The 2023 season's largest margin: Rice 59, Texas Southern 7. A 52-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2023 — The Correction
2023 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
- JT DanielsQB2,443 passing yards
- AJ PadgettQB721 passing yards
- Dean ConnorsRB771 rushing yards
- Juma OtovianoRB326 rushing yards
- Luke McCaffreyWR992 receiving yards
- Boden GroenTE383 receiving yards
- Landon Ransom-GoelzWR380 receiving yards
- Myron MorrisonLB68 tackles
- Plae WyattS65 tackles
- Gabe TaylorS46 tackles
- De'Braylon CarrollDL2 sacks
- Chike AnigboguS2 sacks
- Jonathan JeanDB2 sacks
Season leaders, 2023.
The season's deepest loss: Rice 10, Texas 37. A 27-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Rice fell to Texas State 21-45 in the postseason.
"Go Owls"
2023 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.