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2025 Rice Football Schedule Announced

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The 2025 Rice Football schedule was released by the American Conference on Friday, including a full 12-game slate.

Opponents have been known for some time, but now we have dates. All of a sudden the 2025 Rice football season is starting to take shape following an announcement by the conference office on Friday that laid out the full slate of games the Owls will undertake this fall.

The AAC released this statement concurrently with the schedule

The nonconference portion of the schedule features seven games against teams ranked in the top 25 of the final Associated Press poll of 2024, including four games against teams that reached the College Football Playoff.

Teams from The American will play eight nonconference games against opponents from the Sun Belt, seven against the SEC, five against the ACC, four each against the Big 12 and Mountain West, three against the MAC and two each against the Big Ten and Conference USA. American teams will additionally face Notre Dame, Washington State and Oregon State among others.

So, here it is, the 2025 Rice Football schedule:

DateOpponentH/A
Aug. 30, 2025LouisianaAway
Sep. 6, 2025HoustonHome
Sep. 13, 2025PVAMUHome
Sep. 18, 2025Charlotte (Thr)Away
Sep. 27, 2025NavyAway
Oct. 4, 2025Florida AtlanticHome
Oct. 11, 2025UTSAAway
Oct. 18, 2025— OFF — —
Oct. 25, 2025UConnHome
Oct. 31, 2025Memphis (Fri)Home
Nov. 8, 2025UABHome
Nov. 16, 2025— OFF ——
Nov. 22, 2025North TexasHome
Nov. 29, 2024USFAway

Note: There was a misprint in the conference release. The Louisiana game is on the road, not at home.

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Rice baseball was able to trade blows with Arizona early but ran out of steam late, dropping the midweek bout to the Wildcats by an 11-8 final score.

A smattering of loud extra-base hits against Rice baseball starter Maddox Keo saw the Owls fall into a 3-0 hole against the visiting Arizona Wildcats on Wednesday evening. Keo would be lifted in the third for Tucker Alch, who allowed a run of his own in the third before the Rice bats got going in earnest.

Gunnett Carlson got the Owls on the board with an RBI single in the second before Barrett Eldridge deposited his first home run of the season over the left field wall, leveling the score at four runs apiece.

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The back and forth would continue, with only one scoreless inning registered between the teams, a quiet fifth inning, before Arizona broke the game open in the seventh. Jackson Blank put two men on for Matt Zatopek, who allowed a bases-clearing double. He’d be lifted for Reed Gallant who allowed another multi-RBI double shortly afterward.

At that point, the damage had been done. Arizona tacked on another insurance run in the eighth to take an commanding 11-7 lead. Rice would pick up one final run on a wild pitch, but didn’t have enough juice to mount a large comeback, falling at home.

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The back end of the bullpen had already been identified as eyebrow-raising issue for Rice baseball this season, so it’s not entirely surprising to see what felt like a winnable game derailed by that aspect of the team, but the degree to which this contest imploded was shocking.

After lifting Alch in the sixth, it took five relievers for Rice to cobble together the next 2.1 innings. Garrett Stratton faced one batter and escaped a jam, so he gets a pass here, but the parade of relievers who combined to walk six while allowing just four hits were responsible for six of the Wildcats’ 11 runs.

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As is always the case with baseball, it’s a team effort. More offensive production and better fielding — Rice committed three errors — certainly would have helped, but the evidence is starting to stack up. If the pen can’t throw strikes, it’s going to be a long year for that unit regardless how talented it might be on paper.

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Rice Basketball battled Memphis to the very end but couldn’t make the key plays down the stretch to shift the result, falling to the Tigers on the road.

The first five shots Rice basketball took Wednesday night against a ranked Memphis squad on the road were off the mark. An early deficit would prove to be the fruit of a slow start with the Owls finding themselves down 10 points before they made their first field goal to cut the Tigers’ lead to 13-5 with nearly six minutes of action in the books.

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Given time to get their footing and fire back, Rice would mount a counteroffensive midway through the half, ripping off a 12-2 run to get back within two points and force a Memphis timeout. The Tigers would grind out some breathing room before the end of the half, but Rice had managed to turn the would-be rout into a competitive game at the break.

Rice would tie the game up at 46 in the early minutes of the second half and although they would keep the game close from that point onward, any leads proved elusive. The Owls’ final rally tied the game at 70, but free throw woes, turnovers and missed opportunities saw that close game evaporate in a matter of seconds. Memphis closed the game on a 14-2 run to seal the win.

Final Box | Memphis 84, Rice 72

Key takeaway | Make them earn it

Several weeks ago Memphis made 10 three-pointers in a fire fight at Tudor Fieldhouse that ended with Memphis outscoring Rice in a thriller. Memphis has made at least five threes in every game so far this season and averages 8.1 threes per contest. On Wednesday night, Memphis made two.

For the most part, the explosiveness of the Memphis offense was neutralized by a defensive game plan that made the Tigers work for every basket, forcing them to work inside and take contested shots. For 38 minutes, that plan seemed to work. Memphis couldn’t lengthen their lead quickly, allowing the Rice offense to keep pace.

The plan gave the Owls a chance, a one possession game with two minutes left in regulation against a ranked foe on the road is a step forward from where this program has been. But as so many of these close losses leaded up to this, it’s clear there’s more work to be done.

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Rice Women’s Basketball caught fire in the second quarter and ran away with a dominant home victory over the UAB Blazers.

Had it not been for a handful of pesky three-pointers from UAB, Rice women’s basketball might have run away with things in the opening quarter on Tuesday night. The Owls were held to a modest two-point advantage after one, a lead that grew quickly when the long range shot died up for the Blazers in the ensuing quarter.

Rice outscored UAB by an astounding margin of 22-5 in the next 10 minutes, taking a 19-point edge into halftime, firmly in control of the contest. Led by a game-high nine points from Victoria Flores, the Owls would only need to hold the line after the break if they wanted to secure a much-needed conference win.

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UAB refused to make it easy. The Blazers opened the second half on an 11-2 run, cutting the Owls’ lead to 10 points but the sprint would stop there. Rice responded with a 13-2 run of their own, capped by a pair of threes from Flores to catapult the Owls to a 20-point lead, their largest of the game to that point.

“Everybody was locked in,” head coach Lindsay Edmonds said, praising her team’s defensive effort to hold UAB to just four threes as well as a commanding 62-27 margin on the boards.

The big lead would prove enough wiggle room to afford Rice women’s basketball a chance to exhale and play loose in the final quarter. They’d go ahead by as many as 30 before closing out a comfortable home win, their second home conference victory by 20+ points in the past three games.

Final Box | Rice 73, UAB 48

Key takeaway | Vic-torious

Few athletes on South Main had bigger shoes to fill than Victoria Flores this season. Taking over the point guard start from Destiny Jackson was a huge responsibility for a younger player who didn’t have the same on-court success as a fixture within the program like Jackson.

Even still, the growth Flores demonstrated as the season progressed was unmistakable and the link between her progress and the Owls’ success was crystal clear. Flores scored 23 points against UAB, her 11th game this season reaching double-digits. Rice women’s basketball is 10-1 when she scores at least 10.

To put that in perspective, Rice is 7-11 when Dominique Ennis scores at least 10 and 5-7 when Malia Fisher reaches double-digits. Both of those players are crucial pieces to framework of this team, but Flores’ opens up the offense and changes the complexion of this squad when she’s at her best.

Rice will need all of its stars if it wants to replicate its late-season tournament run of a year ago. Flores has done enough to warrant inclusion in that company.

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Davion Hickson worked through plenty of traffic on the bases in his five innings of action in the series opener but limited the USC offense to one run, notching seven strikeouts. His replacement, Von Baker, allowed two runs to score, putting Rice in a 3-2 hole, with both Owls’ runs driven in by Treyton Rank in the second and sixth innings, respectively.

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The action started to pick up in earnest again in the ninth. Still trailing by one, pinch hitter Colin Robson drew a walk, moved up a single from Blaine Brown and scored on a sac fly from Landon West to tie the game. USC tacked on one in the top of the tenth before Gunnett Carlson leveled the score with a solo shot to right field.

The moment was electric, but was not long lasting. USC scored three runs in the top of the 11th off Reed Gallant before Rice went quietly in the bottom of the frame, dropping the opening game 7-4.

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Rice struck first on Sunday, pushing across two in the first inning on an RBI single from Gunnett Carlson and an error allowing Brown to score from third. Robert Fernandez held the 2-0 advantage until USC scratched one run across in the third, eventually leveling the score via a sac fly charged to JD McCracken in relief.

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Tobias Motley made sure the Owls’ time without the lead was short lived, walloping a pinch-hit home run over the right field wall to open the seventh inning. Blaine Brown and Garrett Stratton got Rice through the eighth before USC tied the game on sac fly off of Stratton in the ninth, putting the burden back on the bats to finish the game.

Michael Zito would be the hero, delivering a walk off home run — his first collegiate hit and the Owls’ first walk off home run since 2021 — to send the Owls’ off with a crowd-raising home win.

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