Below are some very good Rice players in a generally historically sorry program (other than under Jess Neely): Tommy Kramer QB mid 1970s Trevor Cobb RB early 1990s Dicky Moegle RB 1950s (most famous for being tackled by a Bama player coming off the sidelines in the Cotton Bowl--yes Rice used to make the Cotton Bowl sometimes under Neely) Aaron Stanley S early-mid 1990s (led Rice defense in beating Mackovic's Longhorns) "Ah, but I can explain. It was a very rainy field."
Little known fact: those 1,000s of gorgeous huge oak trees on Rice's campus weren't there when the Institute was founded. Back then it was a prairie with few trees. Goes to show that with 30 feet deep topsoil and 50 inches of rain per year (sometimes less, sometime a LOT more) you can grow some enormous trees in not too much time. I'm not much of a gardener (to say the least), but growing up not far from Houston, I thought you could just plant a seed anywhere, do nothing much else, and huge plants or trees would just magically grow in short order (of course they come with huge weeds). I later learned it's a bit harder to grow things in most of this State.
Updated Heisman odds from Bet Online Tagovailoa 11/4 Lawrence 3/1 Hurts 7/2 Fromm 12/1 Swift 16/1 Fields 16/1 Ehlinger 16/1 Burrow 18/1 Taylor 22/1 Patterson 22/1 Herbert 25/1 Etienne 25/1