Joining us now here on the flagship podcast preview.

We are looking ahead to Rice and we're doing it with Matthew Bartlett, who runs at the roost.com.

I think they just call it the roost, but he is the foremost expert on rice football.

And of course, the Longhorns and the Rice Owls will tee it up at 7 o'clock on Saturday night

on the Longhorn Network.

Matthew, thanks so much for joining us.

How you doing?

Absolutely.

Thanks for having me and getting our tour of the Southwest Conference of Old, right?

Yeah.

It's like old home week.

And it's interesting that these two teams, who of course were mates back in the Southwest Conference,

have both played a former Southwest Conference foe in Arkansas.

And Matthew Rice did a heck of a lot better than Texas did for three quarters. I mean, I mean, Rice was leading

Arkansas, 17 to 7 in the third quarter. Tell us about that game. That was in Fayetteville.

Yeah, it was a pretty crazy. Me and my co-hosts on our podcast this week, he per-or, last week,

he predicted, you know, we're going to have like two or three

national writers tweeting at halftime, what the heck is happening? Rice is leading Arkansas.

And he was right. And the formula for Rice, as has been the past couple years under Mike Blumgren,

is, you know, play great defense. And the Rice defense, five three and outs by the Arkansas

offense in the first half, KJ Jefferson, their quarterback, had one big breakaway run at 250

pounds. He's hard to stop. But other than that, it was smooth sailing. So that's been kind of the

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