Jonathan Cary (L), George Chukwu, having just made a defensive stop, are chewing on their mouthpieces watching the Rice offense, late in the game, and hoping that it can get cranked up again

Second quarter action -- you can tell by the way these guys are jogging off the field that the offense just scored

That second quarter was a lot of fun, wasn't it, Jarett...

Rice student section was, in a word, OUTSTANDING

Coach Dilbeck assembles his linemen and gets right down to the meat of things

Yeah, we'd heard that that new assistant coach was a real wiz, but we didn't expect it literally

Lance Luedeker has a hand-slap for his fellow linebacker, Brian Raines, who recorded 17 tackles on the day

Owl fans, cheerleaders had plenty to cheer about -- for the first 43 minutes of the game, anyway

Rice sideline announcer Jorge Vargas gets Coach Graham's remarks on his way to the halftime locker room

Owls are out of the locker room and back onto the field for the second half -- that's TE Will Moss (L) and DL Todd Mohr (R)

Ladies and gentlemen, we believe we've just had a John Belushi sighting!

(Photos by Paul T. Hlavinka)