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Published on November 23, 2005, we took a look into where the Tulane football team stood in their chances to make it to the American Conference championship game. From the numbers we crunched, we surmised the Green Wave would be there, if they take care of business. Here are excerpts from that article.
"There are now 5 teams that have a mathematical shot at the league championship game. Since the American uses head-to-head as one of its prime decision-making factors, here is where that stands:
USF lost to Navy which lost to UNT which lost to USF.
Tulane only played ECU among the four, and ECU only played Tulane; Tulane won.
"So here are the records amongst each other for each of the five teams:
Tulane: 1-0
Navy: 1-1
UNT: 1-1
USF: 1-1
ECU: 0-1
"If there are more than 2 teams tied for first or second, the blended computer rankings the American uses include varied rankings including ESPN's S+P and SOR, which currently rank these 5 teams:
S+P SOR
Tulane 4
USF 2
Navy 5
ECU 3
N. Texas 1
"If there are more than 2 teams tied for first or second, the blended computer rankings the American Conference uses include varied rankings including ESPN's S+P and SOR, which currently rank these 5 teams.
"The American uses the College Football Playoffs rankings before the computer rankings in the case of multi-team ties; Tulane was #24 in last week's CFP, and UNT now sits at 10-1 with their win over Rice. North Texas could slip into the College Football Playoff top 25 this week. If these two teams are in the CFP 25 and they both win, then it's Tulane vs. North Texas for the American Conference trophy."
Sure enough, our predictions rang true, as those two teams met on the first Friday in December for the American Conference trophy.
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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.