Scott Abell helped the Rice Owls to a rare postseason berth in his first year atop the program in 2025.<\/p>\n
Tevin Madison aided perennial powerhouse Alabama as the Crimson Tide returned to the College Football Playoff — the program’s first bid under second-year head coach Kalen DeBoer.<\/p>\n
Now, Abell is set to add Madison to his Rice Owls staff.<\/p>\n
Sources tell FootballScoop that Madison is set to depart Tuscaloosa, Alabama, barring any unforeseen snags, to take the cornerbacks coach’s job in Abell’s Rice program.<\/p>\n
Most recently, Madison has worked for the Alabama Crimson Tide with an official title of “football analyst,” though Madison has been the program’s assistant defensive backs coach.<\/p>\n
It’s another step in the Football Bowls Subdivision for Madison, a former three-year player for the Texas Tech Red Raiders who capped his career at NCAA Division II program West Alabama.<\/p>\n
In addition to a stint as a graduate assistant coach at Kansas State, Madison has coached at Illinois State and Southeast Missouri State at the Football Championship Subdivision level.<\/p>\n
Abell guided Rice to five wins in 2025, his first season atop the Owls program after a decorated run in charge of the FCS, non-scholarship Davidson Wildcats. The Rice program was awarded a bowl berth for its academic standing when there was a shortage of bowl-eligible teams to fill all postseason slots.<\/p>\n
Rice, which had mustered a 5-5 mark through its first 10 games of the 2025 season, dropped its final three including the Armed Forces Bowl against in-state foe Texas State.<\/p>\n
In 2026, the Owls are slated to open Abell’s second year at the helm at home against FCS program Houston Christian University before traveling to the Midwest for a game at Notre Dame, which is entering Year 5 under Marcus Freeman and has emerged as an early consensus contender for the 2026 College Football Playoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Abell helped the Rice Owls to a rare postseason berth in his first year atop the program…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[5183,831,399,71961,398,396,397,3,215295,99,215296],"class_list":["post-461634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-alabama","tag-featured","tag-football","tag-kalen-deboer","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-news","tag-scott-abell","tag-sports","tag-tevin-madison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}