Originally posted by barkingwater2000:
How many times are you guys going to play Rice?
"You guys" being Texas or "you guys" being Baylor?
If you mean Texas, we used to play them every year since they were also in the SWC. Since forming the Big 12 we've played them 11 times in 19 years and, based on future schedules that are full through 2018, we'll play them 12 times in 23 seasons (as we have them on the slate 1 more time).
Texas has certainly played several 2-for-1 series with Rice, giving us two home games and a game in Houston... so yeah, if Baylor is doing something similar, fine. But that said, the years that we've played Rice as an OOC opponent we've also played...
-UCLA and Rutgers
-UCLA and New Mexico State
-NC State, Stanford, and Rutgers
-Arkansas, New Mexico State, and Tulane
-Arkansas and North Texas
-Ohio State and Louisiana-Laf
-Ohio State and North Texas
-TCU, UCF, and Arkansas State ****
-Arkansas, UTEP, and FAU
-UCLA, Wyoming, and FAU
-UCLA and BYU
-Notre Dame and Cal
Point being that Rice was never our biggest OOC game. Every year we played at least one "BCS Conference" opponent except for the year we played TCU (who, of course, now is in the Big 12). And, for what it's worth, I was one of the ones who felt that the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th of those were too light since they only had one big opponent. I much prefer our current scheduling policy of 2 power-5 opponents (counting Notre Dame and BYU). I'm glad we started upgrading them, even if it means things are a bit rougher until we get back to where we're supposed to be.