The 2018 season's largest margin: Rice 27, Old Dominion 13. A 14-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2018 — The Correction
2018 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
- Shawn StankavageQB1,328 passing yards
- Wiley GreenQB621 passing yards
- Aston WalterRB564 rushing yards
- Emmanuel EsukpaRB461 rushing yards
- Juma OtovianoRB364 rushing yards
- Austin TrammellWR632 receiving yards
- Aaron CephusWR565 receiving yards
- Jordan MyersTE241 receiving yards
- George NyakwolS67 tackles
- Blaze AlldredgeLB65 tackles
- Zach AbercrumbiaDT55 tackles
- Anthony EkpeLB6 sacks
- Myles AdamsDL2.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2018.
The season's deepest loss: Rice 0, UAB 42. A 42-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Go Owls"
2018 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.