Rice. Has Rice ever been good? Have they ever mattered? What in the hell are they doing in FBS?
Doing some research....
they made some Cotton Bowls and a Sugar Bowl in the 40s and 50s. But look at this - Rice hasn't been ranked at all, during any week, since 1962. What are they doing? What's the point? Sure, they're in whatever conference now, but they were in the SWC....which means they went 33 years in a P5-like conference without being ranked even once.
So I'm an SEC guy, and naturally my brain goes to Vanderbilt. Technically, Vanderbilt hasn't gone 33 years without being ranked - only 29....but for only one week. They started 4-0 in 1984 and proceeded to lose to garbage-shit Tulane and many others. The point is, Vanderbilt has only that one week from 1959-2007. 48 fuggin' years of irrelevance.
I DON'T GET IT. Why are they a thing? Why isn't Vanderbilt a Chicago-type thing? I mean, when there is no progress over decades, what are you doing???
Anywho, yeah, Rice. WTF?