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Rice Football 2022: Louisiana Game Week Practice Report

September 15, 2022 By Matthew Bartlett

Rice football plays Louisiana this week, which comes to Houston riding a 15-game winning streak. Here’s what we learned from this week’s practices.

Saturday can’t get here soon enough. Rice football is eagerly awaiting another chance to get on the field after a thorough drubbing of McNeese State last weekend. This week’s opponent. Louisiana, promises to be a much tougher out.

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The Owls have been hard at work to make corrections from last weekend’s missteps and implement their game plan for the Ragin’ Cajuns. Along the way there have been some shakeups within a few position groups, injuries and a few learnings to pass along prior to Week 3.

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Rice Football 2022: USC Game Depth Chart Notes

September 1, 2022 By Matthew Bartlett

Rice football has released its depth chart for its season opener against USC. Here are the latest and a few notes on relevant players.

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Who’s missing?

Rice football has had two players medically retire since fall camp began just a few weeks ago. Gavin Reinwald, who had been the Owls’ backup tight end behind Jack Bradley, saw his season end with a torn ACL midway through camp. Wide receiver Sam Crawford, who had been in the mix for a starting spot until recently, announced his medical retirement on Thursday evening.

There’s also no Cedric Patterson on this iteration. As mentioned to our subscribers earlier in the week, he is not traveling with the team to Los Angeles.

Starting Specialists

Christian VanSickle and Conor Hunt have earned starting nods at kicker and punter respectively, this week. VanSickle beat out Washington transfer Tim Horn while Hunt beat out incumbent punter Charlie Mendes.

New names

Trey Phillippi, who until recently played offensive line, is listed as the backup to Jack Bradley at tight end (with an OR designation between himself and Boden Groen. Getting him into the game on such short notice seems like a stretch, but he’s already a capable blocker, so seeing him listed this high on the depth chart could mean he may actually see some action on Saturday.

Safety Marcus Williams has been in and out of the lineup with injuries since he arrived on campus, but he’s recently cracked the two-deep.

Getting ready for the game

The Roost has plenty of content already up and running to get you ready for Rice football vs USC this weekend.

  • Check out the Game Preview
  • See what head coach Mike Bloomgren and players had to say at this week’s press conference
  • Listen to the Roost Podcast with Yogi Roth who’s calling the game
  • Get the latest from practice with this week’s practice report (subscribers)

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Rice Football 2022 Fall Camp Notebook 5: Defense rebounds in Scrimmage 2

August 21, 2022 By Matthew Bartlett

The Rice football defense bounces back in their final scrimmage of fall camp which ended with a quarterback decision looming in the near future.

If the Rice football offense won the first scrimmage, the defense delivered the equalizing blow on Saturday night. In some ways, it marked a fitting end to fall camp, which featured a fairly balanced level of play from both sides of the ball.

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Rice has roughly two weeks before they open their season against USC. What did we learn from this final scrimmage and when will a starting quarterback be named? We now have a firm timeline for when that decision will be announced.

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Rice Football: What to expect from the kicking game — Patreon Q&A

June 25, 2022 By Matthew Bartlett

The kicking game was an adventure for Rice football last season. Will it be better this year? We tackle that question in this month’s Patreon Q&A.

Rice football made five field goals last season, the fewest in all of college football. Their 45.5 percent conversion rate on their 11 tries was dead last in the FBS. Quite literally, there is nowhere to go but up. But what does that look like? We tackle what Rice has done to address the kicking game in this month’s Patreon Q&A.

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Rice Football 2022 Spring Game Notebook: 10 Takeaways

April 17, 2022 By Matthew Bartlett

The offense won the Rice Football Spring Game, putting an exciting cap on a productive spring. Here are 10 takeaways from the spring finale.

According to the official tally, Blue (the offense) defeated Gray (the defense), 30-12 in the 2022 Rice Football Spring Game. The offense started out slow before scoring on four of its last six drives and finishing with all three offensive touchdowns after the halftime break.

In roughly 2,000 words, here are 10 takeaways from the game itself, several of the themes overlapping with trends that have manifested themselves over the course of the spring.

Get Caught Up

  • Rice Football Spring Notebook 1 – Introductions
  • Rice Football Spring Notebook 2 – Depth Chart
  • Rice Football Spring Notebook Q&A – Luke McCaffrey, WR
  • Rice Football Spring Notebook 3 – Scrimmage 1
  • Rice Football Spring Notebook 4 – Offense bounces back
  • Rice Football Spring Notebook 5 – Scrimmage 2
  • Rice Football Spring Notebook 6 – Running backs ramp up
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