Rice

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Week 10 · updated Wednesday, Nov 4

Rice has lost seven straight, its first run that long in the regular season since 2019.

Rice is 0-4 in the AAC.

  • W 31-3 vs Houston Christian
  • L 0-52 at Notre Dame
  • L 21-28 vs Western Michigan
  • L 24-38 at Fresno State
  • L 14-16 vs UTSA
  • L 12-28 at East Carolina
  • L 17-38 vs Tulsa
  • L 49-51 at Florida Atlantic
  • Next: at North Texas, Saturday, Nov 7

Scores ours first.

The last two weeks

Rice lost 49-51 at Florida Atlantic.

The whole Florida Atlantic game

Before North Texas

North Texas has won 8 of the last 12 meetings, including the last four; Rice's last win was 20-14 in 2019.

The playoff simulation gives Rice a 24% chance at North Texas on Saturday, Nov 7.

Scott Abell's seat is the 18th-hottest of 132 in the hot-seat model.

North Texas game on Now

What the North Texas game is worth

Rice's game threads have not carried enough talk for a fan mood read this season.

Fan mood, week by week

Mood over time

Position = mood · width = volume · color = the kind of feeling

More in this tab

Fan chatterThe loudest night of the season and what a usual night looks like.

Fan chatter this season

Busy

The loudest night was the 24-38 loss to Fresno State.

FirstSecondThirdFourthFresno State fansRice fansusual
The argumentThe one thing this fanbase can't agree on, with receipts.

Inside the fanbase: all 4 corners

Cr/CFB
GGoogle News
UUnderdog Dynasty
CCampus paper
BBluesky
YYouTube
6 outlets & communities talking

The split, staged

Warmest corner+0.26
Local
Most bought-in cohort
vs
Coldest corner+0.15
National take
Coolest cohort

How Rice fans actually talk

Rr/CFBFan talk

Feel a little silly for saying the line was too big in the preview threads but in my defense last year we lost 5 fumbles in the regular season. Did not anticipate 4 today

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One of the crowd’s most upvoted takes — read for mood, not as a side. The cohort read is the measured part.

From the team’s own coverage

All 4 corners of the fanbase

negative
0
positive
National take+0.15 to Local+0.26

Cohort sentiment is a source-weighted model read — never a quote pinned to a person.

What this fanbase keeps coming back to

fan energy
33%
recent results
20%
where the program is headed
10%
the schedule
9%
offense
7%

Topics are model-labeled from Reddit — a rough signal of what this fanbase is circling right now.

week 9. The sources and the divergence rank are measured. Cohort labels and sentiment are a source-weighted model estimate, never a quote attributed to a person.
Voice profileHow this fanbase sounds vs. every other fanbase.
Believers
Optimism
80th
Joy
93rd
Anger
25th
Doom
46th
Sarcasm
52nd
Vs the 127 highest-volume fanbases - 2026 season
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