On Saturday afternoon, the Texas Longhorns will face the Rice Owls on a football field for the 97th time. Texas decisively leads the all-time series between the schools with a record of 74-21-1, and has won each of the past 15 meetings.
Rice, which is located in Houston, was founded as the Rice Institute in 1912 (it officially became Rice University in 1960) and fielded its first varsity football team that same year, though it was not until 1914 that it played a schedule solely consisting of collegiate opponents. Texas and Rice played for the first time in 1914, at which point UT had been playing football for two full decades.