1988 Rice Owls football team

The 1988 Rice Owls football team represented Rice University in the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team compiled a 0–11 record.

1988 Southwest Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 12 Arkansas $	7	–	0	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
Texas A&M*	6	–	1	–	0	7	–	5	–	0
No. 18 Houston	5	–	2	–	0	9	–	3	–	0
Texas Tech	4	–	3	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Baylor	2	–	5	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Texas	2	–	5	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
TCU	2	–	5	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Rice	0	–	7	–	0	0	–	11	–	0

$ – Conference champion *- Ineligible for conference championship and postseason bowl games due to NCAA sanctions. Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 10	Indiana*	Rice Stadium Houston, TX	L 14–41	17,300
September 24	at Southwestern Louisiana*	Cajun Field Lafayette, LA	L 16–41
October 1	Texas	Rice Stadium Houston, TX	L 13–20	35,000
October 8	at TCU	Amon G. Carter Stadium Fort Worth, TX	L 10–21
October 15	Texas Tech	Rice Stadium Houston, TX	L 36–38	10,500
October 22	at Texas A&M	Kyle Field College Station, TX	L 10–24
October 29	at No. 11 Arkansas	War Memorial Stadium Little Rock, AR	L 14–21	50,612
November 5	No. 1 Notre Dame*	Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN	L 11–54	59,075
November 12	Baylor	Rice Stadium Houston, TX	L 10–20	13,200
November 19	North Texas*	Rice Stadium Houston, TX	L 17–33	8,500	^[1]
November 26	at No. 14 Houston	Astrodome Houston, TX (rivalry)	L 14–45	16,923
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

^ "North Texas hands Rice seventeenth-straight loss". Victoria Advocate. November 20, 1988. Retrieved October 30, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "1988 Rice Owls Schedule and Results". Sports Reference. Retrieved June 30, 2019.

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