The Rice Owls are Conference USA Football Champions!

With their win in the Conference USA Football Championship, Rice Football has accepted an invitation to play in the 55th AutoZone Liberty Bowl. We hope that you and your family can join us and other Rice Owl fans for what should be an exciting bowl experience in Memphis. Listed below is the information you will need to make your bowl game plans.

AutoZone Liberty Bowl

55th AutoZone Liberty Bowl
December 31, 2013
Kickoff: 3:00 p.m. (CST)
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium
Memphis, Tennessee

Tickets

On Sale Now!

https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/rice/EN...s/FB13LIBE

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! - IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO PURCHASE ALL BOWL TICKETS THROUGH THE RICE ATHLETIC TICKET OFFICE

In addition to guaranteeing your seat will be in the Rice fan block with other Owl fans, purchasing tickets through the Rice Athletic Ticket Office helps to ensure that Rice can meet all of the necessary financial obligations to the bowl game and positions Rice for future bowl game selections. If you cannot attend the game, please consider purchasing tickets that will be donated to deserving youth in the Memphis area. If you wish to purchase tickets for donation, please check the donation box on the order form. This donation will be tax deductible and will benefit the Rice Football program. With your help we can make this bowl experience a success on and off the field!

All tickets for the AutoZone Liberty Bowl are $55. Seat location for the Liberty Bowl will be based on the following priority system:

1) 2013 Owl Club Donors

2) Rice Football Season Ticket Holders

3) Rice Faculty/Staff/Students

4) General Public

Official Bowl Packages

Special AutoZone Liberty Bowl packages which include game tickets, official bowl apparel, coaches' sideline gear, access to bowl events and more are available for purchase. The proceeds from these packages directly benefit Rice Football. For more information Click Here or call Marc Laney in the Owl Club at 713-348-5086.

Hotel Accommodations

Rice Team Headquarters
Hilton Memphis Hotel
939 Ridge Lake Blvd.
Memphis, TN 38120
(901) 684-6664

The Liberty Bowl has set up special rates at several hotels in Memphis. For more information about these rates and to book your hotel please Click Here.

UPDATED -- Official Rice University Events

(Also updated in the original post)

Liberty Bowl Kickoff Party
Hosted by the Owl Club and the Association of Rice Alumni

Join your fellow Rice fans on Beale Street the night before the game! Drinks and food will be served.

Monday, December 30, 2013
6:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Admission: $25
Hard Rock Café - Memphis
315 Beale St.

Purchase Tickets Here

Pre-Game Indoor Buffet and Tailgate
Official Rice pre-game event for fans, alumni and friends

This tailgate, located indoors and adjoining to the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, offers an open bar, Memphis BBQ and entertainment from our very own Marching Owl Band! Rice alumni, fans and friends are welcome to enjoy the buffet and then take part in the Rice Team Walk which will take place in front of the Creative Arts Building. This event will likely sell out, so it is important to register in advance.

Tuesday, December 31, 2013
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Admission: $35
Creative Arts Building

Purchase Tickets Here

** Event Tickets purchased by December 20 will be mailed. After December 20 they will be available for pickup at the team hotel in Memphis (times TBD) as well as at the check-in table for both events.

AutoZone Liberty Bowl Events

Team Welcome Party
Friday, December 27 at 6:00pm
AutoZone Park
Tickets: $25

Beale Street Parade
Monday, December 30 at 3pm
World Famous Beale Street
Admission: Free

The Bash on Beale
Monday, December 30 at 5pm
Handy Park on Beale Street
Admission: Free

President's Gala
Monday, December 30 at 7pm
The Peabody Hotel
Tickets: $175

Pre-Game Buffet
Tuesday, December 31 at 11:30am
Pipkin & Creative Arts Building
Tickets: $35
More information about these events is available here

Join the Owl Club

It's always 'the most wonderful time of the year' to support your Rice Owl Scholar-Athletes!

Make a gift to the Owl Club today for your end-of-year tax benefits and increase your seating priority for the bowl game. Additionally you will receive invitation to special Owl Club bowl events! Your benefits will count for the bowl game as well as the 2014 calendar year.

Ground Transportation to Game

MATA will provide express service to the Liberty Bowl game between Mississippi State and Rice taking place on Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 at 3:00pm.



PICK-UP LOCATIONS AND DEPARTURE TIMES:

LOCATION DEPARTURE TIME
East
Germantown Village Square - On Poplar 1:30 pm

Downtown
Sheraton Hotel 1:30 pm
Peabody Hotel 1:30 pm

Northeast
Bartlett - Wolfchase 1:30 pm

EXPRESS SERVICE FARE:
$8.00 round-trip
$4.00 one-way trip

http://www.matatransit.com/ridersguide/e...erty-bowl/

More Information

To receive the latest AutoZone Liberty Bowl information, please refer to the following on-line information sources:

Rice Owls Bowl Game Central will go live by Monday, December 9, 2013.

http://www.riceowls.com/gameday/bowl-central.html

55th AutoZone Liberty Bowl:

http://www.libertybowl.org/

Rice Athletic Ticket Office: (713) 522-6957
Owl Club: (713) 348-6957
riceowls.com

Perhaps a mod could sticky this since related questions have come up in other threads.

Anyone know why the tix sold through the link say they are for Sections 110 through 128, when we are supposed to be sitting on the West Side, which would be more like sections 101 to 110 and also 130 to 132?

(12-08-2013 09:46 PM)Baseball Owl Wrote:  Anyone know why the tix sold through the link say they are for Sections 110 through 128, when we are supposed to be sitting on the West Side, which would be more like sections 101 to 110 and also 130 to 132?

I think it's reading "128-110" as left to right on the seating map.

That makes sense perfect sense. Sections 128-132 and 101-110. But it doesn't really matter anyway if you buy from Rice. You don't choose your own section, rather Rice does it for you according to donor level.

(12-08-2013 10:34 PM)texd Wrote:  That makes sense perfect sense. Sections 128-132 and 101-110. But it doesn't really matter anyway if you buy from Rice. You don't choose your own section, rather Rice does it for you according to donor level.

so... anyone know exactly where I am if I'm in Section GA1, Row GA3? Is that general admission? if so, then how are there assigned seats?

(12-09-2013 01:45 AM)NYNightOwl Wrote:  

(12-08-2013 10:34 PM)texd Wrote:  That makes sense perfect sense. Sections 128-132 and 101-110. But it doesn't really matter anyway if you buy from Rice. You don't choose your own section, rather Rice does it for you according to donor level.

so... anyone know exactly where I am if I'm in Section GA1, Row GA3? Is that general admission? if so, then how are there assigned seats?

That is just a temporary place holder until seats are assigned.

Same system as last year in Ft Worth.

President's Gala event in Memphis... Anyone know if this is a Rice/Leebron event? I'm assuming yes? Or is this a president of something else?

(12-09-2013 05:38 PM)NYNightOwl Wrote:  President's Gala event in Memphis... Anyone know if this is a Rice/Leebron event? I'm assuming yes? Or is this a president of something else?

I don't think so. This looks like a Liberty Bowl event. It likely refers to the president of the bowl game executive board.

http://www.libertybowl.org/events/presidents-gala

Get e-mail updates here: https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/bowl-bound

Baylor is doing a student package to the Fiesta Bowl. For $150 they get bus trip, bowl ticket, one nights lodging, and pregame event. I think an alum subsidized it. The have already booked 1000 and opened up more this morning. One ticket per student, must have student ID. Seems like something Rice should do, if they aren't already.

(12-12-2013 12:15 PM)Converted Rice Wrote:  Baylor is doing a student package to the Fiesta Bowl. For $150 they get bus trip, bowl ticket, one nights lodging, and pregame event. I think an alum subsidized it. The have already booked 1000 and opened up more this morning. One ticket per student, must have student ID. Seems like something Rice should do, if they aren't already.

Agreed, although the issue is that this will only target people that are already in driving distance from Rice. Everyone that flew home for the winter break is going to have to book a ticket from their home to Memphis and back, which is probably going to preclude a lot of people from attending, if they don't have cash saved up from a summer/on-campus job/other source. This is a great idea however, and we should definitely attempt to emulate this on a small scale.

Good point. I hadn't considered that fact that Baylor is much more Texas-centric than Rice.

UPDATED Rice University Official Events:

(Also updated in the original post)

Liberty Bowl Kickoff Party
Hosted by the Owl Club and the Association of Rice Alumni

Join your fellow Rice fans on Beale Street the night before the game! Drinks and food will be served.

Monday, December 30, 2013
6:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Admission: $25
Hard Rock Café - Memphis
315 Beale St.

Purchase Tickets Here

Pre-Game Indoor Buffet and Tailgate
Official Rice pre-game event for fans, alumni and friends

This tailgate, located indoors and adjoining to the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, offers an open bar, Memphis BBQ and entertainment from our very own Marching Owl Band! Rice alumni, fans and friends are welcome to enjoy the buffet and then take part in the Rice Team Walk which will take place in front of the Creative Arts Building. This event will likely sell out, so it is important to register in advance.

Tuesday, December 31, 2013
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Admission: $35
Creative Arts Building

Purchase Tickets Here

** Event Tickets purchased by December 20 will be mailed. After December 20 they will be available for pickup at the team hotel in Memphis (times TBD) as well as at the check-in table for both events.

MATA will provide express service to the Liberty Bowl game between Mississippi State and Rice taking place on Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 at 3:00pm.



PICK-UP LOCATIONS AND DEPARTURE TIMES:


LOCATION DEPARTURE TIME
East
Germantown Village Square - On Poplar 1:30 pm
Downtown
Sheraton Hotel 1:30 pm
Downtown
Peabody Hotel 1:30 pm
Northeast
Bartlett - Wolfchase 1:30 pm



EXPRESS SERVICE FARE:
$8.00 round-trip
$4.00 one-way trip

http://www.matatransit.com/ridersguide/e...erty-bowl/

(12-12-2013 12:45 PM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote:  Everyone that flew home for the winter break is going to have to book a ticket from their home to Memphis and back...

They're college students, and it's winter break. They can road trip! Isn't that what college students do?

(12-17-2013 09:46 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(12-12-2013 12:45 PM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote:  Everyone that flew home for the winter break is going to have to book a ticket from their home to Memphis and back...

They're college students, and it's winter break. They can road trip! Isn't that what college students do?

Exactly. We drove to New York and back in 5 days over winter break just to see Letterman (it was actually going to be a dual-purpose trip but one of our purposes was cancelled). And only one night was spent indoors (on the floor at a friend's house in Erie PA)... the other three were spent either driving all night or outside on Broadway in line for space-available tickets.

There is no excuse for anyone not to make the game. NONE. The drive to Memphis can be done in a day but two days is probably ideal. Memphis is also a fun place to visit. History is being made and all should go experience it. Hell, I did not even go to Rice. I graduated from UT but always admired Rice about their high academic standards. If I can go, every Rice student and alumni should go. The only beef I have is why didnt the athletic dept or some group at Rice start organizing buses to go to Memphis from Houston immediately after it was announced Rice was going to the Liberty bowl. I hope the new AD has noticed this one flaw.


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Exactly. We drove to New York and back in 5 days over winter break just to see Letterman (it was actually going to be a dual-purpose trip but one of our purposes was cancelled). And only one night was spent indoors (on the floor at a friend's house in Erie PA)... the other three were spent either driving all night or outside on Broadway in line for space-available tickets.
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Here's an interactive seat chart so you can determine about where you'll be sitting.

http://seatgeek.com/venues/liberty-bowl-...ing-chart/

Click the "interactive" link and use the + sign ( upper left corner ) to zoom in for your row.