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2024 Rice Football Season Preview: Safety

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Next up in our 2024 Rice Football Season Preview: safety. Here’s our breakdown of the Owls’ plans for the group this season.

One of the younger rooms on the Rice football roster, the safety position boasts an interesting mix of established veterans and up-and-coming players looking to make a name for themselves. Gabe Taylor is the household name here, but he might not be the only man at this position to make a significant impact on the field this fall. Who else will step up beside him?

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2024 Rice Football Season Preview live now

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The 2024 Rice Football season is right around the corner. Season Preview content starts rolling out this week! Subscribe now for access.

In prior years, The Roost has offered digital magazines previewing the upcoming Rice Football and conference seasons. To streamline the process and give you one place to access everything, we made the transition to Patreon to ensure everything is in one place.

For the upcoming 2024 season, all Rice football season preview content and opponent previews will be available for subscribers on Patreon and gathered into one portal on the website right here. Not a subscriber yet? We’re offering a 7-day free trial.

Subscribers will get access to every premium update on the site during their trial period. That includes hundreds of posts… and counting. There are a couple of 2024 Rice Football season preview pieces already on the site and more will be pushed out over the next several weeks.

Read the previews, check out some of our recent features, go back and refresh yourself on spring ball and more. Then, once you’ve seen checked it out yourself, we hope you make the decision to stick around for the season.

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Grab Bag: What’s going on around Rice Athletics? May 2024 Q&A

Posted: May 25, 2024

Rather than drill down on one topic, subscribers had a variety of questions this month touching all areas of Rice Athletics. We hit on them all. A lot is going on around Rice Athletics right as the academic year winds down. This mailbag touches on a host of topics ranging from the state of college […]

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Rice Football 2024 Spring Notebook 9: Offensive Takeaways

Posted: April 19, 2024

A new Rice football quarterback debuted and a host of pass catchers made their marks. Here’s what we learned from that side of the ball during spring practices. EJ Warner looked the part in his first-ever snaps in a Rice football uniform, but he wasn’t the only standout from the offense this spring. Without the […]

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Rice Football Recruiting: Breaking Down the 2024 Signees – Offense

Posted: February 7, 2024

The 2024 Rice Football Recruiting class is loaded with a top-flight quarterback and lots of skill talent. Here’s how this side of the ball stacks up. With the addition of 10 players on National Signing Day, the 2024 Rice football recruiting class has grown to 23 players. Of those players, 16 are current high school […]

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2023 Rice Football Season Preview: Linebacker

Posted: July 22, 2023

Next up in our 2023 Rice Football Season Preview: linebacker. Let’s dive into the position and break down the Owls’ plans for the group this year. It took some time to get there, but Rice football found some stability at linebacker in 2022, replacing the electric duo of Blaze Alldredge and Antonio Montero without any […]

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Rice Football: Luke McCaffrey, Wide Receiver — Patreon Q&A

Posted: March 31, 2022

All eyes are on the newest Rice football wide receiver Luke McCaffrey, the focal point of our March 2022 Patreon Q&A. On the opening day of spring practice, Rice football head coach Mike Bloomgren almost nonchalantly mentioned Luke McCaffrey had been the one who suggested he move from quarterback to wide receiver. The comments added […]

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AAC Football: Circa Sports releases preseason champion odds

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Circa Sports has released preseason conference championship odds. Who are the favorites and how do the rest of the AAC Football teams stack up?

As the summer months move along the first inklings of football season approaching are upon us. Circa Sports released preseason conference championship odds on Sunday, including their odds for the AAC Football Champion. Memphis is the favorite, with Tulane and UTSA right on their heels. Here’s the odds for every team in the league:

  1. Memphis (+300)
  2. Tulane (+350)
  3. UTSA (+400)
  4. USF (+700)
  5. Army (+1500)
  6. North Texas (+1500)
  7. ECU (+2000)
  8. FAU (+2000)
  9. Rice (+2000)
  10. Tulsa (+2500)
  11. UAB (+2500)
  12. Charlotte (+4000)
  13. Temple (+25000)

As far as Circa Sports is concerned, they view this league as a four-team race with the teams with the fifth-best odds (Army and North Texas) more than double the odds of the fourth team in the list, South Florida. The Bulls seem to be getting a lot of preseason buzz following their breakout 20243 campaign in their first season under the leadership of Alex Golesh.

Temple was the only team signaled out as a complete longshot. Those Owls lost quarterback EJ Warner to Rice this offseason. The Houston-based Owls join a smattering of teams with very similar odds in the middle of the pack. That suggests a very competitive middle of the pack and hopefully an exciting back and forth that makes each Saturday in the league exciting once again.

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Rice Baseball: Postseason Transfer Updates

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Rice baseball has not escaped the negative effects of the Transfer Portal. Here’s the latest since the season ended.

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Rice Baseball ends regular season with sweep by ECU

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Rice Baseball ended its regular season with a sweep at the hands of East Carolina and now must await its postseason fate as other teams finish play.

FRIDAY | ECU 8 – Rice 2

Parker Smith labored through eight innings on Friday night, more or less keeping the ECU offense at bay in six of those frames. The Pirates made him pay in those two decisive innings, though, putting up a four-spot in the fourth and a three-spot in the eighth.

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Unfortunately for Smith, he didn’t get much help from the Rice bats. Rice scored once on a sac fly in the second and once again on a fielder’s choice in the seventh. Runs were hard to come by on a night when the offense totaled just four hits and did not draw any walks.

SATURDAY (AM) | ECU 15 – Rice 5 (8 innings)

A short day from JD McCracken led to a disastrous beginning of a Saturday doubleheader for Rice baseball. McCracken was pulled after a four-walk first inning in favor of Garrett Stratton, who faired even worse in the second inning, surrendering seven runs before being lifted himself for Mark Perkins. Despite chipping into the lead with a pair of runs of their own in the top half of the second, Rice entered the third inning trailing 11-2.

Another slow start for the bats was not enough to overcome the massive early deficit. Rice tallied five hits and five runs, three of which came on solo home runs by Kyte McDonald, Pierce Gallo and Trey Duffield. None of them were enough to prevent ECU from winning the game via a run-rule decision in the eighth.

SATURDAY (PM) | ECU 6 – Rice 4

East Carolina got out in front in the first inning with a two-run home run, putting the Owls behind the eight ball once again. This time, though, the bats woke up. Six consecutive hits and four runs later, Rice was in front. Max Johnson delivered the first RBI whack with a two-run double. Kyte McDonald added another RBI hit and then Treyton Rank drove in run number four.

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ECU got one run back in the second, then Rice called on Davion Hickson to go the rest of the way. He held the Pirates to six hits in 4.1 innings of work, but five of those hits came consecutively in the sixth inning, allowing ECU to retake the lead, 6-4. They would hold on to win by that score.

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