Having branded Rice football in 2018 with the trademark “Intellectual Brutality,” Owls coach Mike Bloomgren this year employs a benign interpretation of another phrase to embody the hardships and progress represented by the Owls’ 2-11 record in 2018.
“We spent the year learning to play college football,” said redshirt freshman quarterback Wiley Green. “Coach Bloom likes to call it ‘Year Zero,’ and now we can step into ‘Year One’ full force.”