Traveling to Oxford for the Playoffs? Better Bring Your Credit Card
The Tulane football team has made it to its first-ever College Football Playoffs. The 11th seeded Green Wave will be traveling to Oxford, Mississippi for a December 20th matchup with the 6th seeded Ole Miss Rebels. It's a rematch of a game played exactly three months earlier in northern Mississippi when the Wave lost by 35-points to the then 11th ranked Rebels.
As fans plan on taking the almost five-and-a-half hour trip, folks are making plans for staying as close to Vaught Hemingway Stadium as they can. Then, you better get ready to pay a pretty penny.
When ON SI Tulane tried to price out hotels in and around the Ole Miss campus, there was only one choice. We'll save that one for last. In the meantime, we found hotels 20-plus miles away from Oxford.
Each of these prices we got were from Hotels.com and for one night, December 19, 2025.
We start in Batesville, MS, a thirty minute drive to Oxford:
Seems a little expensive? Then how about this one in, still in Batesville:
Hmm...Still a little much? We can go much lower, if you'd like, and there are plenty to choose from, you just don't know where you'll be driving from, except that it's 29-miles from the Ole Miss campus.
Or, you can stay right in downtown Oxford (if it's still available) for the low, low price of
Yeah, you read right: $1,234 per night.
Get out the credit card, folks. This is going to be an expensive trip.
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.