2020 Rice Owls football team


The 2020 Rice Owls football team will represent Rice University in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Owls will play their home games at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas, and will compete in the West Division of Conference USA. They will be led by third-year head coach Mike Bloomgren.

Previous season

The Owls finished the 2019 season 3–9, 3–5 in C-USA play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place in the West Division. They were not invited to any other postseason play. Despite the losing record, the Owls retained Bloomgren, however, they did hired a new Offensive Line and Tight Ends coach.

Preseason

Award watch lists

Listed in the order that they were released
Chuck Bednarik AwardBlaze AlldredgeLBSR
Fred Biletnikoff AwardBradley RoznerWRRS JR
Butkus AwardBlaze AlldredgeLBSR
Bronko Nagurski TrophyBlaze AlldredgeLBSR
Paul Hornung AwardAustin TrammellWRSR

C-USA media poll

The preseason poll will be released prior to the Conference USA media days sometime during summer 2020 via a virtual conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Preseason All–C-USA teams

The Preseason team will be released during the Virtual Media Day to be held in the summer of 2020.

Recruiting class

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Personnel

Schedule

The 2020 schedule consists of 7 home and 5 away games in the regular season. The Owls will travel to C-USA foes Marshall, Southern Miss, Louisiana Tech and North Texas. The Owls will play host to C-USA foes UAB, Middle Tennessee, UTSA, and UTEP.
The Owls will host three of the four non-conference opponents at Rice Stadium, Army, a FBS Independent, Lamar of the Southland. They will travel to Houston, a member of The American for their lone non-conference away match.
Rice had a game scheduled against LSU, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Game summaries

at Houston

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at Marshall

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Middle Tennessee

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at Southern Miss

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at Louisiana Tech

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at North Texas

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