photo by Houston Chronicle Michael Ciaglo: Rice Owls quarterback Jackson Tyner celebrates after catching a pass on a double reverse against the UTEP Miners at Rice Stadium in Houston on Sat Nov 19th

The Rice Owls (3-8) who got a victory over UTEP last week are a team that got a late break in the season they limited teams to 21 to 24 points. The Owls have a new quarterback this late in the season that’s very odd but Rice started freshman quarterback Jackson Tyner who played half of the last game after their starting quarterback got hurt. The Owls are a little bit different of a team than you can scout before and it’s very weird to see a non conference game this late in the season for Stanford.

Stanford going into today’s game at Stanford Stadium are 10-0 against non conference opponents in Cardinal head coach David Shaw’s tenure there. Folks are saying look for more of the same out of this one. The Cardinal’s running back Christian McCaffrey scored three touchdowns and ran for 284 yards and had quite an outing in his last game against the Cal Bears in last week’s big game.

Matt Harrington does the Stanford Cardinal podcasts each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com