The 2021 season's largest margin: Rice 48, Texas Southern 34. A 14-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2021 — The Correction
2021 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
- Jake ConstantineQB1,622 passing yards
- Wiley GreenQB414 passing yards
- Ari BroussardRB569 rushing yards
- Khalan GriffinRB400 rushing yards
- Jordan MyersTE338 rushing yards
- Jake BaileyWR714 receiving yards
- Cedric Patterson IIIWR583 receiving yards
- August Pitre IIIWR494 receiving yards
- Blaze AlldredgeLB89 tackles
- Naeem SmithS64 tackles
- Elijah GarciaDL64 tackles
- Ikenna EnechukwuDE5.5 sacks
- Josh PearcyOL4.5 sacks
- Anthony EkpeLB3.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2021.
The season's deepest loss: Rice 0, Texas 58. A 58-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Go Owls"
2021 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.