Friday night, the fortunes of Tulane’s football team took a turn for the better. After a debacle in San Antonio a week ago, the Green Wave was able to kick start their offense and defense en route to a 38-32 victory on the home turf of 22nd ranked and American Conference rival Memphis. Here’s what we saw that was good, bad, and ugly. The first half. It was the best first half put together by the Green Wave this year. As ugly as things were a week ago, they were fetchingly good-looking in that first thirty minutes: 364-yards of total offense, 284 of which were off the arm of quarterback Jake Retzlaff, two 50-plus long bombs for touchdowns, and a rushing game though not as strong as we would like it was enough to keep the Tigers honest. Defensively, three-and-out on the first series for Memphis, along with three sacks, and consistent harassment of the opposing quarterbacks made this a solid effort. Going into a lion’s den (yeah, we know they’re the Tigers) and coming out with a victory is better than good. TulRead More
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Tulane vs Memphis
