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The Rice Owls will take on the Southern Miss Golden Eagles in the Lending Tree Bowl on Saturday night at Hancock Whitney Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. It's time to continue our college football odds series with a Rice-Southern Miss prediction and pick. Rice just snuck into bowl eligibility, going 5-7 this season, including a 3-5 record in the…

The David Shaw Era at Stanford ended with a thud on Nov. 26. The Cardinals lost to BYU 35-26 to complete a second consecutive 3-9 season. Shaw resigned moments after the game and the search continues for a replacement. Stanford had a 14-28 record in Shaw's last four seasons after going 82-26 in his first eight seasons. Shaw was promoted from…

The UTEP Miners will travel to take on their in-state rival Rice Owls in a Thursday night Conference USA college football matchup. With that said, it's a good time to check out our college football odds series, which includes a UTEP-Rice prediction and pick, laid out below. UTEP has fought their way to a 4-5 record after losing their first two…

UTEP and Rice have a couple of things in common entering their matchup on Thursday night. The two Conference USA teams are both running short on time for bowl bids. And they're both short on positives coming off losing efforts last week. So it's a good thing it's a short week for the Miners and Owls, who get the rare opportunity to play in a…