Saturday, November 26
Denton, TX
1 p.m.
Rice University
at
North Texas
Game 12: Rice at North Texas
11/25/2022 8:55:00 PM | Football
141st and final game in Conference USA
Game #12
Who: Rice (5-6, 3-4 CUSA) at North Texas (6-5, 5-2 CUSA)
When: Saturday 1:00 p.m. CT
Where: Denton, Texas
Stadium: Apogee Stadium
Television ESPN+ Kyle Youmans (PxP), He'Kema Harrison (Analyst)
Where to Find the Game: Watch
Rice Radio: JP Heath (play-by-play), Nate Griffin (analyst), Jason Metko (sidelines)
Audio Streaming: RiceOwls.com, Rice Game Day App, Varsity Network
Live Stats: Statbroadcast.com
Digital Game Program: Game 12 Rice @ North Texas
Series Information: North Texas leads 7-5
Full Game Notes
Series Notes
• This is the 13th meeting between the two schools, with North Texas leading 7-5, and the 10th and final as members of C-USA (UNT leads 6-3).
• The series began with a non-conference meeting in 1988 when the Mean Green, who were headed to the 1-AA playoffs, stormed to a 33-3 lead, and won 33-17.
• This is the fifth meeting between the two at Apogee Stadium (UNT 3-1) and the sixth between the schools in Denton (UNT 3-2).
• Rice's first win at Apogee game on 9/19/15 as Driphus Jackson set career highs from completions (29) and yardage (373) as the Owls stormed back from a 10-7 deficit in the second quarter to present head coach David Bailiff with his 50th career win at Rice.
• The Owls won the only meeting at Fouts Field on 9/11/10 33-32 thanks to four field goals from Chris Boswell.
• Rice's first win over the Mean Green came in 2008 as the Owls scored their most points in a game in the modern era, winning 77-20. Chase Clement and Jarett Dillard etched their names into the NCAA record book, becoming the most productive duo in NCAA history by connecting on three touchdown passes to raise their career total to 41. They went on to finish with 52.
• The Owls' most recent win was on Senior Day in 2019, 20-14.
54 for 53
Senior offensive lineman Shea Baker will play in his 54th consecutive game on Saturday and make his 53rd career start on the offensive line. He has made 32 starts at center and 20 at guard in his career, dating back to making his debut with a start at center vs. Prairie View on 8/25/18. Baker has taken 750 snaps this season and passed 3,500 in his career last Saturday.
More Numbers
• Bradley Rozner's 1,603 career receiving yards rank eighth in school history. Former teammate Austin Trammell is seventh with 1,744.
• Rozner leads C-USA and ranks fifth nationally with an average of 20.7 yards per catch (35/733) which is the best average by an Owl with at least 30 receptions since Bill Howton averaged 22.6 (33/747) in 1951.
• Cameron Montgomery leads the Owls in rushing with a career-best 499 yards and is averaging 6.0 per carry (75 carries)... The last Owl to have at least 450 yards and average better that 6.0 per carry was Samuel Stewart who averaged 6.3 (76/479) in 2016. The last Owl to lead the team with 500 or more yards and average better than 6.0 per carry was Charles Ross who averaged 6.1 (211/1,280) in 2013.
• Jack Bradley has set career highs with 27 receptions, 235 yards and two touchdowns (13 for 118 and 1 TD in the last four games. His reception total is the most by an Owls' TE since Connor Cella caught 31 for 302 yards in 2016. The last TE with more than 31 receptions in a season was Vance McDonald in 2012 (36-458).
• Christian VanSickle's streak of 10 consecutive field goals to open the season ended last Saturday, but his streak is the longest by an Owl since at least 1975 (as far back as the game books are on file) to open the season with 10 consecutive conversions... The school record for field goal percentage in a season is 90.9 by Haden Tobola who hit 10 of 11 in 2018. VanSickle's current average of 83.3 would rank third at Rice.
• The career mark at Rice is 81.8 by Derek Crabtree (28-33 from 1998-2001). VanSickle's career mark of 73.7 (14-19) would rank third but he needs one additional attempt to qualify for the rankings.
• VanSickle has moved into sixth on the Rice career list with 63 career PATs.
C-USA Swan Song
Saturday's game will be the final home game for Rice as a member of Conference USA. Rice is 59-81(.418) in Conference USA since joining the league in 2005, including a 34-35 record in games played at Rice Stadium, 0-1 at NRG Stadium, and 25-45 on the road.
Rice's C-USA Career Leaders
Points: Chris Boswell, 229
Touchdowns: Jarett Dillard, 43
Passing: Chase Clement 625-1,055-26, 7,329 yards, 80 TDs \
Rushing: Charles Ross 297-1,603 yards 20 TDs
Receiving: Jarett Dillard 194-2,678 yds. 43 TDs
Total Offense: Chase Clement 8,754 yards, 98 total touchdowns
Field Goals: Chris Boswell, 36
Tackles: Travis Bradshaw, 199
Sacks: Scott Solomon, 17
Interceptions: Bryce Callahan, 8
Rice C-USA Firsts and Single-Game Highs
Memorable Moments
11/19/05-UCF 31, Rice 28. Jarett Dillard catches a 6-yard TD pass from Joel Armstrong, the first of 15 consecutive games he would catch at least one TD (second best total in NCAA history)
11/11/06- Rice 41,@ Tulsa 38- Dillard catches a 25-yard TD from Chase Clement after Rice forced a Tulsa field goal to open the second overtime and give the Owls an improbable win over the defending conference champions. Rice was held to just 209 yards but created four turnovers to win its fourth in a row and continue its march to its first bowl game in 45 years.
11/25/06-Rice 31, SMU 27- Dillard catches a 25-yard TD pass from Armstrong with 4:05 left (his 14th consecutive game with a TD) to put Rice ahead to stay as Rice clinches its first bowl berth since 1961.
10/3/07- Rice 31,@ Southern Miss 29- Playing on Wednesday in front of a national audience on ESPN, Rice starts fast and then holds off a late charge to give David Bailiff his first win at Rice. James Casey is called upon to play multiple positions and shares a sack and is credited with a special teams tackle in addition to rushing for a TD and catching two passes.
11/3/07-Rice 56, UTEP 48- Chase Clement throws for six TD and rushes for two more as Rice outscores UTEP 28-0 in the last 11 minutes to pull out the win.
8/29/08-Rice 56, SMU 27- The Friday night season-opener on ESPN was meant to showcase the debut of June Jones as SMU's coach, but after spotting the Ponies a 13-0 lead Rice roars back behind six TDs from Clement serving notice the Owls would be a contender in 2008.
11/29/08-Rice 56, Houston 42- With both teams bowl eligible for the first time when playing for the Bayou Bucket, the Owls dash Houston's hopes of reaching the C-USA title game in front of over 30,000
11/17/12-Rice 36, SMU 14- Chris Boswell kicks five field goals to outscore SMU on his own and keep the Owls' late-season dash to bowl alive.
11/24/12- Rice 33,@UTEP 24- Jeremy Eddington's 97-yard kickoff return with 6:32 left cemented Rice's fourth straight win to end the season and get the Owls to 6-6 and into a bowl.
11/16/13-Rice 52, LA Tech 14- Rice rebounds from a road loss at North Texas and rallies around head coach David Bailiff, whose father had passed away earlier in the week as Charles Ross sets a school record with five rushing TDs
12/7/13-Rice 41, Marshall 24 Rice rolls over the favored Herd to win its first outright conference title since 1954.
9/9/17- Rice 31,@ UTEP 14- After a loss to Stanford in Sydney, Australia and then another five days away from home due to the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, the Owls make an early 17-0 lead hold up.
11/24/18-Rice 27, ODU 13 Juma Otoviano rushes for the most yards by an Owl in a C-USA game at Rice Stadium to end Mike Bloomgren's first season with a conference home win.
11/23/19-Rice 20, UNT 14 Treshawn Chamberlain's breakup of a Mason Fine pass in the end zone held off a late Mean Green charge and give Rice the second of three consecutive confere nce wins to end the season.
12/5/20- Rice 20,@ MARSHALL 0- Rice's defense intercepted five Grant Wells passes and held Marshall's high-scoring offense to just 245 yards of offense as the Owls earned its first victory over a ranked opponent since 1997 and its first shutout of a ranked opponent t by the Owls
since a 7-0 win over #16 Texas at Rice Stadium on October 22, 1960.
10/23/21- Rice 30, @UAB 24 Rice rebounded from a 45-0 loss at UTSA to had the defending Conference USA champions their first home loss to a conference opponent since the program returned in 2017 (15 games).
11/27/21-Rice 35, LA Tech 31 TJ McMahon came off the bench to throw for 191 yards and connected on a pair of touchdowns in the final four minutes to lead Rice to a thrilling 35-31 win over Louisiana Tech and send 26 seniors out with a victory in their final home game at Rice Stadium.
Who: Rice (5-6, 3-4 CUSA) at North Texas (6-5, 5-2 CUSA)
When: Saturday 1:00 p.m. CT
Where: Denton, Texas
Stadium: Apogee Stadium
Television ESPN+ Kyle Youmans (PxP), He'Kema Harrison (Analyst)
Where to Find the Game: Watch
Rice Radio: JP Heath (play-by-play), Nate Griffin (analyst), Jason Metko (sidelines)
Audio Streaming: RiceOwls.com, Rice Game Day App, Varsity Network
Live Stats: Statbroadcast.com
Digital Game Program: Game 12 Rice @ North Texas
Series Information: North Texas leads 7-5
Full Game Notes
Series Notes
• This is the 13th meeting between the two schools, with North Texas leading 7-5, and the 10th and final as members of C-USA (UNT leads 6-3).
• The series began with a non-conference meeting in 1988 when the Mean Green, who were headed to the 1-AA playoffs, stormed to a 33-3 lead, and won 33-17.
• This is the fifth meeting between the two at Apogee Stadium (UNT 3-1) and the sixth between the schools in Denton (UNT 3-2).
• Rice's first win at Apogee game on 9/19/15 as Driphus Jackson set career highs from completions (29) and yardage (373) as the Owls stormed back from a 10-7 deficit in the second quarter to present head coach David Bailiff with his 50th career win at Rice.
• The Owls won the only meeting at Fouts Field on 9/11/10 33-32 thanks to four field goals from Chris Boswell.
• Rice's first win over the Mean Green came in 2008 as the Owls scored their most points in a game in the modern era, winning 77-20. Chase Clement and Jarett Dillard etched their names into the NCAA record book, becoming the most productive duo in NCAA history by connecting on three touchdown passes to raise their career total to 41. They went on to finish with 52.
• The Owls' most recent win was on Senior Day in 2019, 20-14.
54 for 53
Senior offensive lineman Shea Baker will play in his 54th consecutive game on Saturday and make his 53rd career start on the offensive line. He has made 32 starts at center and 20 at guard in his career, dating back to making his debut with a start at center vs. Prairie View on 8/25/18. Baker has taken 750 snaps this season and passed 3,500 in his career last Saturday.
More Numbers
• Bradley Rozner's 1,603 career receiving yards rank eighth in school history. Former teammate Austin Trammell is seventh with 1,744.
• Rozner leads C-USA and ranks fifth nationally with an average of 20.7 yards per catch (35/733) which is the best average by an Owl with at least 30 receptions since Bill Howton averaged 22.6 (33/747) in 1951.
• Cameron Montgomery leads the Owls in rushing with a career-best 499 yards and is averaging 6.0 per carry (75 carries)... The last Owl to have at least 450 yards and average better that 6.0 per carry was Samuel Stewart who averaged 6.3 (76/479) in 2016. The last Owl to lead the team with 500 or more yards and average better than 6.0 per carry was Charles Ross who averaged 6.1 (211/1,280) in 2013.
• Jack Bradley has set career highs with 27 receptions, 235 yards and two touchdowns (13 for 118 and 1 TD in the last four games. His reception total is the most by an Owls' TE since Connor Cella caught 31 for 302 yards in 2016. The last TE with more than 31 receptions in a season was Vance McDonald in 2012 (36-458).
• Christian VanSickle's streak of 10 consecutive field goals to open the season ended last Saturday, but his streak is the longest by an Owl since at least 1975 (as far back as the game books are on file) to open the season with 10 consecutive conversions... The school record for field goal percentage in a season is 90.9 by Haden Tobola who hit 10 of 11 in 2018. VanSickle's current average of 83.3 would rank third at Rice.
• The career mark at Rice is 81.8 by Derek Crabtree (28-33 from 1998-2001). VanSickle's career mark of 73.7 (14-19) would rank third but he needs one additional attempt to qualify for the rankings.
• VanSickle has moved into sixth on the Rice career list with 63 career PATs.
C-USA Swan Song
Saturday's game will be the final home game for Rice as a member of Conference USA. Rice is 59-81(.418) in Conference USA since joining the league in 2005, including a 34-35 record in games played at Rice Stadium, 0-1 at NRG Stadium, and 25-45 on the road.
Rice's C-USA Career Leaders
Points: Chris Boswell, 229
Touchdowns: Jarett Dillard, 43
Passing: Chase Clement 625-1,055-26, 7,329 yards, 80 TDs \
Rushing: Charles Ross 297-1,603 yards 20 TDs
Receiving: Jarett Dillard 194-2,678 yds. 43 TDs
Total Offense: Chase Clement 8,754 yards, 98 total touchdowns
Field Goals: Chris Boswell, 36
Tackles: Travis Bradshaw, 199
Sacks: Scott Solomon, 17
Interceptions: Bryce Callahan, 8
Rice C-USA Firsts and Single-Game Highs
Memorable Moments
11/19/05-UCF 31, Rice 28. Jarett Dillard catches a 6-yard TD pass from Joel Armstrong, the first of 15 consecutive games he would catch at least one TD (second best total in NCAA history)
11/11/06- Rice 41,@ Tulsa 38- Dillard catches a 25-yard TD from Chase Clement after Rice forced a Tulsa field goal to open the second overtime and give the Owls an improbable win over the defending conference champions. Rice was held to just 209 yards but created four turnovers to win its fourth in a row and continue its march to its first bowl game in 45 years.
11/25/06-Rice 31, SMU 27- Dillard catches a 25-yard TD pass from Armstrong with 4:05 left (his 14th consecutive game with a TD) to put Rice ahead to stay as Rice clinches its first bowl berth since 1961.
10/3/07- Rice 31,@ Southern Miss 29- Playing on Wednesday in front of a national audience on ESPN, Rice starts fast and then holds off a late charge to give David Bailiff his first win at Rice. James Casey is called upon to play multiple positions and shares a sack and is credited with a special teams tackle in addition to rushing for a TD and catching two passes.
11/3/07-Rice 56, UTEP 48- Chase Clement throws for six TD and rushes for two more as Rice outscores UTEP 28-0 in the last 11 minutes to pull out the win.
8/29/08-Rice 56, SMU 27- The Friday night season-opener on ESPN was meant to showcase the debut of June Jones as SMU's coach, but after spotting the Ponies a 13-0 lead Rice roars back behind six TDs from Clement serving notice the Owls would be a contender in 2008.
11/29/08-Rice 56, Houston 42- With both teams bowl eligible for the first time when playing for the Bayou Bucket, the Owls dash Houston's hopes of reaching the C-USA title game in front of over 30,000
11/17/12-Rice 36, SMU 14- Chris Boswell kicks five field goals to outscore SMU on his own and keep the Owls' late-season dash to bowl alive.
11/24/12- Rice 33,@UTEP 24- Jeremy Eddington's 97-yard kickoff return with 6:32 left cemented Rice's fourth straight win to end the season and get the Owls to 6-6 and into a bowl.
11/16/13-Rice 52, LA Tech 14- Rice rebounds from a road loss at North Texas and rallies around head coach David Bailiff, whose father had passed away earlier in the week as Charles Ross sets a school record with five rushing TDs
12/7/13-Rice 41, Marshall 24 Rice rolls over the favored Herd to win its first outright conference title since 1954.
9/9/17- Rice 31,@ UTEP 14- After a loss to Stanford in Sydney, Australia and then another five days away from home due to the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, the Owls make an early 17-0 lead hold up.
11/24/18-Rice 27, ODU 13 Juma Otoviano rushes for the most yards by an Owl in a C-USA game at Rice Stadium to end Mike Bloomgren's first season with a conference home win.
11/23/19-Rice 20, UNT 14 Treshawn Chamberlain's breakup of a Mason Fine pass in the end zone held off a late Mean Green charge and give Rice the second of three consecutive confere nce wins to end the season.
12/5/20- Rice 20,@ MARSHALL 0- Rice's defense intercepted five Grant Wells passes and held Marshall's high-scoring offense to just 245 yards of offense as the Owls earned its first victory over a ranked opponent since 1997 and its first shutout of a ranked opponent t by the Owls
since a 7-0 win over #16 Texas at Rice Stadium on October 22, 1960.
10/23/21- Rice 30, @UAB 24 Rice rebounded from a 45-0 loss at UTSA to had the defending Conference USA champions their first home loss to a conference opponent since the program returned in 2017 (15 games).
11/27/21-Rice 35, LA Tech 31 TJ McMahon came off the bench to throw for 191 yards and connected on a pair of touchdowns in the final four minutes to lead Rice to a thrilling 35-31 win over Louisiana Tech and send 26 seniors out with a victory in their final home game at Rice Stadium.
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