Tulane Football Moves Up in the Polls
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The Tulane football team is nationally ranked for the third consecutive week as the program comes at No. 21 in the Associated Press (AP) Poll and also No. 21 in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll as was announced on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 30.
The program moved up after being ranked at No. 22 in the AP and No. 23 in the Coaches’ Poll last week, Nov. 23. The team is also ranked at No. 24 in the College Football Playoffs rankings that were released on Nov. 25.
The No. 21 Green Wave totaled 373 points in the most recent AP poll to place above No. 22 Arizona, No. 23 Navy, No. 24 Georgia Tech, and No. 25 Missouri. Tulane is one of three teams in the American to be ranked this week as North Texas checks in at No. 20 along with Navy at No. 23.
Tulane also garnered enough points (300) to be ranked in the top 25 in the Coaches’ Poll ahead of No. 22 Arizona, No. 23 Georgia Tech, No. 24 Tennessee, and No. 25 Navy. The program plus North Texas (No. 20) and Navy (No. 25) are the American Conference representatives in the poll.
The Tulane football team (10-2, 7-1 American) has started the 2025 season with 10 wins in the first 12 games including a pair of wins over Power 4 opponents in the regular season for the first time since 1988. The victory over Charlotte secures Tulane a tie for the lead in the conference regular season standings and a place in the American Conference Championship game for a conference record fourth straight season.
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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.