The 2016 season's largest margin: Rice 65, Prairie View A&M 44. A 21-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2016 — The Correction
2016 is a losing-side chapter for Rice. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Tyler StehlingQB2,049 passing yards
- Jackson TynerQB318 passing yards
- Samuel StewartRB479 rushing yards
- Darik DillardRB452 rushing yards
- Aston WalterRB343 rushing yards
- Temi AlakaWR458 receiving yards
- Kylen GransonTE381 receiving yards
- Zach WrightWR324 receiving yards
- Emmanuel EllerbeeLB111 tackles
- Alex LyonsLB91 tackles
- Destri WhiteS59 tackles
- Preston GordonDL3.5 sacks
- Brian WomacDE2 sacks
- Graysen SchantzDE2 sacks
Season leaders, 2016.
The season's deepest loss: Rice 16, Louisiana Tech 61. A 45-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Go Owls"
2016 sits in Rice's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.