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RICE

Passing yards 217.8 yards/game (62nd Overall)**
Rushing yards: 93.0 yards/game (107th Overall)
Points for: 18.8/game (103rd Overall)
Points against: 31.3/game (96th overall)
Pass Defense 105 Overall
Rush Defense 89 Overall

v. UT L 34-17
@ UNT W 32-21
v. NW L 30-13
v. Baylor L 30-13

Passing
Fanuzzi: 62 of 98 for 627 yards 1TD 4 INT
McHarque: 9 of 21 for 146 yards 2 TD 1 Int
Cook: 13 of 22 for 98 yards 0 TD 1 INT

Top Rushers
SMith: 36 carries for 168 (lg 48) 0 TD
McGuffie: 48 Carries for 159 (lg 14) 1 TD
Ross: 10 Carries for 47 yards (lg 31) 2 TD

Top Receivers
MCGuffie: 19 for 164 (lg 51) 1 TD
WIlson 14 for 147 (lg 27) 1 TD
Randolph 7 for 95 (lg 31) 0 TD
Moore 7 for 84 (lg of32) 0 TD
Kitchens 4 for 68 (lg of 47) 1 TD

Kicker
Non available?

SMU
Passing yards 210.3 yards/game (70th Overall)
Rushing yards: 172 yards/game (46th Overall)**
Points for: 28.5/game (57th Overall)**
Points against: 26.0 (76th overall)**
Pass Defense 84 Overall**
Rush Defense 36 Overall**

@ TT L 35-27
v. UAB W 28-7
v. Wash State W 35-21
v. TCU(4) L 41-24

Passing
Padron 72 of 140 for 812 yards, 10 TDs 4 INTs

Top Rushers
Line 53 for 415 yards (lg 36) 4 TDs
Padron 34 for 135 yards (lg 24) 1 TD
Butler 18 for 106 yards (lg 19) 0 TDs

Top Receivers
Robinson 16 for 273 yards (LG 67) 4 TDs
DJ 20 for 202 yards (LG 50) 3 TDs
Beasley 15 for 182 yards (LG 29) 2 TDs
Haynes 7 for 78 yards (LG 25) 1 TD
Line 8 for 74 yards (LG 19) 0 TDS

Kicker
Szymanski XP 15/15, FG 3/3, 2/2 from 20-29, 1-1 from 60+


** denote our better rankings
individual stats courtesy of espn.com
team statistics courtesy of http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/statsTeam

players to be worried about (i preface this by saying i have not checked any updated injury reports:

WR:
Smiter 6-2 200
Clark 6-2 185
Beasley 6-3 215

RB
Mcguffie

I can't get over how anemic our passing game has been so far. Of course part of that is due to a successful running game. Still, Rice has a better passing game then our fab run and shoot?

ponyte wrote:I can't get over how anemic our passing game has been so far. Of course part of that is due to a successful running game. Still, Rice has a better passing game then our fab run and shoot?

definately agree. these stats really jump out...

Passing yards 210.3 yards/game (70th Overall)
Pass Defense 84 Overall**

I noticed in the replay of he TCU game, we had receivers open. Padron just wasn't seeing/throwing to them. It's been commented before, he seems to be "locking on" to one receiver.

Please lord let this be the day that KP and the WRs snap out of their funk, and we chuck it around for 300+ yards.

They are slow. They suck. And they're Rice. They're not very good.

Their DBs were absolutely torched on Robert Griffin deep balls last week. They cannot move very well. All we have to do is hit about 1-2 deep balls on them. Aldrick and Darius can get behind them and take off. They won't get caught. And I'm pretty sure if Line can rip off 140 yards against TCU, there's a chance he can do that against Rice.

They are a bad team. They have a couple of nice players including McGuffie but...

We will beat them by something like 30-17.

We'll probably have an emotional hangover from TCU to start the game and give up some dingdong score to start. But once the game settles in, we should be fine.

I've watched them twice and said, "OK, they got nothin.''

And I would tend to suspect they got some of these yards when they were way behind. They got a garbage TD against Texas, I believe. They got a garbage TD against Baylor in the fourth quarter.

I think you guys overrate them way too much and don't give our guys enough credit.

If we lose, it would be because the kids beat themselves and not what Rice does.

And this never winning down there since the death penalty is a loser mentality. That was the old program. This is a new era. And I was made a believer after what happened in Lubbock. We bucked history history. We'll buck history in Houston.

Rice sucks and so does its stupid band!

all 3 Rice RBs are pretty decent. I like the Ross kid listed 3rd who ran for about 500 as a freshman and is a pretty big kid who can run. SMU and a bunch of others offered. He made CUSA All Freshman team but he doesn't seem to be getting the carries. I've heard that Fanuzzi may be replaced by the opening day stater Taylor McHargue who suffered a shoulder injury.

I was impressed with how Rice played vs. Texas but after that UCLA thing...

ponyte wrote:I can't get over how anemic our passing game has been so far. Of course part of that is due to a successful running game. Still, Rice has a better passing game then our fab run and shoot?

they haven't really faced any defenses other than Texas.

Junior wrote:

ponyte wrote:I can't get over how anemic our passing game has been so far. Of course part of that is due to a successful running game. Still, Rice has a better passing game then our fab run and shoot?

they haven't really faced any defenses other than Texas.

The worst D they faced was #77 and Baylor was #55 so I would not say they haven't faced any D.