This is one reason why the venerable Rice/UH rivalry is a bunch of hokum. When I looked at my football feed this morning I counted 30 topics before I saw the name, “Rice.”
I know we like the convenience. I know we like the easy tailgating. The cost is low. But it’s not a rivalry in the visceral sense. It’s just two schools in the same city. I wouldn’t care if we never plsyed them again. They’ve always been a high risk/low reward opponent. But not a rivalry.
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How much did we break down the UNLV team?
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I hate Rice because I know the history going all the way back to our 1st scrimmage.
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Incidentally I was looking at winsipedia yesterday and noticed we are tied all time with Baylor and tcu, and 18-16 all time against ttu. If this conference exists for very long rivalries will develop. Fights always seem to break out when we play ttu, but that’s just their fanbase I think.
… seeing now that we are also tied all time with Oklahoma State.
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I’m not sure but I haven’t heard them referred as our rival for decades.
Do we know what uniforms the team will wear?
What school excites you viscerally that wouldn’t make us an 0-3 team after this weekend? At this point, winnable OOC game sounds great.
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We even lost the title of the closest FBS schools to Georgia Tech and Georgia State.
TSU does not count because they are an FCS school.
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When I was a student at UH, some of the profs definitely cared about the Rice game. These weren’t the type that you think would care about sports. I think there’s a school rivalry there, even if it isn’t primarily an athletic rivalry.
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So we could reclaim the title of two closest “D1” schools if TSU moves up. Nice!
Back before we lost that distinction to Ga. State & Ga. Tech, I liked sharing this Google map with the 2.48 mile “as the crow flies” distance from Scott & Wheeler to Sunset & Main
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More trivia — Whenever there’s money-saving talk of merging TSU & UH, someone points out the state reg. that says the older school retains its name. So we would become TSU !!
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Rice is the same as my ex-wives.
- Don’t like em.
- Don’t care about em.
- Wouldn’t hurt my feelings if I never saw em again.
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As with most rivalries, the lesser school wants the game. We are usually superior 9/10 in football and basketball, they were good for a while in baseball, their academics are superior, but they are nerds. (I grew up in W.U.) Fun to beat them and bring the Bayou Bucket home where it belongs.
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I don’t consider them a rival. Kinda like UNT considers SMU a rival but the feeling isn’t mutual. However, UNT brings lots of fans to Ford Stadium. Rice has few fans.
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Bayou Bucket hype video and uni reveal in one
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I hate Rice because the last time we lost to them back to back I was a student at UH. And I attended both games. Embarrassing. Beat the nerds up Main!
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That’s my point. Rivalries aren’t about protecting your record. They’re about hatred. But maybe you knew that already? We can play Rice from now til Doomsday but I won’t consider them a rival. Rivals are teams you want to lose every week. I don’t care enough about Rice that way.
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I hate Memphis more than I hate Rice
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I know we have a lot of transfers but I hope our players come out fired up because of last year.