The Rice Owls were the laughingstock of college football for many, many years. One-win seasons, three-win seasons, losing season after losing season. A small school in a major conference playing the ...

It’s hard to know what to expect from the Rice Owls football team. In days gone by, it would have been pretty simple. Just expect them to lose. But things have slowly started to change over at Rice ...

David Bailiff walked into a room at a hospice-care facility in The Woodlands earlier this summer to visit one of the greatest players in Rice's century-old football history. King Hill, an All-America ...

One talking point this season has been the job status of 10th-year Rice head coach David Bailiff. He's responsible for the most successful stretch of Rice football in 50-plus years with the 2008 Texas ...

Rice head football coach David Bailiff thought turning the Owls practice field into a barnyard would help his defense prepare for corralling Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel. "We didn't get the ...

Like every other coach in the country, Rice’s David Bailiff marvels when he watches Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin. Griffin has made himself a Heisman Trophy contender by completing 83.7 percent of ...

Rice coach David Bailiff had a voicemail waiting on his cellphone Thursday morning. It's not every day you miss a phone call from a former president. George H.W. Bush, who lives in Houston, called ...

HOUSTON - New Rice coach David Bailiff recently named Chuck Driesbach as his assistant head coach and co-defensive coordinator, and Darin Eliot as his defensive line coach. Bailiff also added Jason ...

OAKALLA — Rice head football coach David Bailiff’s eyes welled up when he talked about his father. Bailiff’s father, Robert, served in the U.S. Army in Korea, and David said he learned respect and ...