Rice athletics on Facebook just posted to keep an eye out for BIG NEWS on future home games. I'll update this when they post the news.

Did they say it was a schedule update? Could be announcing the new concessionaire.

(08-01-2016 09:19 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  Did they say it was a schedule update? Could be announcing the new concessionaire.

I assumed the "Rice vs ?" in the picture meant schedule update.

The Thresher tweet: https://twitter.com/ThresherSports/statu...4582843392

Aggies?
LSU?
Stanford?

Wash U?....just to go to the other extreme.

(08-01-2016 09:54 PM)Pan95 Wrote:  Aggies?
LSU?
Stanford?

Isn't Stanford already scheduled to come in next year or the year after?

That's not news. We play new opponents all the time - Charlotte, FIU, ODU, UTSA...

(08-01-2016 09:58 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  That's not news. We play new opponents all the time - Charlotte, FIU, ODU, UTSA...

LOL! I did say non-conference though. My guess is maybe someone like a Boise St?

(08-01-2016 10:37 PM)owl95 Wrote:  

(08-01-2016 09:58 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  That's not news. We play new opponents all the time - Charlotte, FIU, ODU, UTSA...

LOL! I did say non-conference though. My guess is maybe someone like a Boise St?

They are already on the schedule.

Be nice if it was Ga Tech finally. 0-2-1 against them and last time we played them was back in 1972.

9/30/1972 T 36-36 Atlanta, GA
9/30/1961 L 0-24 Atlanta, GA
9/24/1960 L 13-16 Houston, TX

in looking that up, I saw we actually are 1-0 all-time vs the Georgia Bulldogs.
I had looked before and thought we'd never played but found this listing:

10/17/1936 W 13-6 Athens, GA

on the road, no less! who knew?

Yeah, our non conference schedule for football is teed up through 2018, with one slot to fill in 2019 and two slots in 2020

UTPB?

(08-02-2016 01:34 AM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote:  UTPB?

The University of Texas - Houston?

Alabama is coming here so they can finally beat us (maybe? the beating us part would be a little more certain)? That's my guess.

It didn't say anything specific about opponents, so I'm going to go the concessionaire route. Given all caps on BIG, it's gotta be Bob's Big Boy. Will they put one of those roadside Bobs outside the stadium on gameday?



Or sticking with the BIG, it's probably a Big 10 opponent. Given Harbaugh's desire to go to recruiting areas, I'm going with Michigan.

(08-01-2016 09:55 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(08-01-2016 09:54 PM)Pan95 Wrote:  Aggies?
LSU?
Stanford?

Isn't Stanford already scheduled to come in next year or the year after?

Walt, mea culpea. You are right. I will switch out Stanford with Oklahoma. The only other schools I would guess would be Notre Dame or any of the Michigan/Michigan St/Ohio State triumvirate.

(08-01-2016 09:58 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  That's not news. We play new opponents all the time - Charlotte, FIU, ODU, UTSA...

The tweet said new non-conference opponent...

...so if you're right, this is fantastic news indeed!

I just hope that, if the tweet is about new opponents that these are truly home games, and not "home" games at Reliant.

(08-02-2016 01:34 AM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote:  UTPB?

Sweet. A home and home series...Would give me the shortest travel time for a Rice road game ever...15 minutes!