The 2017 season's largest margin: Rice 31, UTEP 14. A 17-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2017 — The Correction
2017 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
- Miklo SmallsQB623 passing yards
- Jackson TynerQB598 passing yards
- Nahshon EllerbeRB409 rushing yards
- Aston WalterRB400 rushing yards
- Emmanuel EsukpaRB261 rushing yards
- Aaron CephusWR622 receiving yards
- Kylen GransonTE241 receiving yards
- Emmanuel EllerbeeLB120 tackles
- Brian WomacDE54 tackles
- Destri WhiteS49 tackles
- Roe WilkinsDT6.5 sacks
- Zach AbercrumbiaDT2 sacks
Season leaders, 2017.
The season's deepest loss: Rice 7, Stanford 62. A 55-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Go Owls"
2017 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.