American college football season
The 2017 Rice Owls football team represented Rice University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season . The Owls played their home games at the Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas , and competed in the West Division of Conference USA (C–USA). They were led by eleventh-year head coach David Bailiff . They finished the season 1–11, 1–7 in C-USA play to finish in sixth place in the West Division.
On November 27, head coach David Bailiff was fired.[1] He finished at Rice with an 11-year record of 57–80.
Schedule [ edit ] Rice announced its 2017 football schedule on January 26, 2017. The 2017 schedule consisted of 5 home, 6 away and 1 neutral site game in the regular season. The Owls hosted CUSA foes FIU , Louisiana Tech , North Texas , and Southern Miss , and traveled to Old Dominion , UAB , UTEP , and UTSA [2]
The Owls hosted one of the four non-conference opponents, Army , who was independent from a conference, and traveled to Houston from the American Athletic Conference and Pittsburgh from the Atlantic Coast Conference . Rice traveled to Sydney , Australia to face Stanford from the Pac-12 Conference .
Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance August 26 9:00 p.m. vs. No. 14 Stanford * ESPN L 7–6233,101 September 9 7:00 p.m. at UTEP CUSA.TV W 31–1419,136 September 16 7:00 p.m. at Houston * ESPN3 L 3–3838,900 September 23 6:30 p.m. FIU Stadium L 7–1318,932 September 30 11:00 a.m. at Pittsburgh * ACCRSN L 10–4233,051 October 7 5:30 p.m. Army * beIN L 12–4921,766 October 21 6:00 p.m. at UTSA STADIUM L 7–2025,270 October 28 2:30 p.m. Louisiana Tech FloFootball L 28–4219,992 November 4 2:00 p.m. at UAB L 21–5221,224 November 11 2:30 p.m. Southern Miss STADIUM L 34–4318,124 November 18 1:00 p.m. at Old Dominion ESPN3 L 21–2420,118 November 25 12:00 p.m. North Texas ESPN3 L 14–3017,956 *Non-conference game HomecomingRankings from AP Poll released prior to game All times are in Central time
Schedule Source: [3] Game summaries [ edit ] vs Stanford [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Owls 0 0 0 7 7 No. 14 Cardinal 21 17 14 10 62
At UTEP [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Owls 3 7 7 14 31 Miners 7 0 0 7 14
At Houston [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Owls 0 0 0 3 3 Cougars 17 21 0 0 38
1 2 3 4 Total Panthers 0 10 3 0 13 Owls 0 7 0 0 7
At Pittsburgh [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Owls 0 0 10 0 10 Panthers 21 7 0 14 42
1 2 3 4 Total Black Knights 21 14 7 7 49 Owls 0 0 6 6 12
At UTSA [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Owls 0 7 0 0 7 Roadrunners 10 0 10 0 20
Louisiana Tech [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Bulldogs 7 14 7 14 42 Owls 0 7 7 14 28
1 2 3 4 Total Owls 0 7 0 14 21 Blazers 21 21 7 3 52
Southern Miss [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Golden Eagles 10 12 14 7 43 Owls 0 14 13 7 34
At Old Dominion [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Owls 7 0 0 14 21 Monarchs 7 3 7 7 24
North Texas [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Mean Green 7 17 3 3 30 Owls 7 7 0 0 14
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