New Polls, No Change for Tulane
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As much as things change, that's how much they say the same.
The latest editions of the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches football polls are out, and the Tulane Green Wave haven't come close to denting either one of them.
In the AP poll, Ohio State is #1, Miami and Oregon flip-flop, with the Hurricanes taking the second spot and the Ducks dropping to #3. Both Oregon and #4 Ole Miss both had a bye weekend. Texas A&M moved up a notch to the 5th slot. The American is repped by unbeaten Memphis at #23 and South Florida at 24th. Tulane, just like last week, received no votes from the media.
The USA Today Coaches top-5 stood pat after last week's voting. Ohio State, Oregon, Miami, Ole Miss, and Texas A&M are one through five. The 6-0 Memphis Tigers slip in at the #25 spot. American Conference teams not making it into the polls, but getting votes were South Florida, North Texas, and Tulane again. The Green Wave received eight nods from the coaches, which include Tulane's Jon Sumrall.
As an aside, Duke pulled in seven votes in the coaches poll, just one less than the Green Wave.
After a bye week, Tulane plays host to East Carolina Thursday, October 9th in a prime time game.
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.