Week 8 · 2026

Rice at Florida Atlantic

Sat 10/24/2026 12:00 PMFAU StadiumConference

81°Mostly Clear11 mph NNE · 54% humidityMeasured at kickoff, by an official weather station

Rice

1–7

Florida Atlantic

5–3

Attendance

—

not yet reported

Passing

AttemptsSuccessYdsPointsAir / YAC

Rice

DeepShort

—

48.022.5

—

4.00.0

0.0

3.01.0

LeftMiddleRight

caughtincompleteyds/att · YAC/comp · boxed = best

Florida Atlantic1 unplaced1 int

DeepShort

30.00.0

68.041.0

11.52.0

3.12.4

9.47.3

8.22.1

LeftMiddleRight

caughtincompleteyds/att · YAC/comp · boxed = best

Rice

DeepShort

—

100%4.11

—

33%1.43

LeftMiddleRight

successfulnotrate · explosiveness · boxed = best

Florida Atlantic1 unplaced

DeepShort

100%2.81

100%7.00

50%2.17

40%1.42

60%0.79

77%0.70

LeftMiddleRight

successfulnotrate · explosiveness · boxed = best

Rice

DeepShort

—

LeftMiddleRight

area = yds · one scale for both teams

Florida Atlantic1 unplaced

DeepShort

140

LeftMiddleRight

area = yds · one scale for both teams

Rice

DeepShort

—

8.2

—

-0.1

-1.2

0.1

LeftMiddleRight

area = points added · one scale for both teams

Florida Atlantic1 unplaced

DeepShort

2.8

7.0

1.3

2.8

2.4

3.5

LeftMiddleRight

area = points added · one scale for both teams

Rice

DeepShort

—

51 · 45

—

4 · 0

— · —

8 · 1

LeftMiddleRight

airYACone scale for both teams

Florida Atlantic

DeepShort

30 · 0

27 · 41

21 · 2

14 · 17

18 · 29

109 · 31

LeftMiddleRight

airYACone scale for both teams

Rushing

CarriesYdsPointsOL / RB

Rice

T. Byars16G. Ochoa11D. Hardeman10Other13

11.714%0%

8.919%80%

13.420%0%

LeftMiddleRight

carryyds/car · stuff · power · boxed = best (stuff: low wins)

Florida Atlantic

L. Farrow17C. Veltkamp8E. Ervin6Other8Unattributed1

1.520%100%

4.024%71%

3.620%100%

LeftMiddleRight

carryyds/car · stuff · power · boxed = best (stuff: low wins)

Rice

164

276

LeftMiddleRight

area = yds · one scale for both teams

Florida Atlantic

101

LeftMiddleRight

area = yds · one scale for both teams

Rice

9.3

13.6

0.4

LeftMiddleRight

area = points added · one scale for both teams

Florida Atlantic

1.1

0.8

5.4

LeftMiddleRight

area = points added · one scale for both teams

Rice

57 · 24 · 91

90 · 24 · 168

21 · 13 · 37

LeftMiddleRight

OLRB 5–10RB 10+one scale for both teams

Florida Atlantic

5 · 0 · 0

67 · 29 · 13

26 · 9 · 1

LeftMiddleRight

OLRB 5–10RB 10+one scale for both teams

Win probability

Florida Atlantic's chance to win after each play · CFBD

Availability

American game day · Sat 9:00 AM CT

Rice

Out

Ben Grice SL

Colten Cole TE

Will Swartz TEnew

Dillan Botts DL

Questionable

Jacurri Brown QBnew

Florida Atlantic

Out

Rain Banick OL

Questionable

AJ Johnson TEnew

Kelby Valsin WRnew

In the box score

Rice

Out 1 of 10 · Michael Amey III

Questionable 0 of 1

Florida Atlantic

Out 0 of 8

Questionable 5 of 8 · Kelby Valsin, Deshaun Batiste, Chris Tooley III, Bo Simpson-Nealy, Ethan Ervin

Listed players who recorded at least one stat in this game. Participation reports aren't published, so a player who played without recording a stat (often a lineman) isn't counted.

Availability this week

Each report this game week, best players first. A dot means not on that report.

Rice1 report

Player	Sat 9a
Jacurri BrownQB	Quest.
Chibby NwajuakuDL	Out
Dillan BottsDL	Out
Barry Jackson Jr.WR	Out
Michael Amey IIIS	Out
Ben GriceWR	Out
Quinton JacksonRB	Out
Colten ColeTE	Out
Ian BothwellOL	Out
Tariq WatsonCB	Out
Will SwartzTE	Out

Florida Atlantic1 report

Player	Sat 9a
Ethan ErvinRB	Quest.
Kelby ValsinWR	Quest.
Bo Simpson-NealyDB	Quest.
Chris Tooley IIICB	Quest.
Deshaun BatisteDB

Previous 6 meetings vs. Rice

Florida Atlantic 3–3 vs Rice

2025 · wk 6Florida Atlantic 27 @ Rice 21
2023 · wk 13Florida Atlantic 21 @ Rice 24
2022 · wk 7Rice 14 @ Florida Atlantic 17
2016 · wk 10Florida Atlantic 42 @ Rice 25
2015 · wk 6Rice 27 @ Florida Atlantic 26
2013 · wk 5Florida Atlantic 14 @ Rice 18

Previous meeting vs. Zach Kittley

Rice 0–1 vs Zach Kittley

2025 · wk 6Florida Atlantic 27 @ Rice 21

Previous meeting vs. Scott Abell

Florida Atlantic 1–0 vs Scott Abell

2025 · wk 6Florida Atlantic 27 @ Rice 21

Research

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