Tulane Opens as Early Favorite over Temple
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The newly minted 24th ranked Tulane football team is on the road this Saturday to take on American Conference foe Temple. The game is set to kickoff at 2:45 p.m. in Philadelphia, and the Green Wave has been installed as an early favorite.
The early numbers are out, and DraftKings has positioned Tulane as an 8.5-point favorite over the homestanding Owls.
Tulane in the Polls for the First Time in a Year
The Green Wave just entered both the Associated Press and USA Today Coaches polls this week for the first time this season. The Wave jumped into the AP Top-25 at #24, while slipping in to the 25th slot in USA Today's coach voting. Tulane hasn't been in either of those polls since November 17, 2024.
Tulane is 8-2 for the season, 5-1 in American Conference play with important wins against Northwestern and Duke at home, while claiming a win on the road against then-22nd ranked Memphis. The Green Wave have a chance at making it to the league championship game with a little help along the way. The Wave is 3-2 on the road this season.
Temple is right in the middle of the American Conference pack: 5-5 overall, 3-3 in conference play. The Owls are 2-and-3 at home this year.
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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.