Tulane Getting Votes in Top-25 Polls, but That's It
Fresh off their six-point win over then 22nd ranked Memphis, the Tulane Green Wave received votes in both the Associated Press Top-25 voting and the USA Today Coaches Poll, but not enough to crack the magical 25th position.
Associated Press Top-25
Media voters kept their top-five the same. Ohio State is at #1, followed by Indiana, then three SEC schools: Texas A&M, Alabama, and Georgia.
The lone American Conference representative in the poll is South Florida, who eeks in at #25, right behind the Sun Belt's James Madison, who jumped into the polls at #24. Tulane is just a few votes in back of their American brethren Bulls with 83 votes. North Texas has 55, and Memphis has one vote.
USA Today Coaches Poll
In the coaches poll, their top seven remain the same. Ohio State is at #1, followed by Indiana. The same trio of SEC schools in the AP voting are numbers three through five here: Texas A&M, Alabama, and Georgia. Then Oregon and Ole Miss stay put at six and seven.
No American Conference teams are in the USA Today voting. James Madison from the Sun Belt slips in at #25. South Florida just missed out with 99 tallies. North Texas received 98 votes, Tulane 53. Memphis gets six, Navy receives two, and East Carolina gets one vote.
The Green Wave play host to Florida Atlantic this Saturday in Yulman Stadium for a homecoming matchup. Kickoff is set for 3:00 p.m.
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.