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2025 Rice Football Season Preview: Linebacker

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

Once again, the Rice football linebacker room is fully stocked with top-of-the-line talent hindered more by the lack of available starting positions than by a lack of athletes to fill those roles. Sorting out playing time will be the challenge here, but that’s exactly the kind of problem defensive coordinator Jon Kay would prefer to have.

Rice Football Preseason Preview: Check out the rest of the series here.

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American Conference Media Days Roundup

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American Conference Media Days were held this week in Charlotte, NC. Here’s a roundup of important news, quotes and insights from the event.

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Tulane is the Favorite in 2025 American Conference Preseason Media Poll

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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

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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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2025 Rice Football Opponent Season Preview: Memphis

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Memphis is reloading, but expectations haven’t come down as the team retools its roster on the fly. What can Rice Football expect from the Tigers in 2025?

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

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