Texas Longhorns vs Rice Owls Odds & Free College Football Pick

Not certain you may call Texas vs. Rice an in-state rivalry when they meet Saturday at Houston. I meanthey are in Texas, but the Owls haven’t won a game in the show since 1994. Just how was that? ESPN was desperate for something to broadcast on a Sunday because the MLB season was canceled due to the players’ strike, so Texas-Rice was transferred to Sunday.
Overall, Texas leads the show 72-21-1, 23-13-1 at Houston, 3-0 in NRG Stadium and has taken the previous 13 overall. Before that has been dissolved in May 1996, they were both in the Southwest Conference. Naturally, Texas is in the Big 12 and Rice in Conference USA. The last meeting was in 2015.
Rice just isn’t a good program with only 11 wins since 2015. They were 1-11 in David Bailiff’s final period in 2017 and”improved” into 2-11 last year under first trainer Mike Bloomgren. The only reason Rice got to play with 13 games was because any school that travels to Hawaii is allowed to for monetary reasons. The Owls’ wins last year were Prairie View A&M (hardly ) and Old Dominion.
The Owls and Week 1 at a loss at a good Army team played fairly well but then dropped 41-21 last week, this season. Beginning quarterback Wiley Green left one sent to the hospital and with a injury which had him carted off. All evaluations were negative on the redshirt freshman. I tend to doubt he plays here. Senior Tom Stewart seems likely to start. The Harvard transfer was 19-for-30 for 185 yards and a touchdown instead of Green vs. Wake Forest.
Maybe Stewart will improve an offense that ranks 120th in yards per game (282.0), 118th in scoring (14.0) and 113th in passing (158.0). Rice is better for standing 128th in pass performance D, defense and 118th from the rush.
Rice is 3-6 all time playing NRG Stadium; it usually plays on campus. The Owls haven’t beaten a ranked team since Nov. 11, 1997, vs. No. 21 BYU.
Texas fans are definitely bummed their group lost 45-38 at home to LSU a week at the very first and still only Best 10 matchup of the year, however, UT is still in fine shape to generate the College Football Playoff when it wins out, including the Big 12 title game. Every year but a team, one has won the national title. No team has reached the playoff. Nine of Texas’ 11 losses under Tom Herman have come by 10 points or fewer.
Junior Sam Ehlinger has become one of the country quarterbacks. An excellent LSU defense was torched by him for 401 yards and four touchdowns a week when running for a score. It was the sixth passing game in Texas history and the first as Colt McCoy vs UCF in 2009. Ehlinger the best quarterback since McCoy of UT , also tied his career best with all the five TDs. 31 touchdowns have been pitched by him to just three interceptions. Texas is currently 11-4 in that span, including five wins over ranked teams.
1 injury notice from this LSU loss was that nickel cornerback BJ Foster hurt his hamstring and will miss a few weeks. He started six games as a freshman in 2018, recording 45 tackles, including nine for a loss and 2.5 sacks, to proceed with an interception.
It is definitely not a matter of if Texas wins . I have a tendency to think the Horns may be somewhat flat in their first”road” game of the year and following that . LSU. Additionally, UT opens Big 12 play next week with a far harder challenge . Oklahoma State.
Free NCAAF Pick: Rice +32.5 (-112) at Pinnacle

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