Cool and Breezy Conditions Expected for Tulane at Ole Miss Saturday
In this story:
This Week's Coverage of Tulane's First CFP Appearance
Monday: Two Words for Those Who Think TU & JMU Should Not Be in the CFP
Tuesday: Tulane offense vs Ole Miss
Wednesday: Wave defensive angle against the Rebels
Thursday: Hear from Some Fans making their way to Oxford
Friday: What are Fans Doing Who are Not Going to the Game
If you had put in an order for perfect football weather, Saturday's forecast for Oxford, Mississippi would be just up your alley.
The 11th seeded Tulane football team plays its first ever College Football Playoff game at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday against the 6th seed Ole Miss, which is also playing in its first CFP contest.
According to Weather.com, Mother Nature is going to be very agreeable for kickoff and beyond. When the ball is kicked to begin the game, temperatures should be around 64-degrees with sunny skies. Breezes should be out of the South Southwest around 11-miles per hour.
By game's end, temperatures should be around the 57-degree mark, but under clear skies.
No precipitation is expected for the entire game. That should make for a fast game on the natural grass turf of Vaught Hemingway stadium.
Doug has covered a gamut of sporting events in his fifty-plus years in the field. He started doing sideline reporting for Louisiana Tech football games for the student radio station. Doug was Sports Director for KNOE-AM/FM in Monroe in the mid-80s, winning numerous awards from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association for Best Sportscast and Best Play-by-Play. High school play-by-play for teams in Monroe, Natchitoches, New Orleans, and Thibodaux, LA dot his resume. He did college play-by-play for Northwestern State University in Natchitoches for nine years. Then, moving to the Crescent City, Doug did television PBP of Tulane games and even filled in for legendary Tulane broadcaster, Ken Berthelot in the only game Kenny ever missed while doing the Green Wave games. His father was an alumnus of Tulane in the 1940s, so Doug has attended Tulane football games in old Tulane Stadium, the Superdome, and Yulman. He was one of the 86,000 plus on December 1, 1973, sitting in the North End Zone to seeTulane shutout the LSU Tigers, 14-0. He was there when the Posse ruled Fogelman and in Turchin when the Wave made it to the World Series. He currently is the public address voice of the Tulane baseball team.