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FAU Football: Owls get past Rice 17-14 to keep bowl game hopes alive

Jahmal Edrine scored the game-winning touchdown to snap FAU’s three-game losing streak.

Redshirt junior running back catches a pass while warming up for the matchup vs. Rice.

The FAU football team (3-4, 2-1 C-USA) kept their hopes for a bowl game alive after taking down Rice University (3-3, 1-1 C-USA) 17-14 Saturday night at Howard Schnellenberger Field.

“That was a great win against a good football team,” said head coach Willie Taggart. “It was good to see our guys make some improvements in some areas that we needed to make improvements in [and] we got the result that we were looking for.