Green Wave is a Slight Early Favorite in This Week's Matchup with UTSA
The Tulane football team is in another prime time game, as the Green Wave travel to the Lone Star State to take on the University of San Antonio Thursday night at 6:30 on ESPN. The early odds, as posted by DraftKings, have the Wave at a 3.5-point favorite over the Road Runners.
Both teams are coming off bye weeks. The weekend before that, Tulane claimed a come-from-behind win over Army, 24-17. Before their week off, UTSA was shellacked by North Texas, 55-17.
Tulane-UTSA History
This is only the third meeting between the new American Conference rivals. The last was in 2023 when the Green Wave claimed a 29-16 victory over the Road Runners. The first time these two teams met was ten years earlier, when UTSA claimed its lone victory in the series, 10-7.
Another National Television Game for the Wave
This is the first of two straight appearances on national television for Tulane. After this week's contest in San Antonio, the Wave will head to Memphis for a Friday, November 7th showdown with the nationally ranked Tigers in Liberty Bowl stadium.
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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.