Game Score: one number for how good a player's game was, from that game's box score alone (50 = an ordinary game). Not opponent-adjusted.
TEAM STATS
RICE
HOUSTON
480
TOTAL YARDS
658
121
PASSING YARDS
536
359
RUSHING YARDS
122
6.1
YARDS / PLAY
10.0
1
TURNOVERS
3
SITUATIONAL LINE
Team
Success %
3rd Down %
4th Down %
Explosive %
Red Zone TD %
RICE
39.2%
25.0%
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18.9%
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HOUSTON
19.0%
22.2%
0.0%
9.5%
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GARBAGE TIME REALITY CHECK
Final Score
“Real” Score (before garbage time)
RICE
34
34
HOUSTON
73
59
This game hit garbage time at Q3 3:45 — 24+ point lead, 20:00 or less remaining. The “real” score is frozen at the last genuinely competitive moment; it never changes any ranking or projection elsewhere on the site (see the Garbage Time Reality Check page for the full leaderboard).
Team
Success % (garbage-time-weighted)
3rd Down % (garbage-time-weighted)
Garbage Snaps / Total
RICE
40.1%
12.2%
30 / 74
HOUSTON
23.0%
28.4%
11 / 42
Weighted splits count each garbage-time snap as 35% of a competitive one toward these rates, rather than excluding or fully counting it — see SITUATIONAL LINE above for this game's unweighted numbers.