1958 Rice Owls football team

1958 Southwest Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

The 1958 Rice Owls football team represented Rice University during the 1958 NCAA University Division football season.^[1] The Owls were led by 19th-year head coach Jess Neely and played their home games at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas. They competed as members of the Southwest Conference, finishing tied for second.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result
September 20	LSU*		Rice Stadium Houston, TX	L 6–26
September 27	at Stanford*		Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA	W 30–7
October 4	No. 14 Purdue*		Rice Stadium Houston, TX	L 0–24
October 11	at Arkansas		Razorback Stadium Fayetteville, AR	W 24–0
October 18	at No. 16 SMU		Cotton Bowl Dallas, TX (rivalry)	W 13–7
October 25	No. 4 Texas		Rice Stadium Houston, TX (rivalry)	W 34–7
November 8	No. 3 Army*	No. 13	Rice Stadium Houston, TX	L 7–14
November 15	Texas A&M	No. 17	Rice Stadium Houston, TX	L 21–28
November 22	No. 7 TCU		Rice Stadium Houston, TX	L 10–21
November 29	at Baylor		Baylor Stadium Waco, TX	W 33–21
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

^ "1958 Rice Owls Schedule and Results". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved August 2, 2018.

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1958 Southwest Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 10 TCU $	5	–	1	–	0	8	–	2	–	1
No. 18 SMU	4	–	2	–	0	6	–	4	–	0
Rice	4	–	2	–	0	5	–	5	–	0
Texas	3	–	3	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Arkansas	2	–	4	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Texas A&M	2	–	4	–	0	4	–	6	–	0
Baylor	1	–	5	–	0	3	–	7	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll