbilt 13by 21 points
- Vanderbilt’s biggest win2009: Vanderbilt 36, Rice 17by 19 points
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
1954 · Evening star, Oct 31, 1954
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 26, 2009 | Vanderbilt 36, Rice 17 | at Rice | ||
| Sep 13, 2008 | Vanderbilt 38, Rice 21 | at Vanderbilt | ||
| Sep 20, 1975 | Vanderbilt 9, Rice 6 | at Rice | ||
| Oct 30, 1954 | 19Rice 34, Vanderbilt 13 | at Rice | ||
| Sep 30, 1939 | Vanderbilt 13, Rice 12 | at Rice |
Every game is listed as played on the field.