Rice Game Time?

[LakeHighlandsPony]

Where is the Southwest Charter??

[that's great raplh]

Or just teleport there. It's instant and better for the environment. Just be sure to visualize a clear space or you will teleport in to someting and die.

The multiverse is amazing

[Pony_Fan]

time for you wusses to man up and go to the away games

Bus, you arent a wuss

[smupony94]

Electricity in the air, out of Owls offense
Bears pull away with 20 unanswered points


The way the Rice Owls have been struggling to find offense this season, one of the biggest tackles of Saturday’s game came from an unlikely adversary: Mother Nature.

Before a 67-minute delay for lightning, the Owls, for one of the few times this season, discovered some offensive consistency.

The rest of the game was a washout.

After falling behind early, Baylor pulled away in the second quarter, scoring 20 unanswered points for a 30-13 victory over the Owls before 23,395 at Rice Stadium.

“We come back and it looks like we lost all focus and can’t do anything right,” Rice coach David Bailiff said. “That’s mental toughness, and that’s me. I’ve got to continue to grow these young men up and do a better job.”

At the time of the delay, the Owls trailed Baylor 7-3. When play resumed, Baylor’s Robert Griffin III hooked up with Kendall Wright for a 40-yard touchdown and Aaron Jones connected on field goals of 33 and 20 yards for a 20-3 lead.

The Owls managed one first down and 25 yards on three possessions after the delay.

Red-zone woes

Rice, which lost three of four games in its non-conference schedule, has scored only two touchdowns in the last eight quarters.

“Rice can’t beat Rice,” Bailiff said. “You can’t have that. It starts with me and has to filter down. It’s unacceptable. We have to eliminate those mistakes that are costing us points and costing us yardage.”

Chris Boswell accounted for the Owls’ scoring with field goals of 42 and 43 yards before Sam McGuffie scored on a 12-yard run with less than six minutes remaining.

“We have got to get touchdowns where we get the field goal,” Bailiff said. “We don’t have that margin of error to continue to kick field goals. ”

On the Owls’ first series after the delay, quarterback Nick Fanuzzi had a screen pass intercepted by Baylor cornerback Chance Casey near midfield. Four plays later, Griffin found Wright in single coverage against linebacker Justin Hill for a 14-3 lead. Griffin also had a 6-yard touchdown to Jerod Monk in the first quarter.

Things continued to unravel for the Owls.

Later in the second quarter, the Owls were called for an illegal kick when the snap hit a blocker in front of punter Kyle Martens, giving the Bears the ball at the Rice 16. The Rice defense held, and Baylor had to settle for a 33-yard field goal by Jones.

Griffin engineered one final scoring drive before halftime, hooking up with Lanear Sampson for a 47-yard completion to the Rice 3. Jones made a 20-yard field goal as time expired.

Griffin put the game away with a 46-yard touchdown pass — his second TD pass of 40 or more yards in the game — to Josh Gordon for a 27-6 third-quarter lead.

Griffin completed 20 of 28 attempts for 268 yards and three touchdowns. Kendall Wright had seven catches for 106 yards and a touchdown.

Pensive in the pocket

Fanuzzi made his second straight start at quarterback with Taylor McHargue still recovering from a mild shoulder separation. Fanuzzi was 27-of-38 for 204 yards with two interceptions and three sacks. With the Owls faced with third down at the Baylor 25 late in the third quarter, Fanuzzi kept the ball and was sacked for a 16-yard loss to push the Owls out of field-goal range.

“We still need to work with Nick on his decision making,” Bailiff said.

Bailiff said he would watch game film before deciding on his quarterback plans for Saturday’s Conference USA opener against SMU.

“We can’t continue to make the same mistakes,” defensive end Cheta Ozougwu said.

[Stallion]

27 receptions for 204 yards-looks like everything must be underneath because that is paltry-7.5 yards per catch

[mrydel]

They ran the same "deep snap into the blocker" play that we ran but we did it to perfection and they turned it over.

[smupony94]

They ran the same "deep snap into the blocker" play that we ran but we did it to perfection and they turned it over.

I heard we rehearsed that for weeks

[Pony Up Class of 85]

Looks like the game is on FLOTV. Not exactly HD but better than nothing.

[Junior]

what is that?

[ALEX LIFESON]

[quote="Pony_Fan"]time for you wusses to man up and go to the away games

Right,time to act like fans. PONY UP!

[Dutch]

time for you wusses to man up and go to the away games

Right,time to act like fans. PONY UP!

some of us have young children, busy schedules, and businesses to run that get busier on the weekends. I'll be here providing a place for other ponyfans in similar situations to get together and watch the game. I hope that the fans that can't make it, stop by to watch the game with other fans who can't make it.