December 10, 2008

Give a Hoot! We Salute the Rice Owls!!!

No, the Rice Owls aren't a nocturnal species of avian predators indigenous to Okinawa, they're the second biggest college program in Houston, Texas, and the second-smallest enrollment program in Divison 1-A. This year, in spite of having a successful season, they failed to advance to the Conference-USA championship game, but have put the CFB nation on notice that they are back, having been selected to attend their second bowl game in the last three seasons.

Not merely content to be a side dish any longer, Rice will try this year to win their first bowl game in 55 years--their last win coming in that notorious blowout of Alabama in the 1954 Cotton Bowl made infamous by a play that lives on in CFB annals:

Rice is led this year by QB Chase Clement, who has 41 TD throws and ranks #6 nationally in completion percentage. Unknown by most college football fans, there is a state decree that all QBs coming out of Texas be named either Colt or Chase, in keeping with Lone Star state tradition of sounding either like a gunfighter or a bank. As a matter of fact, President-elect Obama will soon introduce legislation that in addition to getting an eight-team playoff up and running early into his first term, that every Divison 1-A team should have at least one player named Colt on the roster by 2011.

So let's all whoop in up for the Rice Owls this bowl season, and have them break that bowl win drought that made the Navy streak with Notre Dame look like just a fad. Hoot, hoot, Owls!!!

h/t: TC

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Give a Hoot! We Salute the Rice Owls!!!

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No, the Rice Owls aren't a nocturnal species of avian predators indigenous to Okinawa, they're the second biggest college program in Houston, Texas, and the second-smallest enrollment program in Divison 1-A. This year, in spite of having a successful season, they failed to advance to the Conference-USA championship game, but have put the CFB nation on notice that they are back, having been selected to attend their second bowl game in the last three seasons. Not merely content to be a side dish any longer, Rice will try this year to win their first bowl game in 55 years--their last win coming in that notorious blowout of Alabama in the 1954 Cotton Bowl made infamous by a play that lives on in CFB annals: Rice is led this year by QB Chase Clement, who has 41 TD throws and ranks #6 nationally in completion percentage. Unknown by most college football fans, there is a state decree that all QBs coming out of Texas be named either Colt or Chase, in keeping with Lone Star state tradition of sounding either like a gunfighter or a bank. As a matter of fact, President-elect Obama will soon introduce legislation that in addition to getting an eight-team playoff up and running early into his first term, that every Divison 1-A team should have at least one player named Colt on the roster by 2011. So let's all whoop in up for the Rice Owls this bowl season, and have them break that bowl win drought that made the Navy streak with Notre Dame look like just a fad. Hoot, hoot, Owls!!! h/t: TC