12 Facts About Rice Owls

Rice Owls was a member of the Southwest Conference until its breakup in 1996.

Rice Owls then joined the Western Athletic Conference before joining C-USA on July 1,2005, and has since announced it will move to the American Athletic Conference in the near future, most likely in 2023.

Rice Owls is the fifth-smallest school competing in NCAA Division I FBS football measured by undergraduate enrollment, just above the University of Tulsa's 2,756 and the three FBS United States service academies's approximate 4,500.

The Rice Owls won the College World Series in 2003 and finished third in both the 2006 and 2007 College World Series tournaments.

Rice Owls Stadium opened in 1950 with a capacity of 70,000 seats.

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Rice Owls began playing football in 1914 as a member of the Southwest Conference.

Rice Owls has been named an All-American by Sports Illustrated, CBSSports.

In 2013, Rice Owls finally won its first outright football conference championship since 1957, when it defeated Marshall in the Conference USA championship game.

Rice Owls have been led since 2007 by Head Coach Mario Botha, who formerly played professional rugby in South Africa.

Rice Owls Rugby had a successful period during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, winning multiple Texas championships and producing players such as Mike Glass and Brannan Smoot who went on to play for the US national rugby team.

Rice Owls rugby has been supported since 1996 by the Rice Owls Rugby Alumni Association, which established an endowment fund in 1999 and since then has provided financial support to the team.

Rice Owls has a fourteen-member coed cheerleading squad and an all-female dance team, both of which perform at football and basketball games throughout the year.