Tulane Quarterback Performs Well at 2026 Hula Bowl
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Tulane senior signal caller Jake Retzlaff was under center for the 2026 Hula Bowl, held at the Bounce House in Orlando, Saturday afternoon. The Hula Bowl annually honors senior football players at NCAA institutions. The Green Wave leader was one of a half-dozen quarterbacks invited to this year's post-season contest. Others among them, were Southern Miss QB Braylon Braxton, Virginia Tech leader Kyron Drones, and Blake Shapen out of Mississippi State.
After the game, ON SI Central Florida publisher Bryson Turner was able to catch up with Retzlaff to get his take on how he did and what his performance may have done for his NFL chances.
Bryson also has a UCF YouTube channel where you can access other interviews that he was able to corral after the game. You can see those here.
Our thanks to Bryson for hunting down down the Tulane quarterback and getting the video to us. We've already promised Bryson a Parkway Bakery poboy next time he's in town.
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.