Tulane 45, Rice 31

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Team Stat Comparison
1st Downs	19	19
Total Yards	455	376
Passing	188	353
Rushing	267	23
Penalties	4-34	6-49
3rd Down Conversions	10-18	6-16
4th Down Conversions	1-1	1-1
Turnovers	1	0
Possession	33:20	26:40

Air/Ground Leaders
Tulane Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Moore 6/10 125 0 0 Scelfo 5/12 63 0 1	Rice Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Clement 35/55 353 4 0
Tulane Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Forte 39 194 5 46 Scelfo 2 55 0 38	Rice Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Clement 8 26 0 13 Ugokwe 4 3 0 2
Tulane Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Batiste 3 61 0 43 King 2 59 0 47	Rice Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Casey 6 113 2 61 Dillard 9 87 2 18

Scoring Summary
FIRST QUARTER				TULN	RICE
	FG	09:39	Ross Thevenot 38 Yd	3	0
SECOND QUARTER				TULN	RICE
	TD	11:57	Jarett Dillard 13 Yd Pass From Chase Clement (Clark Fangmeier Kick)	3	7
	TD	03:44	Matt Forte 46 Yd Run (Ross Thevenot Kick)	10	7
	TD	00:41	Matt Forte 1 Yd Run (Ross Thevenot Kick)	17	7
THIRD QUARTER				TULN	RICE
	TD	10:16	Matt Forte 5 Yd Run (Ross Thevenot Kick)	24	7
	TD	07:38	Jarett Dillard 6 Yd Pass From Chase Clement (Clark Fangmeier Kick)	24	14
FOURTH QUARTER				TULN	RICE
	TD	13:49	Matt Forte 1 Yd Run (Ross Thevenot Kick)	31	14
	FG	10:18	Clark Fangmeier 30 Yd	31	17
	TD	07:24	Matt Forte 13 Yd Run (Ross Thevenot Kick)	38	17
	TD	07:04	James Casey 61 Yd Pass From Chase Clement (Clark Fangmeier Kick)	38	24
	TD	02:14	Ade Tuyo 1 Yd Run (Ross Thevenot Kick)	45	24
	TD	00:25	James Casey 6 Yd Pass From Chase Clement (Clark Fangmeier Kick)	45	31

HOUSTON (AP) -- Matt Forte rushed for 194 yards to eclipse 2,000 for the season, and he scored five touchdowns to lead Tulane past Rice 45-31 Saturday.

Forte, the nation's leading rusher with 2,007 yards, is the first back in the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) with 2,000 in a season since California's J.J. Arrington in 2004. He broke the Conference USA rushing record of 1,964 yards set by DeAngelo Williams of Memphis in 2005.

Forte tied his C-USA record with the five touchdowns. He scored that many Sept. 22 against Southeastern Louisiana.

Tulane (4-7, 3-4 Conference USA) has won two straight after losing five of six games. Rice (3-8, 3-4), which staged late rallies to beat Texas-El Paso and SMU, saw its two-game winning streak end.

Rice's Chase Clement was 35-of-55 passing for 353 yards and four touchdowns. With 379 total yards, Clement set a school season record for total offense with 3,319 yards.

His team trailing 7-3 in the first half, Forte scored back-to-back touchdowns on runs of 46 and 1 yards to give the Green Wave a 17-7 halftime lead.

Forte, who had 39 carries, scored three times in the second half. His 13-yard TD run midway through the fourth put the Green Wave ahead 38-17.

Ade Tuyo replaced Forte with less than six minutes remaining. Tuyo scored Tulane's last touchdown with a 1-yard run with 2:14 left that put the Green Wave ahead 45-24.

Clement threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Jarett Dillard in the first quarter that put the Owls ahead 7-3.

But Tulane scored the next 21 points to go ahead 24-7 in the third.

Dillard also caught a 6-yard TD pass in the third to bring Rice within 24-14.

Clement threw a pair of scoring passes to James Casey in the fourth quarter.