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Head Coach: Ryan Silverfield
Record at School: 42-20 (5 Yr) | Career FBS Record 42-20 (5 Yr)
Offensive Coordinator: Tim Cramsey | Defensive Coordinator: Jordon Hankins
With the new offense comes a complete makeover of the Rice football tight end room. The new scheme will require some new skill sets, but fortunately for the Owls, they already had several players on campus who could fulfill those demands and impressed in their newfound tasks during the spring. This relatively unknown group could play a big role in the offense this fall.
This piece is part of our 2025 Rice Football Season Preview. Get access to it, as well as all other preview posts such as positional breakdowns, depth chart and schedule analysis and more when you subscribe on Patreon today.
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College athletics is attempting to implement significant changes in the weeks leading up to the beginning of the 2025 Rice Football season. Some of the adjustments make sense, but many of them bring uncertainty and more questions. This Q&A focuses on those outstanding items and things that require a bit more clarification to fully take in.
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The seventh edition of our Rice Football opponent summer preview series is now available in your podcast feeds. Returning guest Jared Kalmus, who covers UTSA for Alamo Audible, joins the show to refresh us on the Roadrunners and where things stand for the program following a relatively down year, if recent history should be any indication. Listen in.
You can find previous episodes on the podcast page. For now, give a listen to Episode 205.
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