2017 Rice Owls football team

2017 Conference USA football standings
v t e
Team	W		L	W		L
East Division
Florida Atlantic x$	8	–	0	11	–	3
FIU	5	–	3	8	–	5
Marshall	4	–	4	8	–	5
Western Kentucky	4	–	4	6	–	7
Middle Tennessee	4	–	4	7	–	6
Old Dominion	3	–	5	5	–	7
Charlotte	1	–	7	1	–	11
West Division
North Texas x	7	–	1	9	–	5
UAB	6	–	2	8	–	5
Southern Miss	6	–	2	8	–	5
Louisiana Tech	4	–	4	7	–	6
UTSA	3	–	5	6	–	5
Rice	1	–	7	1	–	11
UTEP	0	–	8	0	–	12

Championship: Florida Atlantic 41, North Texas 17
$ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

The 2017 Rice Owls football team represented Rice University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Owls played their home games at the Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas, and competed in the West Division of Conference USA (C–USA). They were led by eleventh-year head coach David Bailiff. They finished the season 1–11, 1–7 in C-USA play to finish in sixth place in the West Division.

On November 27, head coach David Bailiff was fired.^[1] He finished at Rice with an 11-year record of 57–80.

Schedule

Rice announced its 2017 football schedule on January 26, 2017. The 2017 schedule consisted of 5 home, 6 away and 1 neutral site game in the regular season. The Owls hosted CUSA foes FIU, Louisiana Tech, North Texas, and Southern Miss, and traveled to Old Dominion, UAB, UTEP, and UTSA^[2]

The Owls hosted one of the four non-conference opponents, Army, who was independent from a conference, and traveled to Houston from the American Athletic Conference and Pittsburgh from the Atlantic Coast Conference. Rice traveled to Sydney, Australia to face Stanford from the Pac-12 Conference.

August 269:00 p.m.vs. No. 14 Stanford*

Allianz Stadium
Sydney, Australia (Sydney Cup)

ESPNL 7–6233,101 September 97:00 p.m.at UTEP

CUSA.TVW 31–1419,136 September 167:00 p.m.at Houston*

ESPN3L 3–3838,900 September 236:30 p.m.FIU

Rice Stadium
Houston, TX

STADIUML 7–1318,932 September 3011:00 a.m.at Pittsburgh*

ACCRSNL 10–4233,051 October 75:30 p.m.Army*

Rice Stadium
Houston, TX

beINL 12–4921,766 October 216:00 p.m.at UTSA

STADIUML 7–2025,270 October 282:30 p.m.Louisiana Tech

Rice Stadium
Houston, TX

FloFootballL 28–4219,992 November 42:00 p.m.at UAB

L 21–5221,224 November 112:30 p.m.Southern Miss

Rice Stadium
Houston, TX

STADIUML 34–4318,124 November 181:00 p.m.at Old Dominion

ESPN3L 21–2420,118 November 2512:00 p.m.North Texas

Rice Stadium
Houston, TX

ESPN3L 14–3017,956

Template:CFB Schedule End

Schedule Source:^[3]

Game summaries

vs Stanford

	1	2	3	4	Total
Owls	0	0	0	7	7
No. 14 Cardinal	21	17	14	10	62

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
3–2	2016	L, 17–41

at UTEP

	1	2	3	4	Total
Owls	3	7	7	14	31
Miners	7	0	0	7	14

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
13–7	2016	W, 44–24

at Houston

	1	2	3	4	Total
Owls	0	0	0	3	3
Cougars	17	21	0	0	38

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
11–29	2013	L, 26–31

FIU

	1	2	3	4	Total
Panthers	0	10	3	0	13
Owls	0	7	0	0	7

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
1–0	2014	W, 31–17

at Pittsburgh

	1	2	3	4	Total
Owls	0	0	10	0	10
Panthers	21	7	0	14	42

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
2–0	1951	W, 21–13

Army

	1	2	3	4	Total
Black Knights	21	14	7	7	49
Owls	0	0	6	6	12

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
4–2–1	2016	L, 14–31

at UTSA

	1	2	3	4	Total
Owls	0	7	0	0	7
Roadrunners	10	0	10	0	20

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
3–2	2016	L, 13–14

Louisiana Tech

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	7	14	7	14	42
Owls	0	7	7	14	28

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
4–6	2016	L, 16–61

at UAB

	1	2	3	4	Total
Owls	0	7	0	14	21
Blazers	21	21	7	3	52

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
3–2	2013	W, 37–34

Southern Miss

	1	2	3	4	Total
Golden Eagles	10	12	14	7	43
Owls	0	14	13	7	34

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
4–3	2016	L, 28–44

at Old Dominion

	1	2	3	4	Total
Owls	7	0	0	14	21
Monarchs	7	3	7	7	24

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
0–1	2014	L, 42–45

North Texas

	1	2	3	4	Total
Mean Green	7	17	3	3	30
Owls	7	7	0	0	14

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
4–3	2016	L, 35–42

References

^ Hill, Glynn A. (November 27, 2017). "Rice fires football coach David Bailiff". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
^ "C-USA Announces 2017 Football Schedules" (Press release). Rice University Department of Athletics. January 26, 2017. Retrieved February 5, 2017.
^ "2017 Rice Owls Football Schedule". FB Schedules. Retrieved February 5, 2017.

[1] Hill, Glynn A. (November 27, 2017). "Rice fires football coach David Bailiff". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved January 9, 2018.

[RU17-2] "C-USA Announces 2017 Football Schedules" (Press release). Rice University Department of Athletics. January 26, 2017. Retrieved February 5, 2017.

[3] "2017 Rice Owls Football Schedule". FB Schedules. Retrieved February 5, 2017.

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