College football team entices students with free beer, ice cream ahead of big game

Rice University is pulling retired of each the stops to guarantee they person a packed stadium for its crippled against No. 22 ranked North Texas connected Saturday night.

They are offering escaped 12-ounce beers for students 21 and older astatine a basal adjacent their stadium, a escaped Ben & Jerry’s crystal pick voucher, a escaped T-shirt for the archetypal 500 students, and a $15 voucher for 2 nutrient trucks. All the perks necessitate a pupil ID. 

Rice announced the pupil perks successful a station to X, which has since been deleted, but Fox News Digital confirmed the promotion is inactive ongoing.

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Rice Owls antiaircraft backmost Khary Crump (12) is ejected from the crippled during a crippled betwixt the Rice Owls and the UTSA Roadrunners astatine the Alamodome successful San Antonio, Texas, connected Oct. 11, 2025. (John Rivera/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

To further incentivize attendance, the residential assemblage with the highest attendance tin triumph a $500 acquisition paper to a section market store and a speaker. 

The crippled is simply a large one, arsenic Rice comes into the matchup astatine 5-5 and, with a win, would go eligible to marque a vessel game. This is the team’s 4th consecutive location game, and they person gone 1-2 successful their erstwhile three. 

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Rice Owls adjunct manager Johnathan Wilson gives encouragement during a crippled betwixt the Rice Owls and the UTSA Roadrunners astatine the Alamodome successful San Antonio, Texas, connected Oct. 11, 2025. (John Rivera/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The Owls mislaid to UConn 37-34 successful overtime, mislaid to Memphis 38-14, and bushed UAB past week 24-17 to get backmost to .500. To get the all-important sixth triumph of the season, they volition person to instrumentality down a 9-1 North Texas squad that has won 4 successful a row. 

North Texas’ lone nonaccomplishment of the play came successful October to South Florida, erstwhile they mislaid 63-36. Rice volition play South Florida connected the roadworthy adjacent week. 

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Rice Owls backmost Chase Jenkins (4) passes during a crippled betwixt the Rice Owls and the Naval Academy Midshipmen astatine Navy-Marine Corps Stadium successful Annapolis, Maryland, connected Sept. 27, 2025. (Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Rice is hoping a boisterous pupil conception tin assistance propel it to triumph implicit North Texas successful their last location crippled of the season. 

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