Latest Polls Released, Tulane Mentioned in Coaches, Not AP
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Tulane Not Quite There in the Voting
The newest Associated Press and US LBM Coaches Top-25 Polls have been released, and the Green Wave aren't in that number yet.
The Associated Press voting has Ohio State retaining the top spot, with Oregon moving up four notches to #2. Miami, FL drops a spot to #3, and Ole Miss vaults nine spots to the #4 position.
No American Conference teams broke into the AP poll, though South Florida received 53 votes, Memphis had 38 and North Texas garnered 7.
In the US LBM Coaches Poll, in which Tulane Coach Jon Sumrall has a ballot, matches the AP through the first four teams.
Even though there are no teams from the American in the first 25 in this one either, Memphis is only 16-votes from entering that Top-25. South Florida tallied 29 votes. Navy received 9, and Tulane was able to garner 8 from the coaches.
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.