Owls Obtain Oft-Scoring Offense
Game Report Posted: January 16, 2009 05:23
The Rice Owls got off to a solid start to the 2008 season with a drubbing of rival SMU, 59-7. Not only is this game worth bragging rights, it's also a conference win, which will help Rice in it's goal of trying to use it's high-flying offensive attack to push it to a conference title.
The main point of concern coming into the season was the defense, as they lacked overall talent. However, they had a stellar game against this bottom dweller, recording 7 sacks, 2 INTs, and under 100 yards of total offense. Time will tell if the Owls will be able to carry over this defensive intensity to their other games, especially versus current #9 Texas in Austin week 4.
In other news, Chase Clement broke the single game passing TD record with 6; The previous record was 4.
| 2008 Schedule | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WK | Opponent | Rank | COV | Result |
| 1 | SMU | NR |  |
W 59-7 |
| 2 | @ Memphis | NR | ||
| 3 | @ Vanderbilt | NR | ||
| 4 | @ #10 Texas | NR | ||
| 5 | North Texas | NR | ||
| 6 | @ Tulsa | NR | ||
| 7 | ||||
| 8 | Southern Miss | NR | ||
| 9 | @ Tulane | NR | ||
| 10 | @ UTEP | NR | ||
| 11 | Army | NR | ||
| 12 | ||||
| 13 | Marshall | NR | ||
| 14 | Houston | NR | ||
| 15 | ||||
| 16 | ||||
| 17 | ||||
| Passing | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nameplayer_name | COMPcomp | ATTatt | YARDSyds | TDtd | INTints | ||||||||
| #16 QB | 20 | 26 | 351 | 6 | 2 | ||||||||
| Rushing | |||||||||||||
| Nameplayer_name | ATTatt | YDSyds | TDtd | LONGlong_run | FUMBfumb | ||||||||
| Receiving | |||||||||||||
| Nameplayer_name | RECrec | YDSyds | TDtd | LONGlong_rec | DROPSdrops | ||||||||
| Defensive | |||||||||||||
| Nameplayer_name | TKLStackles | SCKSsacks | INTints | FFff | Def TDdef_td | ||||||||
| Preseason Coaches Poll | |
|---|---|
| RNK | Team |
| No Preseason Coaches Poll has been set. | |
| Preseason Media Poll | |
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| RNK | Team |
| No Preseason Media Poll has been set. | |
| Final Coaches Poll | |
|---|---|
| RNK | Team |
| No Final Coaches Poll has been set. | |
| Final Media Poll | |
|---|---|
| RNK | Team |
| No Final Media Poll has been set. | |
| Final BCS Poll | |
|---|---|
| RNK | Team |
| No Final BCS Poll has been set. | |
| C-USA Conference Standings | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RNK | School | Record | Conf Record | PF | PA |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | |||