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Tulane is the Favorite in 2025 American Conference Preseason Media Poll

July 25, 2025 By Matthew Bartlett

Tulane is the favorite to win the American Conference in 2025, following a vote from the league’s media cohort.

In what has turned out to be a rather eventful week for the American Conference, The Roost reported Monday that the league intended to do away with its preseason media poll. The American did not return a request for comment as to why this long-standing tradition was being dropped.

In response, The Roost gathered a representative sample of media members to conduct our own poll, including representation from all 14 programs. Here are the results, with first-place votes in parentheses:

Following a runner-up finish in 2024, Tulane has been named the favorite in 2025. They edge out Navy and Memphis, the only other teams to receive first-place votes. East Carolina is the only program with a new head coach to crack the top half of the poll, coming in at seventh. Florida Atlantic, Rice, Charlotte, Temple and Tulsa bring up the next group of new coaches in their first year in the league.

When asked for comment as to why the league abruptly stopped the poll, commissioner Tim Pernetti called it an “industry-wide trend” although at this point, the American marks just the second of 12 conferences to step away from an annual preseason poll of this sort.

Pernetti went on to elaborate, saying, “The reason we’re moving away from this now, I think it’s more difficult to actually put your finger on how this should look, given that rosters look dramatically different every year. The transfer portal has created a lot of uncertainty and chaos.”

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Rice Football News and Notes from American Conference Media Days

July 24, 2025 By Matthew Bartlett

Rice Football made its initial appearances at American Conference Media Days on Thursday, eagerly describing what’s to come on South Main.

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The Roost Podcast | Ep 206 – 2025 Rice Football Opponent Previews: Houston

July 24, 2025 By Matthew Bartlett

The 2025 Rice Football season previews march on. This week, we’re joined by Sam and Bobby of the Scott and Hollman Pawdcast to talk about the upcoming Houston season.

The eighth edition of our Rice Football opponent summer preview series is now available in your podcast feeds. Friends of the podcast Sam and Bobby join the show to talk about the last scheduled meeting of the Bayou Bucket, how things are going across town, Dean Connors and more. Also, we debrief a busy week in the American. Listen in.

You can find previous episodes on the podcast page. For now, give a listen to Episode 206.

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Rice Baseball: Summer Transfer Portal Additions

July 20, 2025 By Matthew Bartlett

A wave of new Transfer Portal additions will join Rice Baseball for the 2026 season. This is a rundown of the latest names to commit to the Owls so far this summer.

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2025 Rice Football Season Preview: Tight End

July 19, 2025 By Matthew Bartlett

Next up in our 2025 Rice Football Season Preview: tight end. Here’s our breakdown of the Owls’ plans for the group this season.

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.

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