AUSTIN—When Hurricane Ike was barreling into the Texas coast and Houston, the Rice Owls were hundreds of miles north playing a football game in Tennessee.

They came home to the country’s fourth-largest city to find flooded streets, damaged homes and more than 2 million people without power. Teammates crashed with anybody who still had electricity, coaches moved families into their offices and players tried to contact with their loved ones.

Still on the schedule was today’s game at No. 7 Texas (2-0).

As whipped as his team might be right now, Rice coach David...

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