2015 Rice Owls football team


The 2015 Rice Owls football team represented Rice University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season as members of the West Division of Conference USA. They were led by ninth year head coach David Bailiff and played their home games at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas. They finished the season 5–7, 3–5 in C-USA play to finish in a three way tie for third place in the West Division.

Schedule

Rice announced their 2015 football schedule on February 2, 2015. The 2015 schedule consisted of six home and away games in the regular season. The Owls hosted CUSA foes Charlotte, Louisiana Tech, Southern Miss, and Western Kentucky, and traveled to Florida Atlantic, North Texas, UTEP, and UTSA.

Game summaries

Wagner

at Texas

Overall recordLast meetingResult
21–71–12011TEX, 34–9

at North Texas

Overall recordLast meetingResult
3–22014RICE, 41–21

at Baylor

Overall recordLast meetingResult
30–47–22011BAYLOR, 56–31

WKU

at Florida Atlantic

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–02013RICE, 18–14

Army

Overall recordLast meetingResult
3–1–12014RICE, 41–21

Louisiana Tech

Overall recordLast meetingResult
4–42014LT, 76–31

at UTEP

Overall recordLast meetingResult
12–62014RICE, 31–7

Southern Miss

Overall recordLast meetingResult
4–12014RICE, 41–23

at UTSA

Overall recordLast meetingResult
3–02014RICE, 17–7

Charlotte