Rivalry leaderboard
Rice-Texas Greatest Games
The series' top 25 meetings, ranked without team allegiance by game-time AP strength, final-score closeness, and overtime.
- Games
- 25
- Top score
- 56/100
- Overtime
- 0
Series context
- Completed meetings
- 97
- Series record
- Rice 21-75-1 Texas
- Tracked years
- 1914-2023
- Trophy
- No named trophy
Series ranking
The rivalry's top 25 games
22 of these games include at least one AP-ranked team at kickoff. Open a supported game for its box score and statistics.
- 1963Week 7
Rice at Texas
Rice 6, Texas 10
Winner: Texas
Unranked Rice vs. No. 1 Texas · 4-point margin
Ranking 25/50 · Closeness 31/35 · Overtime 0/15
56
Game score
- 1962Week 7
Rice at Texas
Rice 14, Texas 14
Result: Tie
Unranked Rice vs. No. 5 Texas · 0-point margin
Ranking 21/50 · Closeness 35/35 · Overtime 0/15
56
Game score
- 1946Week 7
Texas at Rice
Texas 13, Rice 18
Winner: Rice
No. 17 Texas vs. No. 12 Rice · 5-point margin
Ranking 23/50 · Closeness 30/35 · Overtime 0/15
53
Game score
- 1949Week 7
Rice at Texas
Rice 17, Texas 15
Winner: Rice
No. 6 Rice vs. Unranked Texas · 2-point margin
Ranking 20/50 · Closeness 33/35 · Overtime 0/15
53
Game score
- 1964Week 7
Texas at Rice
Texas 6, Rice 3
Winner: Texas
No. 6 Texas vs. Unranked Rice · 3-point margin
Ranking 20/50 · Closeness 32/35 · Overtime 0/15
52
Game score
- 1945Week 8
Rice at Texas
Rice 7, Texas 6
Winner: Rice
Unranked Rice vs. No. 10 Texas · 1-point margin
Ranking 16/50 · Closeness 34/35 · Overtime 0/15
50
Game score
- 1965Week 7
Rice at Texas
Rice 20, Texas 17
Winner: Rice
Unranked Rice vs. No. 9 Texas · 3-point margin
Ranking 17/50 · Closeness 32/35 · Overtime 0/15
49
Game score
- 1947Week 7
Rice at Texas
Rice 0, Texas 12
Winner: Texas
No. 20 Rice vs. No. 7 Texas · 12-point margin
Ranking 25/50 · Closeness 23/35 · Overtime 0/15
48
Game score
- 1994Week 8
Texas at Rice
Texas 17, Rice 19
Winner: Rice
No. 12 Texas vs. Unranked Rice · 2-point margin
Ranking 14/50 · Closeness 33/35 · Overtime 0/15
47
Game score
- 1980Week 6
Texas at Rice
Texas 41, Rice 28
Winner: Texas
No. 3 Texas vs. Unranked Rice · 13-point margin
Ranking 23/50 · Closeness 22/35 · Overtime 0/15
45
Game score
- 1953Week 6
Rice at Texas
Rice 18, Texas 13
Winner: Rice
No. 12 Rice vs. Unranked Texas · 5-point margin
Ranking 14/50 · Closeness 30/35 · Overtime 0/15
44
Game score
- 1951Week 7
Rice at Texas
Rice 6, Texas 14
Winner: Texas
Unranked Rice vs. No. 10 Texas · 8-point margin
Ranking 16/50 · Closeness 27/35 · Overtime 0/15
43
Game score
- 1957Week 7
Rice at Texas
Rice 14, Texas 19
Winner: Texas
Unranked Rice vs. No. 13 Texas · 5-point margin
Ranking 13/50 · Closeness 30/35 · Overtime 0/15
43
Game score
- 1960Week 7
Texas at Rice
Texas 0, Rice 7
Winner: Rice
Unranked Texas vs. No. 13 Rice · 7-point margin
Ranking 13/50 · Closeness 28/35 · Overtime 0/15
41
Game score
- 1979Week 6
Rice at Texas
Rice 9, Texas 26
Winner: Texas
Unranked Rice vs. No. 4 Texas · 17-point margin
Ranking 22/50 · Closeness 18/35 · Overtime 0/15
40
Game score
- 1942Week 7
Texas at Rice
Texas 12, Rice 7
Winner: Texas
No. 18 Texas vs. Unranked Rice · 5-point margin
Ranking 8/50 · Closeness 30/35 · Overtime 0/15
38
Game score
- 1970Week 9
Texas at Rice
Texas 45, Rice 21
Winner: Texas
No. 1 Texas vs. Unranked Rice · 24-point margin
Ranking 25/50 · Closeness 11/35 · Overtime 0/15
36
Game score
- 1984Week 7
Texas at Rice
Texas 38, Rice 13
Winner: Texas
No. 1 Texas vs. Unranked Rice · 25-point margin
Ranking 25/50 · Closeness 10/35 · Overtime 0/15
35
Game score
- 1959Week 7
Rice at Texas
Rice 6, Texas 28
Winner: Texas
Unranked Rice vs. No. 4 Texas · 22-point margin
Ranking 22/50 · Closeness 13/35 · Overtime 0/15
35
Game score
- 1952Week 7
Texas at Rice
Texas 20, Rice 7
Winner: Texas
No. 13 Texas vs. Unranked Rice · 13-point margin
Ranking 13/50 · Closeness 22/35 · Overtime 0/15
35
Game score
- 2004Week 5
Rice at Texas
Rice 13, Texas 35
Winner: Texas
Unranked Rice vs. No. 5 Texas · 22-point margin
Ranking 21/50 · Closeness 13/35 · Overtime 0/15
34
Game score
- 1989Week 6
Rice at Texas
Rice 30, Texas 31
Winner: Texas
Unranked Rice vs. Unranked Texas · 1-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 34/35 · Overtime 0/15
34
Game score
- 1992Week 6
Texas at Rice
Texas 23, Rice 21
Winner: Texas
Unranked Texas vs. Unranked Rice · 2-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 33/35 · Overtime 0/15
33
Game score
- 1986Week 6
Texas at Rice
Texas 17, Rice 14
Winner: Texas
Unranked Texas vs. Unranked Rice · 3-point margin
Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 32/35 · Overtime 0/15
32
Game score
Methodology
How each game earns up to 100 points
AP ranking, 50 points: each team earns 26 minus its game-time AP rank. Unranked teams receive zero.
Closeness, 35 points: the final margin is subtracted from 35, with margins of 35 or more receiving zero.
Overtime, 15 points: overtime starts at nine points and rises by two per additional period, capped at 15.
Regular-season rankings use the AP Top 25 recorded for the game's week. Postseason meetings use the final regular-season AP poll before bowl and playoff results. Games before 2005 remain in the ranking but do not link to unsupported box-score pages. Videos are matched by canonical game ID or by a rematch-safe season matchup.