American college football season
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]
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 .
Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance August 26 9:00 p.m. vs. No. 14 Stanford * ESPN L 7–6233,101 September 9 7:00 p.m. at UTEP CUSA.TV W 31–1419,136 September 16 7:00 p.m. at Houston * ESPN3 L 3–3838,900 September 23 6:30 p.m. FIU Stadium L 7–1318,932 September 30 11:00 a.m. at Pittsburgh * ACCRSN L 10–4233,051 October 7 5:30 p.m. Army * beIN L 12–4921,766 October 21 6:00 p.m. at UTSA STADIUM L 7–2025,270 October 28 2:30 p.m. Louisiana Tech FloFootball L 28–4219,992 November 4 2:00 p.m. at UAB L 21–5221,224 November 11 2:30 p.m. Southern Miss STADIUM L 34–4318,124 November 18 1:00 p.m. at Old Dominion ESPN3 L 21–2420,118 November 25 12:00 p.m. North Texas ESPN3 L 14–3017,956 *Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game All times are in Central time
Schedule Source: [ 3]
1
2
3
4
Total
Owls
0
0
0
7
7
No. 14 Cardinal
21
17
14
10
62
1
2
3
4
Total
Owls
3
7
7
14
31
Miners
7
0
0
7
14
1
2
3
4
Total
Owls
0
0
0
3
3
Cougars
17
21
0
0
38
1
2
3
4
Total
Panthers
0
10
3
0
13
Owls
0
7
0
0
7
1
2
3
4
Total
Owls
0
0
10
0
10
Panthers
21
7
0
14
42
1
2
3
4
Total
Black Knights
21
14
7
7
49
Owls
0
0
6
6
12
1
2
3
4
Total
Owls
0
7
0
0
7
Roadrunners
10
0
10
0
20
1
2
3
4
Total
Bulldogs
7
14
7
14
42
Owls
0
7
7
14
28
1
2
3
4
Total
Owls
0
7
0
14
21
Blazers
21
21
7
3
52
1
2
3
4
Total
Golden Eagles
10
12
14
7
43
Owls
0
14
13
7
34
1
2
3
4
Total
Owls
7
0
0
14
21
Monarchs
7
3
7
7
24
1
2
3
4
Total
Mean Green
7
17
3
3
30
Owls
7
7
0
0
14
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