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Rice University Athletics
Rice and Arkansas return to the gridiron in 2021
8/9/2019 10:48:00 AM | Football
First meeting since 1991
Rice and Arkansas will rekindle their Southwest Conference football rivalry when the schools meet in Fayetteville, Arkansas on September 4, 2021, the schools announced on Friday.
The game replaces a previously scheduled road game for Rice at Oklahoma State, which will not be rescheduled.
The Owls and Razorbacks have meet 67 times in football, dating back to a 40-7 win by Rice in Houston in 1919. The two schools met again in 1920, 1922 & 1925 before beginning a continuous series in 1930 that ran until Arkansas left the conference after the 1991 season.
Arkansas holds a 35-29-3 overall advantage in the series, winning the most recent game 20-0 in Little Rock on November 23, 1991. Rice's last win in the series came one year earlier, 19-11 in Little Rock on November 3, 1990. The last time the schools met in Fayetteville was in 1986, with Arkansas winning 45-14.
