No. 25 Tulane offers a lesson in dramatic 1-year turnarounds
2 years, 2 months ago

No. 25 Tulane offers a lesson in dramatic 1-year turnarounds

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “It was a lost season.” Tulane is a private university with about 8,000 undergraduate students on campus in New Orleans’ historic, largely residential “Uptown” neighborhood. “You’ve got issues if coaches aren’t coaching hard, players aren’t playing hard and you see dissention in the hallways, in the locker rooms and at practice,” Dannen said. “But the environment has changed.” Meanwhile, Pratt and Tulane’s other captains — linebackers Nick Anderson and Dorian Williams, and offensive lineman Sincere Haynesworth — vowed to promote accountability by preaching the value of being on time and giving effort in every activity, from lifting and conditioning to practice and video review. But, like coach Fritz said, we ain’t nowhere near done yet.” ___ More AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/college-football and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 Sign up for the AP’s college football newsletter: https://apnews.com/cfbtop25

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Florida and Tulane excited about opportunity to end season on positive note in Gasparilla Bowl
5 days, 3 hours ago

Florida and Tulane excited about opportunity to end season on positive note in Gasparilla Bowl

Associated Press  

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida is brimming with confidence after turning its season around. The Gators and Green Wave meet in Friday’s Gasparilla Bowl, with Florida playing just two hours south of its campus and aiming to build on a late surge under coach Billy Napier. “We’re playing Florida in their backyards, and they are playing like one of the best …

Desrosiers scores 3 TDs as Memphis tops No. 18 Tulane 34-24 to end the Green Wave’s faint CFP hopes
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Desrosiers scores 3 TDs as Memphis tops No. 18 Tulane 34-24 to end the Green Wave’s faint CFP hopes

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “You can’t have the critical mistakes we had,” said Tulane coach Jon Sumrall, whose team needed to win its regular-season finale and the American Athletic Conference title game to have any realistic chance at making the new 12-team CFP. We’re all hurting, and it should hurt …

No. 18 Tulane’s postseason hopes ride on the Wave’s ability to contain prolific Memphis
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3 weeks, 5 days ago

No. 18 Tulane’s postseason hopes ride on the Wave’s ability to contain prolific Memphis

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “They haven’t had a lot go wrong.. They’ve got the best talent accumulation of anybody in our league.” Tulane has won its past 17 AAC regular season games — a streak that dates back to 2022 and represents the longest active conference winning streak in the …

No. 18 Tulane braces for Memphis’ high-octane offense in Thanksgiving clash between 9-win teams
3 weeks, 6 days ago

No. 18 Tulane braces for Memphis’ high-octane offense in Thanksgiving clash between 9-win teams

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Tulane needs to win to host the AAC title game against Army and also must win to keep alive hope of getting a spot in the new 12-team College Football Playoff. KEY MATCHUP Memphis’ balanced, prolific and highly experienced offense, which averages 441 yards and 35.3 …

No. 21 LSU and Florida are both hoping for a bounce-back following a beatdown
1 month, 1 week ago

No. 21 LSU and Florida are both hoping for a bounce-back following a beatdown

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “I’m not in a position to worry about what people are saying about the overall health of the program,” said Kelly, whose Tigers have won 10 of 13 over the past year. “It’s crazy to see how much effort he is putting into playing,” left tackle …

No. 15 Oklahoma wary of talented Tulane after struggling to win as heavy favorite vs. Houston
3 months, 1 week ago

No. 15 Oklahoma wary of talented Tulane after struggling to win as heavy favorite vs. Houston

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Among them was the Green Wave’s 10-game road win streak — the third best active run in the country behind Georgia and Michigan — and their 24-6 record over the past two seasons. He stayed on the most recent achievements the longest —- the Green Wave …

No. 17 K-State tests road form against a Tulane team seeking CFP credibility
3 months, 2 weeks ago

No. 17 K-State tests road form against a Tulane team seeking CFP credibility

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! It’s a ready-made revenge game — not that Kansas State coach Chris Klieman necessarily wants the Wildcats buying into that. Last week, the Green Wave rolled to a 52-0 victory over Southeastern Louisiana of the second-tier Football Championship Subdivision in the program’s first game under new …

No. 18 LSU’s first response to coach Kelly’s table-pounding comes against Nicholls State
3 months, 2 weeks ago

No. 18 LSU’s first response to coach Kelly’s table-pounding comes against Nicholls State

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! — The sight of LSU coach Brian Kelly pounding a table following a season-opening loss to Southern California — and the sound of him saying his quarterback got “outplayed” — won’t soon be forgotten. “Whatever my comments were,” Kelly said, “they were not intended in any …

No. 17 Kansas State seeks maiden win over Tulane, which would like a victory to bolster CFP resume
3 months, 2 weeks ago

No. 17 Kansas State seeks maiden win over Tulane, which would like a victory to bolster CFP resume

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! KEY MATCHUP Kansas State’s veteran defense, which returns eight starters, against Tulane freshman quarterback Darian Mensah, who surprisingly won the starting job over Oregon transfer Ty Thompson and returning back Kai Horton. Tulane: WR Mario Williams, a transfer from USC, caught four passes for 124 yards …

Conference realignment makes future USC-LSU opening matchups unlikely
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Conference realignment makes future USC-LSU opening matchups unlikely

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “The first game, there’s always the sense of new and excitement and you’re kind of waiting to see what you really are and what the opponent really is.” Or as Trojans quarterback Miller Moss noted: “These are the kinds of games you come to USC to …

Tulane welcomes Jon Sumrall, an ex-Green Wave assistant, ‘back home’ as head coach
1 year ago

Tulane welcomes Jon Sumrall, an ex-Green Wave assistant, ‘back home’ as head coach

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “I believe what lies ahead is big.” Tulane, currently ranked 23rd in the AP Top 25 Poll, also has won 23 games in the past two seasons, including the 2022 American Athletic Conference title and last season’s Cotton Bowl. “We’re going to make the College Football …

No. 17 Tulane, No. 25 SMU bring unblemished league marks into AAC title tilt
1 year ago

No. 17 Tulane, No. 25 SMU bring unblemished league marks into AAC title tilt

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! A New Year’s Day major bowl game also could be in the cards for the Mustangs if they win the AAC title in their last season in the league before moving to the ACC. KEY MATCHUP SMU’s running back tandem of Jaylan Knighton and LJ Johnson …

AP Top 25 Takeaways: Back door to the College Football Playoff is likely to be blocked this season
1 year ago

AP Top 25 Takeaways: Back door to the College Football Playoff is likely to be blocked this season

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! 4 Washington and Michael Penix Jr. used a bold fourth-and-1 play call and walkoff field goal to beat Washington State in the Apple Cup and stay unbeaten heading into the Pac-12 title game. A Tide team that needed a small miracle to beat an Auburn squad …

Tulane aims to back up storybook season and repeat in newly expanded American Athletic Conference
1 year, 4 months ago

Tulane aims to back up storybook season and repeat in newly expanded American Athletic Conference

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Tulane will be hard pressed to top last season’s history-making turnaround that became one of the most compelling, feel-good stories in college football. Two of the league’s more notable receivers played in Conference USA last season: UTSA’s Joshua Cephus and Rice’s Luke McCaffrey, the younger brother …

Inside Tulane’s 83-year path to major bowl game, from leaving SEC to newfound glory
1 year, 11 months ago

Inside Tulane’s 83-year path to major bowl game, from leaving SEC to newfound glory

New York Times  

Shaun King never got his chance. “We’re talking one game.” With Bowden, Rodriguez and King gone the next year, Tulane dropped to 3-8, and the program has faced 24 difficult years since. It’s Tulane’s first major bowl game since the 1939 season when it played in the Sugar Bowl as the SEC co-champion. Anderson turned to Brooks and said, “That’s …

LSU, USC move up behind UGA, Ohio St, Michigan, TCU in CFP
2 years, 1 month ago

LSU, USC move up behind UGA, Ohio St, Michigan, TCU in CFP

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! LSU moved up to fifth and Southern California was sixth Tuesday night in the College Football Playoff rankings behind Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan and TCU. Michigan is at Ohio State on Saturday and USC hosts Notre Dame, which checked in at 15th in the selection committee’s …

Dominant first half pushes No. 25 Tulane past Memphis 38-28
2 years, 2 months ago

Dominant first half pushes No. 25 Tulane past Memphis 38-28

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! 25 Tulane celebrated its first Top 25 ranking since 1998 with a dominant first half and hung on to beat Memphis 38-28 on Saturday. “Not the way we wanted to start the game by any stretch of the imagination.” Pratt and the Tulane offense drove 80 …

No. 25 Tulane aims to validate ranking vs. hard-luck Memphis
2 years, 2 months ago

No. 25 Tulane aims to validate ranking vs. hard-luck Memphis

Associated Press  

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! WHAT’S AT STAKE Tulane is trying to validate its first AP Top 25 ranking in 24 years while also remaining atop the American Athletic Conference standings. The home team has won the past five meetings.. Memphis has not won in New Orleans since 2016.. Tulane has …

AP Top 25 Takeaways: Bleak outlooks for Oklahoma, Wisconsin
2 years, 2 months ago

AP Top 25 Takeaways: Bleak outlooks for Oklahoma, Wisconsin

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “That’s not the Wisconsin football we all know.” After the departure of Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma fans were bitter but also emboldened by the arrival of Venables, the former Clemson defensive coordinator. Wisconsin won double-digit games in four of coach Paul Chryst’s first five seasons, results similar …

Herd Rising: Marshall basks in storybook win over Notre Dame
2 years, 3 months ago

Herd Rising: Marshall basks in storybook win over Notre Dame

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Fifteen games into his Marshall career, coach Charles Huff’s Thundering Herd became the talk of college football with Saturday’s 26-21 win over the 20.5-point favorite Fighting Irish. “What you’ve got to do is you’ve got to show your players that you are real,” Huff said. Smith, …

CFP talks stall, dimming hopes of expansion before 2026
2 years, 11 months ago

CFP talks stall, dimming hopes of expansion before 2026

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The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! INDIANAPOLIS — College Football Playoff expansion talks remain stalled and the possibility of implementing a new format by the 2024 season dimmed Monday after three days of meetings failed to produce an agreement. Hancock said the management committee, comprised of 10 conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s …

AP Top 25 Takeaways: Not-so-super superpowers show cracks
3 years, 3 months ago

AP Top 25 Takeaways: Not-so-super superpowers show cracks

Associated Press  

Alabama looked beatable for the first time. Credit Florida coach Dan Mullen with back-to-back games against Alabama where — with very different personnel — the Gators were able to make the Tide’s offense operate under pressure by carving up its defense. 24 Miami to Pitt’s loss and the Atlantic Coast Conference had another rough week in nonconference play.. Memphis won …

No. 2 Oklahoma holds off Tulane 40-35 to avoid big upset
3 years, 3 months ago

No. 2 Oklahoma holds off Tulane 40-35 to avoid big upset

Associated Press  

NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma nearly took its hospitality too far. The Sooners’ game against Tulane was relocated from New Orleans because of Hurricane Ida, and Oklahoma’s athletic department and fans went all out to make their guests feel at home. Oklahoma had the Green Wave painted on the 25-yard lines, and Sooners fans cheered when Tulane’s players ran into the …

College football in a pandemic? SEC releases its 2020 season schedule
4 years, 4 months ago

College football in a pandemic? SEC releases its 2020 season schedule

LA Times  

With the same force that it’s known for on the football field, the SEC continues its attempt to plow through the COVID-19 pandemic as it released its 10-game, conference-only schedule Monday. The Sept. 26 start date was chosen in part to allow time for people to return to campus and assimilate before beginning competition, SEC Ccommissioner Greg Sankey said on …

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