Tulane an Early Multi-TD Underdog to Ole Miss in CFP
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The Tulane and Ole Miss football teams will tangle for the second time this season, as the Green Wave visit Oxford, Mississippi again, this time in the first round of the College Football Playoffs, matching the 11th seeded Wave against the 6th seeded Rebels. Kickoff is set for Saturday, December 20th at 2:30 p.m. in Vaught Hemingway Stadium.
Early odds are in, and according to DraftKings, Ole Miss has been installed as a 16.5-point favorite over Tulane.
These two teams met on September 20th in Oxford. The then-11th ranked Rebels clobbered Tulane 45-10. That game was the coming out party for Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss. The senior redshirt piled up 307-yards through the air and another 122-yards on the ground to key the victory for the athletic rebels.
Green Wave quarterback Jake Retzlaff had his worst day as a Greenie that day, going 5-for-17 through the air for 56-yards, though the redshirt senior did pile up 51-yards on 8-carries in the contest. The TU running game was solid, picking up 178-yards on 36-attempts as a team.
The matchup sets up two first-time College Football Playoff teams, but these schools are far from strangers. This will be the 75th meeting all-time between the two schools in a long-standing series that dates back to 1893. Ole Miss leads 46-28 all told, including a 14-2 mark in Oxford.
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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.