{"id":428009,"date":"2026-09-06T11:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T11:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/428009\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T11:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T11:52:23","slug":"rice-rolls-past-houston-christian-31-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/428009\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice Rolls Past Houston Christian, 31-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article - Paragraph links\">HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Led by Tyvonn Byars with 104 yards, Rice rode a 465-yard rushing effort to a 31-3 victory over FCS opponent Houston Christian on Saturday in the first meeting between the two teams from Houston.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article - Paragraph links\">The Owls (1-0) ran the ball 70 times and attempted only 10 passes. Quarterbacks Jacurri Brown and Gael Ochoa were both 2-for-5 passing with a combined total of 28 yards. Brown added 98 yards rushing and Ochoa had 34 yards which included a 29-yard touchdown run.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article - Paragraph links\">Rice led 17-3 at halftime and Houston Christian kept it relatively close until the fourth quarter. The Owls broke it open in the fourth with Quinton Jackson&#8217;s 12-yard touchdown run followed by Ochoa&#8217;s TD.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Article - Paragraph links\">Jackson also had a 7-yard touchdown run in the first quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Led by Tyvonn Byars with 104 yards, Rice rode a 465-yard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-428009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}