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One-year wonder QB Marcus Minor to enter the NFL Draft

New Orleans, LA -- What?

That's right, Marcus Minor has decided to skip his final two years at Tulane as the redshirt sophomore is going pro after just one year of starting. "There was no talking to him about coming back. I wanted to speak with him for a few minutes but he declined because he had his heart already set out no matter what - he said he had already hired an agent and there was no turning back. I wish him the best of luck in his pro career. He was a great player.", said Ron Draggo.

NFL Draft scouts call Minor one of the biggest surprises to come out after an abysmal BCS National Title game throwing the ball despite showing good duel-threat abilities and some leadership, Minor's worst day as a Tulane QB was his last. Minor according to scouts showed that against major pass rush Minor has no idea what to do with the ball through the air, as 11 of his 12 INT's this past season came against a heavy blitz, showing his inexperience, as he only started 14 games in college. Minor has a good size at 6'3", but is not expected to go in the first two days of the draft pre-combine, but if he works out well, he could be a late 2nd day pick at best. Garrett Gilbert, the Heisman winning QB from Texas is probably the top prospect overall and the top QB in the draft. Minor rates out #11 according to ESPN.com, and only a 7th round pick. Most scouts say that they would take Jordan Luallen over Minor, who came out of a triple option system at Georgia Tech and only threw 19 career TDs but started over 25 games. Some see Minor going after Bryce Petty, a backup QB from Ole Miss who lost his starting job prior to the season. It's a shaky situation at this point for Minor as he could end up like some unlikely underclassmen every year, and go undrafted.

We'll have to wait and see. And now a HUGE question for Tulane is do they have a QB ready to go? John Stegall, a four-star QB last year from Texas looks to be the current favorite with the lone other QB on the roster - Jamal Burns, a redshirt freshman backing him up.

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PLAYERS LEAVING

NFL DRAFT
QB #8 Marcus Minor - 83 OVR r-SO
Best year: 2013 - 257/395, 3718 yards*, 37 TD*, 12 INT, 140 carries, 501 yards, 9 Rush TD
Notes: Minor would have broken more records in Tulane's history if he had stuck around. I really hoped that Minor could have joined us in the Big XII as he would have really helped. Couldn't wait to see what he could do in two more years, but what's not to say if he returned this year if he wouldn't leave next year? He only started one season and he fit our style on offense perfectly. He was probably the dynasty's best QB stat-wise so far and he only played one year.

SENIORS

LE #93 Christian Martindale - 79 OVR
Best year: 2012 - 14 tackles, 2 sacks
Notes: Career backup on the line.

FS #23 Samuel Brooks - 79 OVR
Best year: 2010 - 64 tackles, 3 TFL, INT, TD, 3 PD
Notes: Started all four years but missed most of 2010 with injury, was a good player in the secondary, only 2 career INTs though, a great and dependable tackler.

HB #31 Payton Jason - 79 OVR
Best year: 2011 - 12 carries, 57 yards
Notes: Never scored a TD.

TE #80 George Harrison - 80 OVR
Best year: 2011 - 40 catches, 455 yards, 4 TD
Notes: Every year in his four years as a starter, he caught at least 30 balls for at least 372 yards, with at least 3 TDs. His longest reception came against ECU - which was a crazy 82 yard TD. TEs in our style of offense don't have big years, unless they were quicker, but Harrison just had good hands.

FB #41 Eric Jones - 80 OVR
Best year - 2012 - 9 car, 27 yards, 13 rec, 121 yards, TD
Notes: He was only around for two years and like Harrison, TEs and FBs only really are good in our offense if they have some ability to break away. Jones wasn't that quick, unlike Blake Walters, who backed him up.

CB/RET #13 Shakiel Smith - 82 OVR
Best year - as a DB: 2011 - 24 tackles, TFl, 3 PD / as a RET: 2013 - 31 KR, 724 yards, TD
Notes: Career backup at DB who became our starting KR this past year, and I wish I had him there earlier because he was pretty good at it. He could make it at the next level as a returner because that's his best skills at this point.

LE #53 Harry CiGar - Utopian - 83 OVR
Best year - 2012 - 51 tackles, 16 TFL, 5 sacks
Notes: Injuries plagued his final season in a Tulane uniform but he was a great pass rusher ending up with 43 TFLs and 13 sacks in his career. He also had 2 INTs back in 2011, and forced a fumble this past season.

DB #21 Sammy Bordeaux - 84 OVR
Best year - 2013 - 27 tackles, 2 INT, TD, 3 PDs, FF, FR
Notes: Never really picked off passes or forced fumbles (3 career INT, 2 FF, 2 FR) but he did wind up with 144 tackles and 18 PDs after starting in and out for four years. He was one of those guys who you could count on to make the tackle all the time as he rarely missed one.

WR #1 - Jordan Sullen - 84 OVR
Best year - as a RET: 2010 - 20.3 avg/KR - as a WR: 2013 - 42 catches, 719 yards, 6 TD, 60 yard run in BCS NC
Notes: Quite possibly the best play he ever made was a 60 yard gain on a WR sweep. Sullen was a career backup until he became a senior and he had a pretty good year as our #2 WR. He caught 6 TDs as Minor's no. 2 target, and had some good speed.

WR #9 - Wilson Van Hooser - 84 OVR
Best year - 2013: 75 catches, 1212 yards, 13 TD
Notes: Came just shy of Jarmon Fortson's record for receiving yards in a season with a low-yardage BCS NC game. Van Hooser was a one-year starter who back in 2010 I thought his only catch was going to be his 67 yarder when he was a sophomore. Van Hooser was Minor's go-to man and he didn't let him down getting 16.2 yards a catch and having 86 yards a game. Great WR who stepped up with his opportunity to start.

SS #33 - Gregory Hallinsworth - 86 OVR
Best year - 2012: 48 tackles, 4 TFL, 2 Sacks, 3 INT, 4 PDs, 2 TDs
Notes: Four-year starter who racked up 222 tackles and 16 PDs as our starting strong safety. Hallinsworth matched up very well with whoever he was covering due to his good size. I can defiently see him at the next level having a career. Hallinsworth was a great player.

CB #26 - JJ Black - 87 OVR
Best year - 2013: 54 tackles, TFL, 2 Sacks, 2 INT, PD, FF, FR, BCS NC Defensive MVP
Notes: JJ Black had 21 deflections his first three years before turning into a secondary star his senior season with his most memorable performance in the 4th quarter against Maryland for all the marbles with a INT and a FR which changed the game completely. 184 tackles and 5 INTs in his career. Great player.

K/P #12 - Tinzen Ubekista - 87 OVR
Best year - 2013 - 22/26 FG, long of 62, 29 Touchbacks, 46.5/avg punt, long of 76
Notes: 3 year punter, 4 year kicker. Incredible power on his kicks and punts. Long of 62 on field goals and a 76-yard boot punting. Don't think he ever missed an XP and he got better and better as his career progressed. He was a 70% FG kicker 3 years in a row before being a 80% this year. He hit 46.5 yards a punt this year and 34 of his 130 career punts were inside the 20 and 25 were touchbacks. His net average was only 7 yards below his avg YDs per punt, too.

RT #72 Rio Mares - 91 OVR
Best year - 2012 - 12 'cakes, 3 SA
Notes: Great OL. That's all I gotta say.

LT #77 Lawrence Abrams - 97 OVR
Best year - 2010 - 25 'cakes, 3 SA
Notes: There is no way Abrams will not be a first round pick in this year's draft. Perfect size, great abilities and the ability to be a leader to the rest of the line. He was probably the best OL I've had yet.

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Tulane hauls in #5 class, Big XII foe Texas #1

New Orelans, LA -- Tulane hauled in the #5 recruiting class, possibly thanks to being the Big XII's newest member and big-time recruits are now paying attention to Tulane. The recruiting class of 2014 is headlined by 5* defensive back Shaun Fontaine, who was the nation's 17th overall player accoring to Russell Athletic. Fontaine is 6'2" and weighs in at 170 and runs a 4.44 40 time (94 SPD), and could return kicks for the Green Wave along with being their no. 3 DB behind Erik Madison and Wade Brooks. Fontaine was Tulane's only five-star commit, and only the third under Ron Draggo as head coach (Kyle Dickson and Terrance Carr are the other two).

Here is a position-by-position breakdown of Tulane's incoming freshman:

:r3star: QB Rich Nelson - 72 OVR, 80 SPD, 81 THP, 74 THA (Marcus Minor clone?)
:r4star: RB Chuck Graham - 80 OVR, 90 SPD
:r3star: RB Matt Redd - 77 OVR, 245lbs (future powerback?)
3-star FB Tyler Rollins - 69 OVR, 75 SPD, 74 CAR, 77 CTH
3-star WR DeShawn Larsen - 79 OVR, 71 CTH, 84 RR, 80 CIT
4-star JUCO-SO WR David Tyler - 76 OVR, 87 SPD, 84 RR
3-star JUCO-SO WR Victor Harris - 75 OVR, 87 SPD
:r4star: TE Brian Bailey - 74 OVR, 77 CTH, 75 SPD
:r4star: G Derrick Wright - 77 OVR
:r3star: G Kenneth Woods - 70 OVR
:r4star: OLB Aaron Talley - 77 OVR, 82 SPD, 87 HPW
:r4star: MLB Garrett Jones - 78 OVR, 87 SPD, 83 TKL
:r5star: DB Shaun Fontaine - 85 OVR, 94 SPD, 83 MCV, 87 ZCV, 93 ACC
3-star DB Kendall Thomas - 80 OVR, 90 SPD, 93 MCV, 87 ACC
3-star FS Jason Cleveland - 77 OVR, 90 AGI
4-star FS Keith Franklin - 75 OVR, 79 SPD, 88 ZCV
3-star SS Jamaal Archer - 75 OVR, 84 SPD, 81 MCV
Walk-On K/P Abraham Ubekista - 81 OVR, 86 KPW, 84 KAC

And that's it!

UP NEXT: 2014 Season Preview, Schedule, Roster.. time for Big XII Football.

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Colorado, Nebraska leaving Big XII at end of year / Texas Tech joins C-USA

In order to correspond with real life events, Colorado and Nebraska's final season in the Big XII is this one, as when NCAA '11 comes, Colorado will be in the Pac-10 (will replace Washington State) and Nebraska will be in the Big Ten (will replace with Indiana), despite the fact that the moves don't happen until 2011/2012 actually. However, the Big XII will take Utah instead of the Pac-10/12, so yeah. In other news, Texas Tech will be joining the C-USA this season and gets them back to 12 members.

Here's how I'm planning to get things to work in '11:

Boise State for San Diego State
Nebraska for Indiana, then Tulsa for Indiana to Big XII, Tulsa for Utah to Mountain West
Colorado for Washington State, then Washington State for TCU to Big XII, Washington State joins Mountain West
Boston College for USF (Done in '10, as well)
North Texas for Louisiana Tech (Done in '10, as well)
Northern Illinois will be back (replaced by EKU in '10)

So in summary, the Big XII gets Utah and TCU, Pac-10 gets Colorado, Big Ten gets Nebraska, C-USA gets Indiana and Texas Tech, Mountain West gets Tulsa and Washington State. It might not make sense, but it gets done what I wanted with some logic. Tulsa's a good fit talent-wise for the Mtn. West since Utah and TCU will be gone.

So now that we have that straightened out, back to NCAA '10.

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2014 College Football Preview

HEADLINES
> Tulane to Big XII is top news, of course, can they repeat or will they fall flat on their face with a basically brand-new offense?
> Texas #1 in polls after #1 recruiting class.
> Can Maryland win the ACC again?
> With Tulane in a BCS conference, does Fresno State become the new BCS buster?
> Can LSU bounce back with Les Miles on the hot seat?
> Can Texas Tech beat teams like UCF, Houston and Marshall in the C-USA?

TOP 25 POLL & OTHERS
1. Texas(38)
2. Florida(22)
3. Ohio State(1)
4. Oklahoma
5. Alabama
6. Nebraska
7. North Carolina
8. Maryland
9. Tulane (a bit overrated with what we lost)
10. Arizona State
11. Tennessee
12. Penn State
13. USC
14. Georgia Tech
15. Michigan
16. UCLA
17. Wisconsin
18. Miami
19. Notre Dame
20. Fresno State
21. Ole Miss
22. Georgia
23. Utah
24. Iowa
25. Boston College
26. Oklahoma State
29. Baylor
32. Kansas
36. UCF
40. Missouri
43. A&M
44. Colorado
60. Kansas State
62. Army
64. Iowa State
(No one in the Big XII is lower than #64)
67. LSU
91. Texas Tech
120. Arkansas State

Preseason All-Americans
Tulane 1st-team AAs:
O.J. Clarke, RB
Marlin Nelson, DT

Tulane 2nd-team AAs: None

Tulane 1st-team Big XII:
O.J. Clarke, RB
Marlin Nelson, DT
Erik Madison, CB

Tulane 2nd-team Big XII: None

Big XII Conference Prediction
1. Texas (A- OVR)
2. Oklahoma (A+ OVR)
3. Nebraska (B+ OVR)
4. Tulane (B+ OVR)
5. Oklahoma State (B OVR)
6. Baylor (B- OVR)
7. Kansas (B OVR)
8. Missouri (B OVR)
9. A&M (B+ OVR)
10. Colorado (B+ OVR)
11. K-State (B OVR)
12. Iowa State (B- OVR)

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Road Trip, anyone? First five of seven games have Tulane on the road in '14

Here is Tulane's 2014 schedule, not an easy one with road trips to Cal, Auburn and Texas A&M in three straight weeks, we also get #1 Texas, but we get them at home, but we do have to face #4 Oklahoma on the road. The season ends with LSU in the dome.

WEEK 1 - BYE
WEEK 2 - North Texas - 3:30pm - C/D/B-
WEEK 3 - at California - 5:00pm - A-/B/A
WEEK 4 - at Auburn - 12:30pm - B/B-/B
WEEK 5 - at Texas A&M - 6:00pm - B+/B-/A
WEEK 6 - Missouri - 8:00pm - B/B-/B
WEEK 7 - at Colorado - 12:30pm - B+/B/A
WEEK 8 - at Iowa State - 8:00pm - B-/C/B
WEEK 9 - #1 Texas - 8:00pm - A-/B/A
WEEK 10 - Baylor - 8:00pm - B-/C+/B
WEEK 11 - at #4 Oklahoma - 3:30pm - A+/B+/A+
WEEK 12 - Oklahoma State - 12:30pm - B/B/B
WEEK 13 - BYE
WEEK 14 - LSU - 6:00pm - B+/B/A-
WEEK 15 - BYE
CCG - ??
BOWL - ??

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2014 Active Roster

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OFFENSE
QB #9 SO John Stegall - 81 OVR, 83 THP, 85 THA
QB #5 rSO Jamal Burns - 78 OVR, 78 SPD, 88 THP, 73 THA
RB #25 JR O.J. Clarke - 91 OVR, 93 SPD, 95 ACC
RB #37 rSO Mike Marquardt - 86 OVR, 87 SPD, 87 BTK
RB #10 rSR Dan Thomas - 85 OVR, 88 SPD, 91 ACC
FB #28 rSO Blake Walters - 80 OVR, 82 SPD
WR #2 rSR Brandon Palmer - 87 OVR, 89 SPD, 79 CTH
WR #84 SO Taylor Mackey - 80 OVR, 70 CTH, 81 RR, 80 CIT
WR #7 rSO J.D. Williams - 80 OVR, 81 RR, 78 CIT
WR #88 rFR Adrian Anderson - 79 OVR
TE #83 rJR Chad Flowers - 80 OVR, 81 CTH, 78 CIT
TE #85 FR Brian Bailey - 74 OVR, 75 SPD, 77 CTH
TE #81 rFR Vernon Blair - 72 OVR, 79 SPD, 88 IMP
LT #78 SO Brandon Lewis - 83 OVR
LT #75 rJR Reggie Ross - 81 OVR
LG #63 SR Michael Landry - 89 OVR
LG #61 FR Derrik Wright - 77 OVR
C #70 rSR Anthony Patterson - 99 OVR, 99 PBK, 92 RBK, 94 PBS
C #65 rJR Ron Daniels - 87 OVR
C #67 rFR Joel Ferwerda - 81 OVR
RG #60 rSR Jeff Keyes - 85 OVR
RG #79 rFR Nick Butler - 80 OVR
RG #68 rSO Scott Rogers - 79 OVR
RT #64 rSR Chris White - 87 OVR
RT #62 rJR John Williams - 83 OVR

Seniors: 6

DEFENSE
LE #95 JR Dwayne Horne - 85 OVR, 85 SPD
LE #93 rJR Dustin Peterson - 80 OVR, 86 TKL
LE #98 rFR Dwayne Johnson - 76 OVR, 81 TKL
RE #66 JR Stephen Harris - 87 OVR, 88 STR, 88 TKL, 89 PMV
RE #91 rFR Glen Wilkinson - 79 OVR, 84 SPD, 86 TKL
RE #52 rJR Cedric Kemp - 77 OVR, 84 TKL
DT #71 SO Marlin Nelson - 89 OVR, 84 SPD, 87 TKL
DT #58 rJR Derek Larson - 88 OVR, 78 SPD, 87 PUR
DT #90 rJR Melvin Dickson - 85 OVR, 83 STR
DT #96 rSO Jared McCoy - 81 OVR
DT #99 rFR David Blair - 79 OVR
LOLB #45 rSR Kyle Dickson - 93 OVR, 87 SPD, 89 TKL, 98 HPW
LOLB #51 JR Jay Kerr - 85 OVR, 87 SPD, 89 BSH
LOLB #94 rFR Matt West - 78 OVR, 78 SPD, 87 ACC
MLB #50 JR Terrance Carr - 93 OVR, 89 SPD, 88 TLK, 94 POW
MLB #54 rSO Brandon Lewis - 83 OVR, 72 SPD
MLB #59 rJR Ralph Hall - 83 OVR, 76 SPD
ROLB #55 SR Jason Nolen - 89 OVR, 92 ACC, 86 TKL
ROLB #57 SO Frank Davis - 83 OVR, 84 PRC
ROLB #56 rJR Lamont Coleman - 83 OVR, 86 SPD, 86 BSH
ROLB #97 rFR Bruce Meade - 77 OVR, 85 PUR
CB #6 rJR Erik Madison - 90 OVR, 83 SPD, 96 MCV, 96 ZCV
CB #39 rSO Wade Brooks - 86 OVR, 87 SPD, 92 MCV, 88 PRS
CB #11 FR Shaun Fontaine - 85 OVR, 94 SPD, 87 ZCV
CB #20 rSO Corey Bratton - 83 OVR, 93 ACC
CB #35 rJR Keenan Tate - 81 OVR, 90 MCV
FS #48 SO Kasey Capps - 85 OVR, 90 TKL, 91 ZCV
FS #22 FR Jason Cleveland - 77 OVR, 83 SPD
SS #30 JR Scott Barrett - 86 OVR, 91 ZCV
SS #36 rFR Brad Chase - 82 OVR, 88 SPD, 96 MCV

Seniors: 2

K/P/KOS #19 JR Abraham Ubekista - 81 OVR, 86 KPW, 84 KAC

KR: Shaun Fontaine (DB, FR) & Corey Bratton (DB, rSO)
PR: Shaun Fontaine (DB, FR)

UP NEXT: Week 1 Around The NCAA

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Around the NCAA: Week 1

BIG XII SCORES
Missouri 23, Toledo 20
Iowa State 28, Air Force 21
Kansas State 18, Virginia Tech 0
Colorado 30, Colorado State 3
Arkansas 20, Texas A&M 15 (aTm doesn't complete the week 1 sweep)

TOP 25/NCAA SCORES
USF 26, #13 USC 20 (USF ended game on 13-0 run)
Texas Tech 38, #14 Georgia Tech 17 (TT proves that they are a force this year, shutting down GT to only 3 yards a carry)
#8 Maryland 21, Temple 18 (Maryland almost upset by Temple?!)
Southern Miss 27, North Texas 17
LSU 30, TCU 23 (future Big XII member TCU falls short at LSU)

TOP 25 MOVEMENT: USC and Georgia Tech both dropped out (USC 27th, GT 30th). Oklahoma State to #24, PITT to #25.

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NORTH TEXAS PREVIEW

Record: 0-1 (0-0 WAC)
Meeting: 1st of dynasty
Notes: North Texas starts a true freshman QB. Their senior RB Curtis Johnson ran for only 25 yards last week. They don't really have any stars on offense. O-Line leads the offense by far. Defense is led by SR LB Adam Clark who already has 14 tackles and 2 TFL and 2 PDs this year. They have a great young kicker with 93 KAC, his career long is 52, he also hits 45 yards a punt, so they have no problem there.
Projected outcome: Tulane by 3+ TDs.

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NO CONTEST

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Freshman CB Shaun Fontaine got his first taste of Tulane football by returning a 3rd quarter kickoff the distance in Tulane's 51-3 rout of North Texas.

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- What else do they really gotta say? North Texas isn't that good. Their offense struggles and their defense struggles to make big plays. North Texas only racked up 5 rushing yards and their true freshman QB had a rough day going 7-for-30 for 102 yards with one INT and he was sacked seven times. Really, his numbers are decieving. North Texas dropped eight of the freshman's passes, and Tulane had guys in the freshman's face all game long. "I don't know what they tried to do but they put the ball in the hands of the true freshman way too much. It's his first road game and they expect him to go for 40 throws on offense against a stellar defense. He's a good player but he's way too unexperienced for that kind of day.", said one Green Wave analyst.

Meanwhile, Tulane's QB John Stegall had a great opening day as a starting QB. "I felt really comfortable for my first start.", said Stegall after the game. Stegall had a great first start going 19-for-26 for 307 yards and 2 early TDs. Stegall was pulled midway through the third for Jamal Burns as his day had gone on long enough with the game in hand. Burns was a decent 6-for-11 but threw an INT. Stegall seems to be a better passer than Marcus Minor but has a lack of running ability getting just one good rush all day - a 10 yard gain. Actually, WR Brandon Palmer had the longest carry of the day - 12 yards. North Texas commonly had 7 or 8 in the box and blitzed alot allowing Stegall to make easy throws with his recievers.

Tulane's rushing game was not so good due to the 7 or 8 in the box approach as O.J. Clarke only got 64 yards on 17 carries. Marquardt had 34 on 9 carries. But still, Clarke, Dan Thomas and FB Blake Walters all had TD runs. Clarke also had a receiving TD as both of his scores came in the game's 1st quarter. Stegall then hooked up with J.D. Williams to give Tulane a 21-0 advantage then Blake Walters' TD made it 28-0 and then Abraham Ubekista's 27 yard FG made it 31-0 at the half. Ubekista hit two 3rd quarter field goals to make it 37-0, then North Texas got on the board with a 47 yard FG. However, the ensuing kickoff was returned back 86 yards for a TD by Shaun Fontaine who showed his returning skills very early in his Tulane career as he is the fastest player on Tulane's roster. Dan Thomas's 5 yard TD run in the 4th was the game's final score in the 51-3 blowout.

PLAYER STATS
John Stegall: 197.6 QB Rating, 19-for-26 passing, 307 yards, 2 TD, 1 yard rushing (sacked twice, once for 11 yards)
O.J. Clarke: 17 carries, 64 yards, TD, rec TD
Brandon Palmer: 8 receptions, 154 yards
J.D. Williams: 5 receptions, 67 yards
Taylor Mackey: 3 receptions, 48 yards
Marlin Nelson: 4 tackles, 3 TFL, Sack
Dwayne Horne: 2 tackles, 2 TFL, 2 Sacks
Stephen Harris: Sack
Cedric Kemp: Sack
Derek Larson: Sack
Scott Barrett: INT

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WEEK 2

BIG XII SCORES
#1 Texas 33, UConn 10
Texas A&M 31, Cal Poly 0
Kansas State 17, Auburn 10
Oregon 31, Colorado 28
#24 Okie St. 20, Ball St 13
#6 Nebraska 24, #18 Fresno State 14
#22 Iowa 39, Iowa State 16
Boise State 37, Baylor 27
Florida Atlantic 17, Missouri 15 [oops]
#4 Oklahoma 30, #11 Tennessee 16

TOP 25/NCAA SCORES
NC State 23, #23 Boston College 10
#5 Alabama 38, #19 Ole Miss 10
#13 Michigan 18, #17 Notre Dame 13
Army 24, Michigan St. 17

TOP 25 UPDATE
Top 10 unchanged
NC State in, Boston College out

CAL PREVIEW
Record: 1-0 (0-0 Pac-10)
Meeting: 1st of dynasty
Notes: Cal beat Louisiana Tech 31-7 in week one. Cal is a team looking to bounce back. Cal has a very good RB with 92 SPD and 95 ACC, and his backup who has 99 ACC had 93 yards last week. Cal's WRs are very good. Cal's o-line is led by senior AA LT 99 OVR Bryant Andrews. Cal's lowest rated starter on defense is 86 and that is at DT and SS. Their defensive is led by their 93 & 94 OVR OLB and MLB who both have great speed and all-around linebacker skills. Cal's kicker is a bit iffy as his career long is only 49 yards and he's missed a field goal inside 30 yards already this year. Cal is a very dangerous team with a great defense and a good offense, and on the road it's gonna be tough.
Prediction: The win streak ends but very, very close game.

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TOO AGGRESSIVE

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Erik Madison gets his second pick on the day and ends Cal's chances to tie or win the game at the two-yard line with under 30 seconds to go.

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Abraham Ubekista's late FG gave Tulane a 38-35 lead.


BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA -- What were they thinking? After making it to Tulane's 2-yard line down 3 with a well-working offense, why would you throw a fade route to a 6'1" receiver covered by 6'4" Erik Madison with thirty seconds left? That's the playcall and the play Cal will have to consider for a long time and most will relate back this call to "this is why we aren't a top 25 team". For Erik Madison, that's continuing to show why he's an All-American cornerback. "You gotta make the plays, if they're gonna throw it my direction, I'm not letting that WR get that pass.", said Madison. Madison had already dominated his matchup with 6'1" WR all day, already intercepting one throw his way and deflecting another. However, Cal did get one TD Marshall's way, Madison won the battle when it counted most. "I'm trying to outintercept the amount of TDs the WRs I'm covering this year catch. If I give up 12 TDs, I'm gonna have 13 picks this year.", said Madison. His first victim was indeed Marshall, Cal's senior leading WR who he won the INT-TD battle 2-1. (Last week: 0-0).

Anyways, that was the game-changing performance, but besides that, Cal had Tulane on the ropes all game. Cal opened the game with a 24 yard TD as Kerr found Marshall, to give Cal an early 7-0 lead. John Stegall battled back with a 1 yard TD pass to TE Chad Flowers. Cal ended the 1st quarter with a 10-7 advantage on a 25 yard field goal. O.J. Clarke's day turned up the heat when he got a 4 yard TD run, giving Tulane their first lead at 14-10. Kerr then hit Stevenson for a 8 yard TD, but Stegall hit J.D. Williams for a 6 yard TD pass of his own. However, Stegall's late 1st half INT set up a half-ending 42 yard FG for the Golden Bears giving Tulane just a 21-20 advantage at the half.

In the third quarter, Cal started out with a go-ahead 96 yard kick return TD by their RB Wilson and then same RB scored the two-point conversion to give Cal a 28-21 lead. Tulane battled right back with a 67 yard TD pass on a screen pass to O.J. Clarke where Clarke had 69 yards after the catch, basically making it a run with a whole lotta blockers. Needless to say, Clarke didn't have any problem getting to the endzone, he was never touched. 28-28. Then Cal's RB Wilson scored again - 35-28 at the end of three. After a 15 point third quarter, Cal put the pressure on Tulane. Mike Marquardt got his 2nd score of the year on a 3 yard TD run to tie the game back up at 35. Then after forcing Cal to punt, Tulane went on a long drive ending with a 40 yard Abraham Ubekista field goal to give the Green Wave a 38-35 lead. Cal's screen pass to Wilson put them well into field goal range, then a run by Wilson put them at the two, but Kerr's bad decision throwing to Erik Madison gave the Green Wave a close victory in Berkeley and left Cal fans wondering - why would we run play action and throw it?

PLAYER STATS
John Stegall: 17-for-27 passing, 261 yards, 3 TD, INT, 22 rush yards
O.J. Clarke: 23 carries, 141 yards, TD, 3 rec, 92 yards, TD
J.D. Williams: 5 catches, 60 yards, TD
Brandon Palmer: 4 catches, 53 yards
Taylor Mackey: 3 catches, 42 yards
Kasey Capps: 8 tackles
Erik Madison: 4 tackles, 2 INT, PD
Shaun Fontaine: 4 tackles, PD, 20.2 KR avg, 8.0 PR avg
Stephen Harris: 2 TFL, Sack
Dwayne Horne: Sack

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WEEK 3

BIG XII SCORES
Kansas 31, Indiana 19
Iowa State 52, Eastern Washington 13
Rice 30, Baylor 28
#4 Oklahoma 58, Tulsa 7
Texas aTm 30, Texas Tech 27 OT
#21 Oklahoma State 31, Oregon State 28
K-State 27, Northwestern 13
#1 Texas 42, Syracuse 22
Hawai'i 36, Colorado 20

TOP 25/NCAA SCORES
#8 Maryland 27, #25 NC State 24 OT
#2 Florida 22, #16 Tennessee 16 OT
Clemson 24, #15 Miami 15
Arkansas 37, #10 Arizona State 14

TOP 25 UPDATE
Top 9 stay the same, Michigan joins the top 10 at 10th.
Tennessee is 0-2 and still #20.
Arkansas joins the top 25 at #23.
Utah jumps to #15.
NC State dropped out.

HEISMAN WATCH: O.J. Clarke flies into the top 5 at #2. What??

AUBURN PREVIEW
Record: 1-1 (1-0 SEC) [Lost to K-State, beat LSU]
Meeting: 2nd [Tulane 1-0]
Notes: Auburn starts a young redshirt sophomore at QB since Tyrik Rollison is gone. He's got 2 TDs this year.. and 5 picks. However, Auburn's rushing attack is alot better than Cal's.. and Cal had a good day rushing against us. They have two capable backs. Despite their QB's bad success.. Auburn has 17 WIDE RECEIVERS. What the heck? They have 7 TRUE FRESHMAN. What??? Anyways, seven of their 17 WRs are over 86 OVR. Why do you need 17 WRs again? Auburn's o-line is good but they'll be starting a true freshman at RT due to injuries. Auburn's defense is better than Cal's led by 92 OVR OLB Deandre Glover. And pick-hog DB Michael Stewart who has 6 PDs already this year. Auburn's kicking game is OK, with their kicker's long being 46 yards but he's only a 65 percent kicker, so he may not be the clutch factor they need.
Prediction: Toss-up

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SAFETY FIRST

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The option?? at your own one? And you faked a pitch? You deserved to be tackled for a safety.

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Erik Madison seals another victory.

AUBURN, ALABAMA -- For a second straight year, Tulane took away a 'W' from the Auburn Tigers. Everything was going good in the miserable downpour for Auburn after taking a 14-13 lead after being behind 10-0 early in the late 3rd. That all changed when Tulane's punt landed at the ten, then they got a nine yard sack and the game changed with a safety on a fake option pitch QB draw style play.. from the shotgun? Why not I-Form or Goal Line in that situation again? Anyways, that play put Tulane up 15-14, then going up by 8 put the pressure on Auburn to get a two-point conversion after their TD and their lack of scoring after that cost Auburn a victory.

John Stegall continued to show everyone "Marcus Minor who?" as he connected with Taylor Mackey for a 28 yard TD, and Chad Flowers (Who was wide open -- never even touched) for a 32 yard TD that put Tulane up 22-14 and put the game away. Stegall improved to 3-0 as a Tulane starter and another big win on Tulane's season.. on the road. "The 12th Man, I thought, was going to be the hardest part of this road trip we're on. It's our first Big XII game and A&M is pretty darn good.", said Ron Draggo, after the team's victory over Auburn. Tulane started out the game strong after Stegall's first TD pass with Abraham Ubekista's 23 yard FG to make it 10-0 after one. Erik Madison also recorded an INT in the first quarter as well.

Auburn's QB Casey hooked up with one of their many, many WRs for a 7 yard TD and then Ubekista's 21 yard FG made it a 13-7 game at the half. Auburn's SR RB Carrington got Auburn a 14-13 lead, then the safety by Derek Larson which was set up by Dustin Peterson (Where did he come from? 3 sacks today), then Stegall's second TD pass put the Green Wave up 22-14. Auburn's other SR RB Morris scored on a 3 yard TD run, then on the two point conversion, he was stopped inside the one. A huge stop. The game was sealed up with O.J. Clarke's 2 yard TD run, then finally with Erik Madison's INT with 48 seconds to go about 15 yards past midfield (He's winning his own challenge 4-1 this year now). And that did it. Tulane escapes. Again.

PLAYER STATS
John Stegall: 17-for-32 passing, 244 yards, 2 TD, 26 rush yards
O.J. Clarke: 18 carries, 75 yards, TD, 3 rec, 17 yards
Chad Flowers: 5 catches, 92 yards, TD
Taylor Mackey: 3 catches, 66 yards, TD
Marlin Nelson: 12 tackles, 5 TFL, Sack
Dustin Peterson: 9 tackles, 5 TFL, 3 Sacks
Terrance Carr: 7 tackles, TFL, FF, FR
Derek Larson: 3 TFL, Sack, Safety
Erik Madison: 2 tackles, 2 INT
Abraham Ubekista: 2-2 FG, 3-3 XP, 45.0 avg/punt, 43.7 net avg, 4 inside the 20

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WEEK 4

BIG XII SCORES
#16 Iowa 22, Kansas 10
Iowa State 31, Indiana 10
UConn 16, Missouri 10
Colorado 43, North Dakota St. 0
Arkansas State 20, Baylor 17
#1 Texas 48, Stephen F. Austin 0
Eastern Michigan 24, Kansas State 16 [laugh] [laugh].. K-State was 3-0 and EMU was 0-2
#24 Miami (FL) 31, #6 Nebraska 17
#11 Penn State 28, #19 Oklahoma State 21
San Diego State 27, #4 Oklahoma 26 (WTF - SDSU racks up 27 straight points and upsets Oklahoma on the road.. what???)

Big XII wins against the FBS this week: 2 (Tulane, Iowa St.)

TOP 25/NCAA SCORES
Minneosta 30, #20 Tennessee 27 (0-3)
Wake Forest 31, #8 Maryland 17
NC State 47, #7 North Carolina 25
Oregon 14, #17 Arizona St. 12

TOP 25 UPDATE
- Alot of shakeups.. everywhere. Texas, Florida, Ohio St., Alabama, Tulane, Michigan, Penn St., Wisky, Georgia and Nebraska are the top 10.
- Utah's up to #11, Iowa right behind at 12.
- Oklahoma drops to #16.
- Tennessee drops out from #20, NC State drops straight to #20.

HEISMAN UPDATE: O.J. Clarke. No longer in.. one week and done. WR Brant Thomas of Wisconsin leads (31 rec, 402 yards, 5 TD)

TEXAS A&M PREVIEW
Record: 2-1 (0-0 Big XII)
Meeting: First
Notes: We both have +5 turnover difference. A&M's loss came on opening weekend at Arkansas by 5 points. A&M also has a 99 OVR center.. Sam Church, like us. Their Junior QB is fast, and he can throw. 5 pass TDs and 259 rush yards this year. Their AA RB sits in the backfield with 92 SPD. A&M's top target seems to be 90 OVR TE Alex Mitchell. He's got 84 SPD and 86 CIT and 84 RR. He's pretty good and catching and blocking. A&M's O-Line is great. Four starters over 90 OVR. Their D-line is also good and quick. Their lowest secondary starter is 90 OVR. Needless to say, this may be Stegall's crappiest day as a QB. This one's gonna be tough.

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WELCOME TO THE BIG XII, TULANE
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Tulane's 17 game winning streak snapped by Pedro Dean's 39 yard field goal as time expired.

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This was John Stegall's day: 5 sacks, and three picks all to SS Greg Hopkins (avg 18.6 yard return) including one at aTm's 7 yard line which gave Texas A&M the ball and led to their go-ahead field goal.

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS -- The road trip is over, for now, and so is Tulane's winning streak. This game broke Tulane's 17 game winning streak and gave them a loss in their first Big XII game. "Welcome to the Big XII Tulane, Texas A&M 16, #5 Tulane 13!!", was the way A&M's radio described the victory. "I knew the game was going to be difficult for us, A&M's defense might be the best in the country and they've only allowed 33 points this season with our game now.. a stout 11.0 points per game is pretty amazing. They were all over the place, they switched it up alot too. Their secondary is probably in the top 10, if not the top 5.", said Coach Ron Draggo after the game. Tulane was disappointed with their first trip to Kyle Field, but due to joining the Big XII and re-scheduling and shuffling, Tulane will revisit A&M next season. But that's next year.

Tulane made a huge impression on A&M early as on their first drive of the day they drove straight down the field with John Stegall finding Brian Bailey for a 1 yard TD pass, putting them up 7-0. A&M was then robbed by CB Wade Brooks in the endzone, but Tulane had to punt and that set up Pedro Dean's 45 yard field goal to make it 7-3. Stegall threw an INT to Hopkins after that, but A&M was forced to punt, and that led to Ubekista's 35 yard field goal, which made it 10-3 at the half. On the opening kickoff, Shaun Fontaine fielded the ball to start the second half, only to drop it and fumble it right to A&M, and on A&M's first play, Richard hit Parks for a 21 yard TD and we had a tie ballgame.

After Stegall was picked off again, Pedro Dean hit another field goal - this time from 24 yards putting A&M up 13-10. After a punt, Erik Madison's INT set up Ubekista's 27 yard FG in the early 4th to tie it at 13. Tulane moved straight down the field after an A&M punt, getting 25 on O.J. Clarke's carry and then Chad Flowers' 23 yard reception. Tulane hurried up to the line to throw A&M off but A&M was ready for the quick throw to the endzone and once again, Stegall found SS Greg Hopkins for pick no. 3 on the day. A&M went to the air but was faced with a 3rd down which they completed and then went into hurry-up offense which was eventually Tulane's downfall as they left A&M WRs open setting up Pedro Dean's game-ending 36 yard field goal and the underdog Aggies upset #5 Tulane 16-13.

Coaches' Corner

"Obviously it's tough to go on the road to three great teams in three straight weeks - Cal, Auburn and A&M and try to win all three. We got the first two just barely and we got nipped by A&M. They are a really tough team and this was a great venue to play in. Our guys played tough as they have all year but the pressure got to them and we lost today. Can't win 'em all, I guess."

PLAYER STATS
John Stegall: 17-for-31 passing, 228 yards, TD, 3 INT, sacked 5 times
O.J. Clarke: 20 carries, 88 yards, 26 rec yards
Brandon Palmer: 5 catches, 55 yards
Brian Bailey: Catch, 1 yard, TD
Kasey Capps: 8 tackles
Marlin Nelson: 7 tackles, 3 TFL, 2 sacks
Dustin Peterson: 7 tackles, 3 TFL
Shaun Fontaine: 6 tackles
Dwayne Horne: 4 tackles, 2 TFL, Sack
Wade Brooks: 4 tackles, INT
Erik Madison: 4 tackles, INT (5:1 INT:TD allowed)

UP NEXT: Week Five Around the NCAA

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WEEK 5

BIG XII SCORES
Kansas State 23, Baylor 7
#1 Texas 33, Iowa State 0
#10 Nebraska 38, Kansas 7
#21 Oklahoma State 23, #16 Oklahoma 15 <-- Oklahoma's starting QB - injured. Starting RB - out five weeks, starting WR - out for season. Jeez.
Colorado 35, Missouri 20 <-- Our next two opponents

TOP 25/NCAA SCORES
#9 Georgia 27, LSU 21
#3 Ohio State 38, #12 Iowa 16
#2 Florida 29, #25 Arkansas 3
#19 Fresno State 52, Oregon 10 <-- Oregon was 4-0. My oh my, Fresno.
#8 Wisconsin 20, #6 Michigan 10
#24 AZ State 30, #22 UCLA 27 <-- Arizona State finally wins.
Rutgers 35, #17 PITT 7
Texas Tech 45, SMU 6 (Texas Tech's first C-USA game)

Surprising Unbeatens: Florida Atlantic, Troy, UTEP, San Jose State, Idaho (they are leading the WAC), Rutgers (and they've only allowed 13 points this year), Buffalo,

TOP 25 UPDATE
Tulane drops from #5 to #14. Utah joins the top 10 at #9. Rutgers joins the top 25 at #20. USC cracks the top 25 at #25.
UCLA and Arkansas dropped out. Texas A&M sits at #26.

NOTE: Greg Hopkins was NCAA Defensive Player of the Week with 10 tackles and 3 INTs.

MISSOURI PREVIEW
Record: 1-3 (0-1 Big XII)
Meeting: 2nd (2009 Texas Bowl, Missouri won)
Notes: Missouri grades out worse than us in every category but pass defense. Their starting QB is hurt so 77 OVR redshirt sophomore will take the snaps. He's got 4 TDs and 5 picks this year filling in. His top target should be senior WR Antonio Thompson, who has 167 rec yards and 2 TDs. Their RB Phillip Sullivan has 91 SPD and 86 BTK, so he's pretty good. Their O-line is crappy besides a 93 OVR center. Their defense is led by 93 OVR DT Sean Kaplan (who has 5 TFL and 2 sacks this year) and DB Nick Maxey (who has 2 INT this year). Missouri isn't as good as the last teams we've faced, but if we're still on a slump, we might be upset-prone. Let's hope not.

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There's some more for ya, TGT. 3/4ths of the season left to post.

[morsdraconis]

Awesome man!

Congrats on the National Title. Was able to pull one off myself in 2012 with my fellas and it felt great. Wasn't as exciting as your BCS Title (ended up beating Clemson 34-17) but it was still a great one.

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Can a backup QB lead us in OT and survive for four of them?

NEW ORLEANS, LA --- The craziest game in the superdome would probably be Southern Miss @ Tulane when Casey Robottom made a crazy catch to win it for Tulane in 3OTs? Not anymore, Missouri @ Tulane in their second Big XII game spanned into four OTs with the 102-point game which had 48 points in OT (not more than regulation, oops!), and Missouri wore gold pants, which is really important. Could Tulane bounce back after last week's loss? Only the overtimes time would tell.

In the 1st quarter, Tulane kicked a pair of field goals and led it 6-0, we had a fumble in this quarter as well, which we didn't recover. John Stegall threw a pick in the early 2nd leading to Missouri's field goal from 30 yards. Ending the field goal party was O.J. Clarke getting a 2 yard TD run, to make it 13-3. Ubekista's 29 yard FG made it 16-3. But Missouri's so QB Massey found Brown for a 2 yard TD just before the half and it was a 16-10 halftime advantage for the Green Wave. (And Stegall threw a pick to end the half, his 2nd)

Missouri took the lead on Massey's 19 yard TD pass to Brown, then extended it with another 13 yard TD pass to Williams to give Missouri a 24-16 lead. After Missouri's 1st TD, John Stegall threw his 3rd INT of the day but he was injured on the play, and was diagnosed with a torn tricep and will be out for at least five weeks. That is a huge problem because it leaves us with only Jamal Burns at QB, the only other person suited to be a QB on the roster is starting WR Taylor Mackey who has 77 THP and 75 THA. We really do not want to pull Rich Nelson's redshirt either. To make things worse, we get the ball back.. and fumble it away.

Burns leads Tulane to Ubekista's 43 yard FG, and then our defense holds, giving us the ball back with 2 minutes to play. Tulane's main problem on the day was third downs. Tulane was an awful 2 of 16 on 3rd downs to finish the game, and with five turnovers, the game hadn't been pretty. Unfortunately the game looked like it was at it's end for Tulane as we were faced with a 4th & 6 in Missouri territory with 44 seconds to go, with inexperienced Jamal Burns at QB (no career pass TDs). Burns would come out in a five-wide formation hoping to get the first down. On this play, O.J. Clarke in as the #5 WR (4 active), Clarke somehow manages to be open as Missouri runs a CB Blitz, and he finds O.J. Clarke for the first down.. and 33 more as Clarke took it all the way for six points and Tulane took a 25-24 lead with :34 left. They went for two and Jamal Burns ran it in to make it 27-24.

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O.J. Clarke's game-continuing grab

However, Missouri's gunslinging QB who already had 3 TDs and 0 INTs on the day (Missouri was turnover-free), went to work like it was nothing actually leading Missouri right down inside the ten. This gave Missouri a shot at the game-winning TD as Massey threw for Brown, but Erik Madison got in the way and got the INT!!.. only to drop it. Missouri kicked the FG and it was overtime.

Then came four overtimes, but the teams didn't know it at the time. Missouri continued to pass all over Tulane's defense as on their 3rd play Massey hit Brown for a 14 yard score and the XP was good. Tulane had no problem either as Jamal Burns scrambled for a 5 yard TD and XP was good. 34-34.

Tulane went back on offense and went to the air as Jamal Burns hit an open J.D. Williams at the goal line for a 17 yard TD, Burns' 2nd career TD pass, to give Tulane a 41-34 lead after the XP (which was good). Missouri responds with a 21 yard TD pass where Robinson bounces off Wade Brooks tackle and walks into the endzone from the ten-yard line, and the XP was good. 41-41.

Missouri hits a 36 yard FG after Tulane's defense stops them on 3rd & 4. Tulane's game is almost ended on 3rd down as well, as Jamal Burns has a pass tipped and almost picked off and Ubekista hits a 27 yard FG and it's four overtimes now. 44-44.

Then we call an option pass play, Burns sees a hole to start the 4th OT and takes it 24 YARDS to the ONE YARD LINE on our opening play on what was basically a QB keeper - no one went after Burns for some reason. Then Burns sneaks it in two plays later and gives Tulane a 50-44 advantage. Then we had to go for two, and we ran the option. Burns scrambled left with Clarke following, they played Burns only to leave Clarke wide open and he went untouched for two. 52-44. Now Missouri had to score a TD and get the 2-point conversion to push it to five overtimes. Massey found a wide open Robinson for a 8 yard strike to make it 52-50.

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Now the play that could end the game. Strangely Missouri abandoned a QB who was 33-for-54 on the day and who had torched Tulane for 413 yards and 6 TDs and tried to fool Tulane with a rush from an offense who had 39 rush yards against the Green Wave. Let's see what happened..

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QB Choice run to the right with the handoff and SCOTT BARRETT WASN'T FOOLED!! TULANE WINS!!

Why did they ever abandon the pass there? Scott Barrett gets the TFL on RB Sullivan and Tulane with a horrible 5 turnover day somehow wins it 52-50 in FOUR OVERTIMES.

PLAYER STATS
Jamal Burns: 13-for-22 passing, 174 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT, 11 carries, 82 yards, 2 TD, 2 two-point conversion runs
John Stegall (injured): 14-for-24 passing, 187 yards, 3 INT
O.J. Clarke: 16 carries, 98 yards, TD, 10 rec, 85 yards, TD
J.D. Williams: 6 catches, 82 yards, TD
Brian Bailey: 3 catches, 54 yards
Taylor Mackey: 3 catches, 31 yards
Chad Flowers: 3 catches, 56 yards
Terrance Carr: 11 tackles, TFL
Scott Barrett: 7 tackles, TFL
Derek Larson: 5 tackles, 3 TFL, Sack
Jason Nolen: 5 tackles, 2 TFL, Sack
Marlin Nelson: 3 TFL, 3 Sacks
Abraham Ubekista: 5-5 FG, 3-3 XP

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WEEK 6

BIG XII SCORES
Kansas State 21, #17 Oklahoma State 17
Iowa State 23, #8 Nebraska 17
Texas A&M 10, Kansas 9
#1 Texas 37, #22 Oklahoma 10
Colorado 20, Baylor 9

TOP 25/NCAA SCORES
Texas Tech 28, Houston 15
South Carolina 31, #21 Ole Miss 3
West Virginia 26, #20 Rutgers 17
Tennessee 33, #7 Georgia 28
Indiana 31, #5 Wisconsin 23
Jinxed?: FAU, Idaho, SJSU, Rutgers, UTEP all lose / Troy, Buffalo still unbeaten

TOP 25
1. Texas(36)
2. Florida(21)
3. Ohio State(2)
4. Alabama(1)
5. Penn State(1)
6. Utah
7. Michigan
8. North Carolina
9. Notre Dame
10. Maryland
11. Tulane (I'd say we're overrated)
12. Georgia
13. Iowa
14. Miami
15. Fresno State
16. Wisconsin (down 11)
17. Nebraska (down 9)
18. Tennessee (up from no votes with a 2-3 record)
19. PITT
20. West Virginia (unbeaten)
21. USC
22. Texas A&M
23. Rutgers
24. Okie State
25. Oregon
Outside: 30. UCF, 31. Buffalo
Dropped Out: NC State, Ole Miss, Oklahoma, Arizona State

Big XII North: K-State, Colorado 2-0 / Iowa State, Nebraska 1-1 / Kansas, Missouri 0-2
Big XII South: Texas, A&M 2-0 / Tulane, OK State 1-1 / Oklahoma (now without starting CB, too), Baylor 0-2

Colorado Preview
Record: 4-2 (2-0 Big XII)
Meeting: First
Notes: Colorado has the #2 offense and the #4 turnover differential in the country. Colorado has a great JR QB in Andrew Cooper who has 9 TDs to just 2 picks along with 3 rush TDs and he's a Heisman candidate. In the backfield he has 94 ACC and 89 OVR David Bullock. Out wide his favorite target shold be Keenan Lowe who has 7 TDs this season, another Heisman candidate. Colorado's worse starter on their o-line is their true freshman LT who is 83 OVR, and will probably be a freshman AA. On defense, SS is their weak spot with their starter only being 85 OVR. Needless to say, this defense is good and their outside linebackers who are in the 90s in speed and 93+ OVR are trouble as they are. However, we only have to face one of them since OLB Jerrell Weaver (93) is out with injury. So Sophomore Eric Charles (84 OVR, 86 SPD, 93 ACC) takes his spot. Jeez, since when did Colorado have so many fast LBs? Needless to say, this is on the road and if Jamal Burns get injured we have to relate to Taylor Mackey (WR) at QB. Oh my. I don't see a victory unless something happens.

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BOULDER, COLORADO -- The Buffaloes basically crushed Tulane's Big XII title hopes just three games in. "Well that sucked.", said Jamal Burns after the game. Yeah, it sucked indeed. Burns' first start of his career was a rough one as Tulane got beat up some more by the Buffaloes. The Green Wave's injuries continued to grow as well as they lost two more starters: DE Stephen Harris (3 weeks) and LT Brandon Lewis (7 weeks), on top of John Stegall from last week (6 weeks). Colorado plain out dominated this one from the start as Tulane could never get within a field goal during the game. The closest they got to the lead was 21-16 in the early 3rd quarter.

Colorado came out throwing in the beginning as Andrew Cooper hit Merritt for a 14 yard TD, then Hendrix's 8 yard TD run put the Buffaloes up 14-0 while all Tulane had done was throw an INT as Jamal Burns threw his first of two INTs on the day. Tulane got on the board in the 2nd quarter with O.J. Clarke's 2 yard TD run - he was one of the two bright spots on our offense today. Colorado got the lead right back to 14 with Cooper's 2nd TD pass, this time from 4 yards out to WR Wright. On Tulane's next drive they went for it on Fourth & Goal and were stopped inside the one. However, Terrance Carr downed HB Bullocks in the endzone for a safety the very next play but Tulane did nothing before halftime and they trailed 21-9 at the break.

Tulane moved quickly on Jamal Burns' 50 yard TD strike to WR J.D. Williams to cut the lead to 21-16, then forcing a three and out, but then Burns was pick sixed by LB Baker (the Touchdown Maker) but Colorado missed the XP but yet they still led 27-16. Abraham Ubekista's 46 yard field goal cut the deficit to 27-19 with his career long 48 yard field goal. In the fourth, Bullocks re-extended Colorado's lead up to 34-19 with a 2 yard TD run. Burns then hit J.D. Williams for another TD from 7 yards out to give Tulane some hope, but Colorado's 57 yard pass put them inside the 15 leading to Cooper's 3rd TD pass of the day (what are you Max Hall?), to Young, then the Buffaloes went for two as Tulane was completely stunned, and they got it to make it 42-25 adding insult to injury I guess. On the game's final play, a scrambling Jamal Burns was tackled short of the endzone and Tulane lost 42-25 to the unranked but undefeated in conference Buffaloes.

PLAYER STATS
Jamal Burns: 22-for-40 passing, 249 yards, 2 TD, 2 INT, 16 rush yards
O.J. Clarke: 20 carries, 134 yards, TD, 1 rec, 10 yards
Brandon Palmer: 6 catches, 53 yards
J.D. Williams: 4 catches, 96 yards, 2 TD
Chad Flowers: 5 catches, 43 yards
Anthony Patterson: 5 pancakes
Jason Nolen: 11 tackles
Terrance Carr: 9 tackles, 2 TFL, Safety
Dwayne Horne: 8 tackles, 4 TFL, Sack

Colorado: Andrew Cooper 20-25 pass, 219 yards, 3 TD / David Bullock 36 carries 152 yards TD 4 rec 53 yards

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WEEK 7

BIG XII SCORES
#24 Oklahoma St. 23, Kansas 3
Missouri 27, #22 aTm 24
Oklahoma 35, Iowa State 9
#1 Texas 42, Baylor 3
#17 Nebraska 34, Kansas State 32 3OT

TOP 25/NCAA SCORES
Cal 27, #25 Oregon 18
#3 Ohio State 34, #5 Penn State 14
Utah State 14, #15 Fresno State 10 .. Utah State does it two years in a row.

TOP 25 UPDATE
Ohio State jumps to #1, Florida and Texas tied for #2, Alabama 4th, Utah #5.
West Virginia at 6-0 jumps to #14.
Tulane drops ten spots to #21.
Oklahoma rejoins the top 25 at #23.
USF in at 6-1 at #25.
Buffalo at 6-0 is #26, UCF is no. 27, Cal's 28th.
Fresno State, A&M and Oregon all dropped out.

HEISMAN UPDATE
QB David Martin (rJR - USC) leads - 141/204 passing, 1851 yards, 19 TD, 2 INT

IOWA STATE PREVIEW
Record: 4-3 (1-2 Big XII)
Meeting: First
Notes: Fifth road game in the last six weeks. Iowa State is worse than us in the ratings and stats. Their record mirrors ours though. Their starting QB has a 40 percent completion rating and has 7 TDs and 12 INTs. Their RB is good with 5 TDs and 88 SPD. They have a good 6'4 SR WR in Tony Moody. Their O-line is good but they are without their 91 OVR center, so that helps. On defense, 90 OVR Antonio Robertson on the line already has 44 tackles, 11 TFL, 5 sacks and a FR and TD this year. He's good. We also need to watch for their OLB Rich Seals who has 57 tackles, 3 TFL, 3 sacks, a pick and a TD this year. Iowa State's secondary is alright, their DBs are good but their safeties lack. I think this could be a low-scoring game.

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BACK TO NORMAL

IOWA CITY --- Tulane had no problems on their road trip to Iowa to face the Cardinals of Iowa State as Jamal Burns got his first win as a Tulane starting QB with a lot of help from his receivers. Burns only completed 13 passes (22 attempts) but threw for 290 yards and wound up with 4 Total TDs thanks to 161 YAC from his receivers. The rushing game also did well as O.J. Clarke had 6.7 yards a carry and Jamal Burns had a rushing TD.

Iowa State put up somewhat of an early fight actually holding a 14-7 lead after Tulane opened with a 4 yard TD pass to Brandon Palmer, and then ISU's Barnes' own fumble recovery in the endzone gave Iowa State a strange TD to tie it at 7. Then Brown scored from two yards out to make it 14-7 after one. Ubekista's two FGs cut it to 14-13 but Tulane broke open the game when Jamal Burns fired two late 2nd quarter TD passes: a 65 yard TD to J.D. Williams with 80 seconds left in the half and then Mackey's 42 yard TD grab with 29 seconds left to give Tulane a 26-14 halftime lead.

Tulane did not look back from there with Burns' 3 yard TD run, then Clarke's 26 yard TD run, and finally Dan Thomas's 1 yard TD run to give Tulane an easy 47-14 victory with 40 unanswered at the end of the game. Shaun Fontaine got his first career INT in the game, while Tulane recorded three sacks. They also forced a fumble which Marlin Nelson recovered. Tulane only had a 447-267 advantage in offense but Iowa State had to punt 9 times and went 6 for 20 on 3rd downs.

PLAYER STATS
Jamal Burns: 13-for-22 passing, 290 yards, 3 TD, INT, 18 rush yards, TD
O.J. Clarke: 13 carries, 88 yards, TD
Dan Thomas: 5 carries, 19 yards, TD
Brandon Palmer: 6 catches, 72 yards, TD
J.D. Williams; 2 catches, 73 yards, TD
Taylor Mackey: 2 catches, 84 yards, TD
Derek Laeson: 6 tackles, 3 TFL, Sack
Dwyane Horne: 4 tackles, 3 TFL, 2 Sacks
Shaun Fontaine: 4 tackles, INT
Marlin Nelson: TFL, FR

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WEEK 8

BIG XII SCORES
Texas A&M 41, #22 Oklahoma State 26
#23 Oklahoma 38, Colorado 17 <-- Oklahoma starting to get their injured players back
#16 Nebraska 27, #3 Texas 20
Baylor 23, Kansas 17 <-- Baylor's first win
Kansas State 27, Missouri 20

TOP 25/NCAA SCORES
Virginia 16, #7 UNC 13 OT
Clemson 35, #9 Maryland 12
#10 Penn State 17, #6 Michigan 10
#17 Tennessee 16, #4 Alabama 13
#2 Florida 69, Mississippi State 2 (what?)
Buffalo 28 (7-0), Toledo 17
UCF 23, Texas Tech 9 (battle of 5-1 (3-0) C-USA teams)

BCS TOP 10
1. Ohio State
2. Florida
3. Utah
4. Penn State
5. Notre Dame
6. West Virginia
7. Texas
8. Nebraska
9. Alabama
10. Georgia
18. Tulane (#21 Coaches, #18 AP)
25. Buffalo (#25 Coaches, #22 AP)

UP NEXT: #7 Texas (6-1, 3-1 Big XII).. third home game of the year. Their defense is better than us stat-wise and player-wise. Their defense is quick and could make it a long day for our offense. But their offense lacks, so, this could be an interesting one after our big win.

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HOOKED

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Texas pulls through on Fourth and Goal as TE Marques Coles catches a TD with 4 seconds left.

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Tulane's last gasp Hail Mary/Lateral Palooza featured just one lateral ended up 18 yards short.

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- A rough return to the Superdome for Tulane. Definitely when Big XII favorite and #7 Texas is in town. Jamal Burns tries to go 2-1 as a starter for the Green Wave in Stegall's prolonged absence. Needless to say, this was his finest performance that just came up short. The Longhorns came into Tulane with a great defense - one of the better ones in the country looking to pound Tulane. They did a good job of that making Tulane go just 2-7 on third downs but neither team forced a turnover in a clean game with almost 800 yards of offense combined but yet only 5 touchdowns combined.

The game started out quick for Texas with a 28 yard TD pass as Texas QB Josh Lumpkin hit Carter for a 28 yard score. Abraham Ubekista closed the gap with a 47 yard field goal to a 7-3 lead for the Longhorns. That would be the score after the game's first quarter with Tulane driving, but that would end up to be a 23 yard field goal by Ubekista cutting the lead to 7-6. Tulane finally scored a TD on Jamal Burns 11 yard strike to Taylor Mackey. Burns broke off two Texas defensive lineman, rolled left and found an open Mackey in the endzone, to give Tulane a 12-7 lead. Then Ron Draggo decided to go for two to make it a TD-lead. O.J. Clarke walked in the two point conversion and made it 14-7, the same score at the half.

Texas tied the game at 14 as Lumpkin found Carter again for a 15 yard TD pass to start the 3rd quarter. Jamal Burns' 4 yard TD pass to Chad Flowers made it 21-14 in the early 4th. Texas cut the lead to 21-17 on a 38 yard field goal. Then Tulane went on a long drive that stalled with 71 seconds to play and Ubekista came on to try a 28 yard field goal, however, the kick sailed wide left and the Longhorns needed to get 80 yards in under 70 seconds now without any timeouts. The Longhorns under the arm of Lumpkin converted a fourth down once on the drive, making it inside the five and eventually down to the one on fourth and goal with six seconds left. That is where TE Marques Coles slipped out of pass blocking and turned around and caught Lumpkin's 1 yard TD with four seconds to play and Texas took a 24-21 lead. Shaun Fontaine kneeled at the 30-yard line with 2 seconds to go.

Then for Tulane's final play, Jamal Burns passed to J.D. Williams, who lateraled to Adrian Anderson who ran down the right side, slipped a tackle but was pulled down by Texas defenders 18 or 19 yards shy of the endzone as Tulane got 51 yards on the game's final play but it was still not enough as Texas won it 24-21.

PLAYER STATS

Jamal Burns: 20-for-24 passing, 312 yards, 2 TD, 0 INT, 6 rush yards (sacked once)
O.J. Clarke: 22 carries, 111 yards
Taylor Mackey: 7 receptions, 149 yards, TD
J.D. Williams: 5 receptions, 70 yards
Adrian Anderson: 3 receptions, 52 yards
Chad Flowers: 2 receptions, 27 yards
Derek Larson: 3 tackles, TFL, Sack

Texas: Josh Lumpkin 22-29, 264 yards, 3 TD | Joel Carter 7 rec 104 yards 2 TD

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WEEK 9

BIG XII SCORES
A&M 27, Baylor 14
Missouri 40, #22 Oklahoma 21
K-State 20, Iowa State 0
Okie State 21, #13 Nebraska 17
Colorado 28, Kansas 17

TOP 25/NCAA UPDATE
Utah upset on the road in cross-country trip to NC State 27-20
Florida loses to Georgia 20-7
West Virginia jumps from #6 to #2 behind Ohio State as BCS title favorites.
Georgia jumps six spots to #4.
North Carolina jumps ten spots to #10, after beating Miami.
Utah dropped to #11.
Nebraska down to #16.
We dropped to #21 in the BCS, #22 in the Coaches and #22 in the AP.
Buffalo up to #20 in the Coaches, no love from BCS yet at #23.. they face Alabama in four weeks.

NEXT UP: Baylor (first meeting, 1-7 record for Baylor). Baylor is not good, they muster up 15 points a game and have the 119th ranked defense. They somehow outstupided Kansas 23-17 two weeks ago for a win. They've lost to Arkansas State and Rice, as well, two below .500 teams, well Rice is .500 right now.

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A VERY EASY WIN, A VERY QUICK RECAP

NEW ORLEANS, LA - There's not much I have to say about this game but we didn't score in the second half. We went up 31-7 on Baylor and they could only close it to 31-10 at te end of the game. Could we have scored more? Probably. Baylor's 1-7 and we're 5-3, kinda a difference in talent too. Jamal Burns had another fine day at QB.

Burns was the star of the show indeed, although on defense we lost Terrance Carr for six weeks. How many injuries can we get, jeez. A big loss for the defense as he'll be gone until the bowl game. Speaking of bowls, this win makes us bowl elligible at 6-3 (3-3 Big XII). Speaking of defense, we picked off three passes, forced a fumble, and had two sacks. Adam Ubekista missed a 50 yard field goal try in the second half, though.

Speaking of Burns, let's get to what he did today. He threw a 22 yard TD pass to Brandon Palmer, then a 40 yard TD pass to J.D. Williams, a 5 yard TD pass to O.J. Clarke, and finally another 31 yard TD pass to Brandon Palmer. He had 4 TDs through the air and 49 rushing yards and 283 yards through the air. A fine day indeed. Luckily he hasn't got injured because I'd hate to put Taylor Mackey at QB because I don't want to waste Rich Nelson's redshirt now. John Stegall will be back soon though.

PLAYER STATS
Jamal Burns: 24-for-38 passing, 283 yards, 4 TD, 49 rush yards
O.J. Clarke: 17 carries, 74 yards, 26 rec yards, TD
Brandon Palmer: 9 rec, 98 yards, 2 TD
Chad Flowers: 7 rec, 75 yards
Taylor Mackey: 3 rec, 44 yards, TD
J.D. Williams: Rec, 40 yards, TD
INTs: Jason Nolen, Kevin Capps, Scott Barrett
Sacks: Jason Nolen, Dustin Peterson

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WEEK 10

BIG XII SCORES
#19 Nebraska 27, Missouri 9
Colorado 24, K-State 7 (North Championship Game?)
Oklahoma 36, A&M 26
#6 Texas 21, #21 Okie State 7
Kansas 23, Iowa St. 6

TOP 25/NCAA UPDATE
J.T. Wallenstein's Cowboys at .500, upset #10 Utah on the road 30-10. Gotta support a former Tulane man. (Utah #3 to #24 in two weeks)
Top 5: 1. tOSU, 2. WVU, 3. UGA, 4. Texas, 5. Bama
Notre Dame lost to Auburn, drops 10 spots to #14.
#3 Penn State loses to previously winless in the Big Ten Purdue 27-13 and drops to #16.
Buffalo up to #15 in the Coaches, #16 AP, #17 BCS. Can Buffalo bust the BCS???
Tulane up to #20 in the BCS, 18 AP, 20 Coaches.

TULANE AWARD SEMIFINALISTS
Walker - O.J. Clarke 7th
Lombardi - Marlin Nelson 10th
Thorpe - Erik Madison 11th
Groza - Abraham Ubekista 1st (What? Yes, he has the best percentage in the NCAA, we're like kicker U. or something)
Best RET - Shaun Fontaine 9th

BIG XII OUTLOOK
North: Colorado 5-1, Nebraska 4-2 (both have beaten Kansas State, yet to play each other), K-State 4-2, everyone else sucks
South: Texas 5-1, A&M 4-2 (have yet to play), Okie State 3-3, Tulane 3-3, Oklahoma 3-3 (Oklahoma State has beaten Oklahoma, Tulane could finish 3rd or as worse as 5th), Baylor 1-5

NEXT UP
at Oklahoma (5-4, 3-3 Big XII)
Notes: If we lose, we basically finish 5th in the Big XII or tie for 4th. That'd probably put us 7th/8th in conference play, good enough for the Texas Bowl. We've still got a chance for something as good as the Cotton Bowl or Holiday, so we'll see what happens.

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A SURPRISING SHUTOUT

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Kyle Dickson played like a madman today, intercepting a pass (above), along with forcing & recovering a fumble.

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One of Mackey's two TDs on the day.

NORMAN, OKLAHOMA -- Oklahoma was a preseason top 10 team. Ten weeks later, they are now .500 at 5-5 after a suprising shutout by Tulane on the road, 24-0. Oklahoma kept Tulane out of the endzone mainly, but Tulane kept the ball away from Oklahoma ending every single one of their drives with a punt or turnover. Oklahoma never got anything going and Tulane capitalized on three turnovers and scored off of those turnovers. Oklahoma only went 5-11 on third downs while Tulane went 9-11 (punt, FG other two times), but also had two turnovers themselves both in the redzone. However it didn't hurt them as Oklahoma couldn't get anything done with those as they punted on both of those ensuing drives.

The first quarter had no scoring but Kyle Dickson did get an INT and in the second Tulane took control of the game. Burns hit Taylor Mackey for a 37 yard TD where Mackey broke away from the OU defender at the ten-yard line and walked into the endzone for the game's first score. On the ensuing kickoff, Lamont Coleman rips the ball away from the return man, and recovers it inside the 20. Two plays later, Jamal Burns hits Brandon Palmer for a 10 yard TD pass and makes it 14-0 in just about 20 seconds. Ubekista then added a 23 yard field goal before halftime to make it 17-0 Tulane at the break.

In the second half, things didn't change as Jamal Burns hit Taylor Mackey for a 7 yard TD on Tulane's opening second half drive to make it 24-0. Oklahoma had their best drive of the day after that TD until Kyle Dickson ripped the ball from RB Ellis of Oklahoma in the backfield and took it away too and Tulane forced another turnover. Tulane would eat up alot of the clock converting 4 3rd downs on this drive, but would come up empty handed as Jamal Burns was picked off on 2nd & Goal saving a TD or a FG. Oklahoma got 21 yards on their first play but then threw 3 incompletions as their QB Wilson had a rough day (6/18 passing), and they punted. Tulane then ate the final 90 seconds and won it 24-0.

PLAYER STATS
Jamal Burns: 15-for-21 passing, 177 yards, 3 TD, INT, 21 rush yards
O.J. Clarke: 20 carries, 97 yards, 14 rec yards
J.D. Williams: 4 rec, 70 yards
Brandon Palmer: 3 rec, 32 yards, TD
Taylor Mackey: 2 rec, 44 yards, 2 TD
Kyle Dickson: 2 tackles, INT, FF, FR
Jason Nolen: 4 tackles, TFL
Lamont Coleman: FF, FR
Ubekista: 1-1 FG, 3-3 XP, 47 yard/punt

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WEEK 11

BIG XII SCORES
Texas A&M 30, #17 Nebraska 25
Oklahoma State 35, Baylor 13
Iowa State 17, Colorado 14 (What??)
Kansas 28, Missouri 24
K-State 37, #4 Texas 30 (Still too late for them to win the North)

North: Kansas State if Nebraska beats Colorado and they beat Kansas, if Colorado wins, Colorado goes on.
South: A&M/Texas winner

TOP 25 UPDATE
Buffalo beats Kent State, jump to #10 in Coaches poll, and get 3 1st-place votes, in position for BCS bid at #11 in the BCS.
Cincinnati upsets #2 West Virginia, Georgia to #2, WVU falls to #14.

BCS TOP 10: 1. Ohio State, 2. UGA, 3. Bama, 4. Iowa, 5. USC, 6. Rutgers, 7. Virginia Tech, 8. Penn St., 9. Michigan, 10. Texas, 11. Buffalo, 19. Tulane (16 coaches), 21. K-State, 23. Okie St.

UP NEXT: vs #24/23 Oklahoma State (6-4, 4-3 Big XII)
- This is the battle for 3rd in the South, whoever wins gets 3rd, the loser takes 4th. The winner also probably finishes 5th in conference.

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FINAL SECOND HEROICS

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- Just like our game against Texas at home, there were last second heroics in this game too, and once again the result did not favor the Green Wave. The Cowboys came in as underdogs and the #24 team in the country and they knocked off the #16 Green Wave for the battle for 5-3 in conference play, most likely Oklahoma State will finish 5th and Tulane 6th in the Big XII, and yet these are still top 25 teams. Oklahoma State QB Trevor Cummings tore up the Green Wave for 3 TDs how ever it was Michael Pruitt, RB for the Cowboys who stole the show with his 4 yard TD run with 20 seconds to go to seal the 34-27 win for the Cowboys in the Superdome.

Cummings started out the game for Oklahoma State with a 14 yard TD pass to Lane, to give the 'Boys a 7-0 lead. Ubekista's 33 yard FG cut the game to 7-3. Jamal Burns also threw an INT in this quarter of (not so much) action, Erik Madison also got an INT. The Green Wave took a 10-7 lead on Jamal Burns' 35 yard TD pass to Taylor Mackey, but the Cowboys tied it up with a 32 yard field goal just before halftime to give the game a low-scoring 10-10 halftime score.

Ubeksita opened up the second half with a 41 yard FG to give Tulane a little 13-10 lead. Cummings got his second TD pass to Smith, an 18 yard TD, where Smith broke away from Wade Brooks' tackle at the five and ran into the endzone on the nice catch & run. That gave the Cowboys a 17-13 lead. Tulane took the lead back on J.D. Williams' 4 yard TD run on a WR sweep, where Williams actually went untouched into the endzone, giving the Green Wave a 20-17 lead after three quarters. Oklahoma State's early field goal in the fourth tied it at 20 from 42 yards out. Then after Burns throws his second INT, that set up Cummings' 7 yard TD pass to Cliff Newberry, and that gave Oklahoma State a 27-20 lead. O.J. Clarke put the game back at a tie with 2 minutes and four seconds to play with his 48 yard TD run, a bit earlier than we expected, but he tied it at 27. Then came then drive, just like Texas, they passed down the field, cutting inside the clock. Eventually the Cowboys got to 2nd & Goal at the 4, and Pruitt took the handoff and went into the endzone up the gut with 21 seconds to play giving Oklahoma State a 34-27 lead. The Green Wave could not accomplish anything with the remaining 13 seconds after the return, and the Cowboys won it 34-27.

PLAYER STATS
Jamal Burns: 23-for-43 pass, 246 yards, TD, 2 INT, 23 rush yards
O.J. Clarke: 15 carries, 107 yards, TD, 2 rec, 11 yards
Brandon Palmer: 9 rec, 84 yards
Taylor Mackey: 5 rec, 111 yards, TD
Dustin Peterson: 8 tackles, 3 TFL, Sack
Ralph Hall: 7 tackles, 2 TFL, Sack
Jason Nolen: 6 tackles, 2 TFL, Sack
Erik Madison: 5 tackles, INT
Stephen Harris: 5 tackles, 2 TFL, Sack
Derek Larson: 5 tackles, 2 TFL, Sack
Abraham Ubekista: 2-2 FG, 3-3 XP

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WEEK 12 & 13

BIG XII SCORES - WEEK 12
A&M 33, Syracuse 7 (0-10)
Oklahoma 27, Baylor 7
Nebraska 28, Army 27 (Army led 27-11 after 3 quarters, but they are still 6-4)
Kansas 20, #21 Kansas State 17 OT (So much for K-State in the Big XII Championship)
Missouri 30, Iowa State 27 OT (Iowa State not going bowling at 5-7)

TOP 25 UPDATE - WEEK 12
Buffalo, Ohio State still undefeated - Buffalo up to #8 in Coaches, #10 in BCS.
Ohio State, Iowa could meet in BCS National Title game, for a rematch.. the Hawkeyes are #3 behind Georgia.
We fell out of the BCS rankings, but we're still alive at #25 in the Coaches (who had us overrated).
A&M rejoins the top 25.
Marshall, Idaho on the outside looking in.

BOWL PROJECTION: Texas Bowl: Texas Tech vs Tulane ..oh the irony.
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BIG XII SCORES - WEEK 13
North Title Game: Colorado 38, Nebraska 19
South Title Game: #11 Texas 16, #24 A&M 7
NC State 34, Kansas 31 OT
Baylor 44, McNeese St. 16

TOP 25 UPDATE - WEEK 13
#9 Michigan upsets #1 Ohio State, 20-17, but the Buckeyes still win the Big Ten.
Minnesota upsets #3 Iowa 16-14
Cincinnati upsets #5 Rutgers 17-10

BCS Confusion: 1. Georgia, 2. Alabama, 3. USC, 4. Michigan (with 3 losses), 5. Ohio State, 6. VT, 7. Penn State, 8. Buffalo (only undefeated, they get #2 Alabama at home this week - this game could decide the national title game, who woulda thought that?? If Buffalo wins, do they go to #2???), 22. Tulane (#21 Coaches).

BOWL PROJECTION: PetroSun Independence Bowl vs Boise State

UP NEXT: LSU [Tulane finally won it last year!].. LSU is 6-5, all of their losses are by less than 10 points. They lost to Auburn who we beat. They are just rating-wise better than us, and it's a rivalry game so it's gonna be a tough one.

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SLOPPY OFFENSES LEADS TO DEFENSIVE-STYLE SHOWDOWN

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- The Tiger Rag will be staying in the Big Easy, New Orleans as Tulane won a very sloppy offensive but defensive battle game over the 6-5 LSU Tigers. While neither team has a great record (Tulane 8-4, LSU now 6-6), this game was ruled by defense and turnovers and lots of sacks. Jamal Burns hit the ground 5 times, while Trevor Montoya got it twice. The teams combined to go just 7-23 on 3rd downs, but went 5-7 on 4th. There were 7 turnovers in this game (4 INT, 3 Fumbles) combined, and when it was all said and done, Tulane held up the Tiger Rag with a 22-17 win over the Tigers of LSU, two straight victories.

The first quarter started with a 53 yard field goal missed by LSU. Two plays later, Jamal Burns is picked off. LSU's response was a 1-yard TD run by Johnson. The Green Wave started well with a 30 yard pass to Chad Flowers, than a 6 yard gain, then a 9 yard gain, then 11 more, only to stall and have Ubekista boot a 26 yard field goal to cut the lead to 7-3. LSU took over and their drive ended on fourth down taking the game into the second quarter. Two plays later, Jamal Burns gets picked off.. again. LSU makes a 45 yard field goal to make it 10-3. Once again the Green Wave struggle and turn the ball over again, this time on a Marquardt fumble. However, the very next play Erik Madison gets INT #7 (or is it #8) on the year on Montoya.

However, the turnover party didn't stop there as six plays later, Jamal Burns coughs up the ball and LSU recovers. However, Marlin Nelson rips the ball from Montoya and takes it back. Burns finally finds his groove hitting J.D. Williams for a 35 yard gain and O.J. Clarke scored on a 2 yard run tying it at 10, and that would be the halftime score. The third quarter started with a Ubekista 45 yard field goal, LSU continues to be sloppy as Wade Brooks intercepts Trevor Montoya. However, Tulane goes four and out near mid-field on a risky call. But LSU goes three and out. And that was the third.

In the fourth, Jamal Burns takes control of the game with a 8 yard TD pass to Brandon Palmer, and Tulane goes up 19-10 because LSU blocks the extra point. However, LSU has to punt on their next drive. The Green Wave eat the clock a bit and Ubekista hits a 50 yard field goal to make it 22-10. LSU had two minutes to get back in the game and they moved quickly as Montoya hit Henry for a 5 yard TD pass with 57 seconds to play, cutting the lead to 22-17. Now for the onside kick..

..and J.D. Williams recovered it. And Tulane was victorious. 22-17 over LSU.

PLAYER STATS
Jamal Burns: 21-for-30 passing, 322 yards, TD, 2 INT, -41 rush yards on sacks
O.J. Clarke: 16 carries, 76 yards, TD, rec, 14 yards
Chad Flowers: 8 rec, 95 yards
Brandon Palmer: 6 rec, 107 yards, TD
J.D. Williams: 4 rec, 92 yards
Jason Nolen: 8 tackles, TFL
Marlin Nelson: 5 tackles, 2 TFL, FF, FR
Wade Brooks: 2 tackles, INT
Derek Larson: Sack
Erik Madison: Tackle, INT
Ubekista: 3-3 FG, 1-1 XP, one XP blocked

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WEEK 14 TO BOWL SEASON

Kinda a quick version here.

WEEK 14 EVENTS
#2 Alabama beats #7 Buffalo 35-27.. Bulls put up a good fight.
Alabama jumps to #1, Georgia to 2, USC to 3 (well, they're going BCS NC bowling).
The Bulls drop only one spot in Coaches + AP, but drop 4 spots to #12 in the BCS. What??
We move up to #18.
Florida State, Rutgers, UCLA, Cincinnati all fall out.
Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and UCF in the top 25.
Heisman looks to be headed Jack Robinson, tOSU WR's way. 1483 rec yards, 14 TD.

WEEK 15 EVENTS
Idaho joins the top 25.. only to lose to Illinois 24-13
Navy 10, Army 3
Useless week.

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
MAC: The "Who Dat" CCG: #10 Buffalo 45, Eastern Kentucky 32 (EKU went 9-3)
BIG XII: Colorado 25, #8 Texas 15
C-USA: Texas Tech 49, #24 UCF 17
ACC: #4 Virginia Tech 23, #25 Florida St. 3
SEC: #1 Alabama 35, #2 Georgia 21

HEISMAN WINNER: Jack Robinson, WR, Ohio State / 95 rec, 1483 yards, 14 TD

Home Field Advantage: Tulane to PetroSun Independence Bowl vs Louisville

The Cardinals are 7-5. Woohoo, Louisiana.

Ubekista wins Groza

Woop.

BCS BOWLS:
Rose: Ohio State vs Georgia
Sugar: Michigan vs Miami
Orange: Virginia Tech vs West Virginia
Fiesta: Colorado vs Buffalo (yeah!! Bust that BCS, Bulls).. err Go Big XII?
BCS NC: USC vs Alabama

UP NEXT: The PetroSun Independence Bowl .. The 'Ville is B OVR, B- OFF, B+ DEF.

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The NCAA '10 version of this dynasty ends in Shreveport

ID NOTE: This is it. The final game on NCAA '10. Our first game. Six long seasons ago. A 28-21 loss to Tulsa. Darryl Farley made the Dynasty's first big play. Andre Anderson was our runningback. The man by the name of Kevin Moore was throwing the ball. Jeremy Williams caught like a crazy man. Then it was Robottom. Then it was Banks. Then it was Van Hooser. Six seasons. Crazy plays. Crazy sim engine results. 3-0 USC/Cal game. FIU upset Florida. Buffalo is in a BCS game.. against the Buffaloes. 3 non-BCS teams in BCS bowls, and they all lost. A deflection at the goal line to upset Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl. The Tiger Rag. D.J. Banks grabs one off his own helmet to keep us alive at Hawaii. Wide Right I. Wide Right II. Fourth and Eight I. Fourth and Eight II. Three and Four Overtime Games. Upsetting big teams, being upset by the lowest of lows, an eventual 2-win team knocked us off two seasons ago. The highs, and the lows. The 2013 National Championship, and then a 8-win season to follow it up. I've got to thank all of you for reading, over 25,000 views and some great reader interaction. Hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have. And now in the dynasty's 82nd game, I've loved every second of it. Here we go for some more fun in NCAA '11. But first, here is the PetroSun Independence Bowl against The 'Ville.

SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA -- And there we are. A home game for our first Big XII bowl bid. Louisiana. The Green Wave came out pumped while the Cardinals never got in the way of the Green Wave. The Cardinals at 7-5 overall come in with no wins against top 25 teams. The Green Wave hope with a win to finish in the top 15. Jamal Burns took the start for the Green Wave, and didn't disappoint yet again showing signs of promise for 2015. Burns started out quick with a 27 yard TD pass to J.D. Williams, who looks to be Tulane's no. 1 WR next year. Then he hit Chad Flowers for a 4 yard TD, who is also returning next year, to give the Green Wave a 14-0 1st quarter lead.

Louisville got on the board with a 26 yard field goal, but Burns' 3rd TD to Brandon Palmer gave the Green Wave a dominating 21-3 lead. The 'Ville closed the gap with a 1 yard TD pass just before halftime to make it 21-10. However, the Green Wave put the game away somewhat with O.J. Clarke's 3 yard TD run to put them up 28-10. After Kyle Dickson gets a fumble recovery, that set up John Stegall's 12 yard TD pass to Taylor Mackey with Jamal Burns on the sidelines as Tulane started to pick away starters with a now 35-10 lead.

The Cardinals cut the lead down to 35-23 with a pair of TDs (John Stegall had a strange INT in between, he was sacked and the ball flopped out of his hands to a Louisville LB), but they failed to recover either onside kick, and Tulane capped off the game with Mike Marquardt's 3 yard TD run on third and goal after John Stegall's impressive 15 yard gain the play before where he broke 3 tackles and drug two defenders from the five to the two-yard line and made it first and goal. The Cardinals could not do anything in the final 30 seconds and Tulane won the Independence Bowl 42-23.

PLAYER STATS
Jamal Burns: 18-for-26 passing, 249 yards, 3 TD, 1 rush yard
John Stegall: 5-for-6 passing, 46 yards, TD, INT
O.J. Clarke: 14 carries, 48 yards, TD, 2 rec, 31 yards
Mike Marquardt: TD rush
J.D. Williams: 6 rec., 73 yards, TD
Chad Flowers: 5 rec, 55 yards, TD
Taylor Mackey: 3 rec, 65 yards, TD
Brandon Palmer: 3 rec, 36 yards, TD (SR)
Anthony Patterson: Pancake, SA (2nd of the year, SR)
Jason Nolen: 8 tackles (SR)
Scott Barrett: 6 tackles, INT
Stephen Harris: 6 tackles, TFL, Sack
Derek Larson: 4 tackles, 2 TFL, Sack
Marlin Nelson: 3 tackles, 2 TFL
Kyle Dickson: 3 tackles, FF, FR (SR)
Ubekista: 6-6 XP, 46.6 yards a punt

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2014 WRAP-UP

BOWL GAMES OF NOTE
New Mexico: Idaho 31, Air Force 24 (Idaho: 10 wins)
EagleBank: Army 16, Troy 12
Las Vegas: AZ State 27, Utah 9 (Utah loses 3 of their last 5)
Hawai'i: Marshall 31, #24 Nevada 17
Motor City: Miami OH 20, Rutgers 17 (Rutgers loses 3 straight)
GMAC: Eastern Kentucky 27, UCF 24 (Colonels have big confidence headed for '15)

Rose: #6 Georgia 38, #3 Ohio State 28
Sugar: #5 Michigan 21, Miami 17
Orange: #4 Virginia Tech 25, #8 West Virginia 7
Fiesta: #11 Buffalo 27, #22 Colorado 26.. YES!! BUFFALO BUSTS THE BCS!! Are you kidding me??
BCS NC: #2 USC 27, #1 Alabama 24 OT

FINAL TOP 25
1. USC (61)
2. Virginia Tech
3. Michigan
4. Georgia
5. Alabama
6. Buffalo (yeah!!! Buffalo!!) [I'll probably make them better for '11, they only lose six starters]
7. Ohio State
8. West Virginia
9. Notre Dame
10. Texas
11. Oklahoma State
12. Penn State
13. Tulane
14. Miami
15. USF
16. North Carolina
17. Iowa
18. South Carolina
19. Utah
20. Florida
21. Wisconsin
22. Colorado
23. Cal
24. Idaho
25. Arizona State

AAs and All-Big XIIs
1st team AA: Erik Madison, Abraham Ubekista
2nd team AA: Marlin Nelson
Freshman AA: Shaun Fontaine (RET)
1st team Big XII: O.J. Clarke, Marlin Nelson, Erik Madison, Abraham Ubekista
2nd team Big XII: Shaun Fontaine (RET)

UP NEXT: Players Leaving and such.

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PLAYERS LEAVING

83 OVR QB John Stegall, SO, transferring: to Hawaii .. Stegall started earlier in the year before an injury put him on the sidelines and Burns took over the Green Wave team.

GRADUATING

86 OVR RB #10 Dan Thomas, rSR
Best year: 2011 - 48 car, 293 yards, 6 TD
Notes: Was the 70th man on the roster in 2011 only to show us what he was made of and run for 6.1 yards a carry. Thomas was third on the depth chart most of his career and never got out of that spot. A valuable backup when needed.

87 OVR RG #60 Jeff Keyes - rSR
Best year: 2013 - 9 cakes, 2 SA
Notes: Two-year starter on the o-line and was a very good blocker.

87 ovr RT #64 Chris WHite - rSR
Best year: 2014 - 15 pancakes, 5 SA
Notes: One-year starter after being moved around as a backup over the line, eventually landing as starting RT. Was a good blocker for the year we needed him most.

88 OVR WR #2 Brandon Palmer - rSR
Best year: 2014 - 64 rec, 827 yards, 6 TD
Notes: The JUCO transfer played very fine in his two years at Tulane winding up with almost 100 career receptions, 1332 yards, 11 TDs along with 37 rush yards. He had great hands and the ability to make plays after the catch.

89 OVR LG #63 Michael Landry - SR
Best year: None, really, they were all basically the same.
Notes: Three-year starter who gave up more sacks than he should have but was still solid.

89 OVR ROLB #55 Jason Nolen - SR
Best year: 2014 - 59 tkl, 9 TFL, 3 sacks, INT, 4 PD, FF
Notes: Two-and-a-half year starter who had two 50+ tackle seasons to end his career as a Green Wave. Came in for the injured Darryl Farley as a freshman and did well ever since. Ends with 7 INTs and 3 sacks, too.

94 OVR LOLB #45 Kyle Dickson - rSR
Best year: 2014 - 49 tackles, 3 TFL, INT, 2 FF, 2 FR
Notes: JUCO transfer who started for two years and winds up one tackle short of 100. Very good player who got his hands on the ball forcing three turnovers over just one last year. Very solid and quick LB.

99 OVR C #70 Anthony Patterson - rSR
Best year: 2014 - 20 'cakes, 1 SA (I lied, his Ville sack was his first allowed of the year. So close.)
Notes: This man just didn't allow anyone past him. Our first 99 OVR player and as a four-year starter, he knew what he was doing as an offensive leader. Blocked extremely well on the pass and the run. Over 70 career pancakes to just 9 sacks allowed. Great player, 1st round draft pick for sure.

And that's it.. a small class of players we lose. Now for a little break, as the next thing you'll see is NCAA '11 stuff.

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Season one: Game-sealing TFL in 45-42 win over SMU

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Season one: Tyler Helm got tackled at the one-yard line with no timeouts left trying to tie the game, and Joe Kemp was stopped short as time expired

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Season one: Chinoso picks up a late fumble sealing an upset over UCF.

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Season two: D.J. Banks' miracle in Hawai'i.

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Season two: Casey Robottom rips the ball out of the air to win it in 3OTs.

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Season two: David Phillips seals Tulane's first C-USA title under Ron Draggo at the three-yard line in the game's second OT.

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Season three: Kristifer Rhymes deflects the final pass in the Orange Bowl at the two-yard line as time expired

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Season four:D.J. Banks' game-continuing pass flew away on the hit and that kept the Green Wave from possibly upsetting Ohio State again.

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Season four: Casey Robottom's last-gasp tipped-reception against LSU was tackled three yards short with the clock reading 0:00.

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Season five: O.J. Clarke says "Ohhhh yeahhhh" as he dives for the endzone.

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Season five: If this fumble was never recovered, we would have never been national champions.

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Season five: IT'S GOOD!! NATIONAL CHAMPS!! And the celebrating began.

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Season six: All Tulane could do is watch A&M knock off the Green Wave on their 18-game winning streak on this field goal by a man by the name of Pedro.

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Season six: Scott Barrett ends the 4OT decable with Missouri with a huge TFL.

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Season six: O.J. Clarke leaps over a Texas defender.

Goodbye NCAA '10.

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Your game reports and photos are fantastic! Keep up the great work; can't wait to see what happens in NCAA '11.

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New alternate unis

[morsdraconis]

Nice!

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2015 NCAA Preview

2014 FINAL TOP 25
1. USC
2. Virginia Tech
3. Michigan
4. Georgia
5. Alabama
6. Buffalo
7. Ohio State
8. West Virginia
9. Notre Dame
10. Texas
11. Oklahoma State
12. Penn State
13. Tulane
14. Miami
15. USF
16. North Carolina
17. Iowa
18. South Carolina
19. Utah
20. Florida
21. Wisconsin
22. Colorado
23. Cal
24. Idaho
25. Arizona State


And now we look at this year's preseason top 25:
(final top 25 rank - '14)
1. Alabama (#5)
2. Ohio State (#7)
3. Texas (#10)
4. Oregon (NR)
5. Boise State (NR)
6. Florida (#20)
7. Virginia Tech (#2)
8. TCU (NR) (Big XII)
9. Nebraska (NR) (Big Ten)
10. Iowa (#17)
11. Wisconsin (#21)
12. Georgia Tech (NR)
13. USC (#1)
14. Miami (#14)
15. Oklahoma (NR)
16. PITT (NR)
17. LSU (NR)
18. Penn State (#12)
19. Oregon State (NR)
20. Arkansas (NR)
21. Florida State (NR)
22. North Carolina (#16)
23. Utah (#19) (Big XII)
24. Cincinnati (NR)
25. Houston (NR)
29. Oklahoma St.
33. Missouri
42. Texas Tech (C-USA)
45. Baylor
49. Kansas
59. Iowa State
60. Tulane
68. Kansas State
119. WKU
120. Eastern Michigan

BIG XII OUTLOOK
1. Texas
2. TCU
3. Oklahoma
4. Utah
5. Okie St
6. Mizzou
7. Baylor
8. Kansas
9. A&M
10. Iowa St.
11. Tulane (remember, Colorado won the conference from a #10 rank last year)
12. K-State

HEISMAN WATCH
RB Greg Mathis, Alabama, JR
QB Joe Reed, Houston, SR
QB Kendrick Davidson, Boise State, JR
QB Dustin Brown, Ohio State, JR
QB Paul Marshall, Washington, SR

UP NEXT: 2015 SCHEDULE

[Iron Dragon]

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2015 SCHEDULE

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- Tulane has released their 2015 football schedule today. Despite earlier thoughts, Tulane's 2014 Big XII schedule doesn't mirror their 2015 schedule due to a change made by the Big XII which would have made Tulane play the exact home/away games as last year, which would have been a disappointment for the Green Wave getting the same schedule two years in a row. Tulane's schedule features a matchup on November 20th as they face former C-USA opponent in Houston, who rounds out the preseason top 25.

Tulane has five first-time matchups on the schedule: Colorado St., Ohio, Kansas, Kansas State, and #8 TCU.

2015 SCHEDULE
WEEK 1 - Colorado State - C+ OVR, B- OFF, C+ DEF
WEEK 2 - BYE
WEEK 3 - Ohio - C- OVR, C OFF, C- DEF (Throwback Day)
WEEK 4 - at #17 LSU - A- across the board
WEEK 5 - Kansas - B- across the board
WEEK 6 - Baylor - B- OVR, B OFF, C+ DEF
WEEK 7 - at #8 TCU - B+ OVR, A OFF, B+ DEF
WEEK 8 - Kansas State - B- across the board
WEEK 9 - at #3 Texas - A- OVR, A OFF, A- DEF
WEEK 10 - at Oklahoma State - B+ OVR, A- OFF, B+ DEF
WEEK 11 - Texas A&M - B+ OVR, A- OFF, B DEF
WEEK 12 - Oklahoma - A OVR, A OFF, A- DEF
WEEK 13 - at #25 Houston - B- OVR, B+ OFF, C+ DEF
WEEK 14 - BYE
WEEK 15 - BYE
CCG - ??
BOWL - Likely

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2015 ROSTER

NOTE: Redshirts have been messed up through TeamBuilder.. so yeah. Ratings are also different with the whole locomotion thing.

OFFENSE

QB #5 Jamal Burns - JR - 82 OVR, 80 SPD, 88 THP, 80 THA
QB #17 Rich Nelson - rFR - 74 OVR, 88 SPD, 78 ACC, 84 THP, 78 THA
QB #12 Joe Brett - FR - 72 OVR, 83 THP, 85 THA

RB #25 O.J. Clarke - SR - 95 OVR, 93 SPD, 96 ACC, 92 BTK
RB #37 Mike Marquardt - JR - 84 OVR, 86 SPD, 89 ACC, 88 BTK
RB #24 Chuck Graham - rFR - 77 OVR, 87 SPD, 85 ACC, 89 ELU
RB #40 Matt Redd - rFR - 74 OVR, 84 SPD, 90 ACC, 88 ARM
FB #28 Blake Walters - JR - 80 OVR, 79 SPD, 76 ACC
FB #42 Tyler Rollins - SO - 71 OVR, 75 SPD, 76 ACC, 77 CTH

WR #7 J.D. Williams - JR - 81 OVR, 85 SPD, 90 ACC, 85 RR
WR #84 Taylor Mackey - JR - 81 OVR, 85 SPD, 87 ACC, 85 CIT
WR #88 Adrian Anderson - JR - 78 OVR, 80 SPD, 91 ACC, 82 CTH
WR #8 DeShawn Larsen - rFR - 78 OVR, 87 SPD, 78 RR, 78 CIT
WR #4 Rick Nixon - FR - 74 OVR, 91 SPD, 92 ACC, 72 CIT
WR #86 Viktor Harris - rSO - 71 OVR, 86 SPD
WR #82 David Tyler - rSO - 70 OVR, 71 RR

TE #83 Chad Flowers - rJR - 84 OVR, 78 SPD, 86 ACC, 83 CTH
TE #85 Brian Bailey - SO - 80 OVR, 81 SPD, 78 ACC, 81 CTH
TE #47 Vernon Blair - rSO - 79 OVR, 79 SPD, 83 ACC, 77 CTH

LT #78 Brandon Lewis - rJR - 86 OVR
LT #75 Reggie Ross - rSR - 80 OVR
LT #60 Stephen James - rFR - 74 OVR
LG #61 Derrik Wright - rFR - 76 OVR
LG #72 Kenneth Woods - rFR - 73 OVR
C #65 Ron Daniels - rSR - 85 OVR
C #67 Joel Ferwerda - rSO - 78 OVR
RG #68 Scott Rogers - rJR - 82 OVR
RG #79 Nick Butler - rSO - 80 OVR (starting at LG)
RG #63 Vance Danderson - FR - 72 OVR
RT #62 John Williams - rSR - 87 OVR
RT #76 Rocky Van Hoskgad - rFR - 74 OVR

DEFENSE

LE #95 Dwayne Horne - SR - 83 OVR, 82 SPD, 85 ACC, 81 TKL
LE #93 Dustin Peterson - rJR - 80 OVR, 77 SPD, 84 TKL
RE #66 Stephen Harris - SR - 82 OVR, 74 SPD, 89 TKL
RE #91 Glen Wilkinson - SO - 78 OVR, 83 SPD

DT #71 Marlin Nelson - JR - 92 OVR, 85 SPD, 82 ACC, 89 TKL (now bulked up from 235 to 260)
DT #58 Derek Larson - SR - 89 OVR, 90 SPD, 77 ACC, 89 TKL
DT #90 Melvin Dickson - rJR - 85 OVR, 78 SPD, 85 TKL
DT #96 Jared McCoy - rJR - 78 OVR, 74 SPD
DT #77 Charlie St. Helens - rFR - 75 OVR, 59 SPD, 82 ACC, 82 TKL

LOLB #51 Jay Kerr - SR - 83 OVR, 83 SPD, 78 AWR
LOLB #94 Matt West - rSO - 76 OVR, 86 BSH
LOLB #92 Aaron Talley - rFR - 71 OVR, 78 TKL
MLB #50 Terrance Carr - SR - 94 OVR, 84 SPD, 88 ACC, 91 TKL
MLB #59 Ralph Hall - rSR - 84 OVR, 72 SPD, 85 ACC
MLB #54 Brandon Lewis - rJR - 80 OVR, 76 SPD, 85 PUR
MLB #53 Garrett Jones - rSO - 74 OVR, 88 SPD, 82 TKL
ROLB #57 Frank Davis - rSO - 84 OVR, 83 SPD, 88 PRC
ROLB #56 Lamont Coleman - rSR - 81 OVR, 84 SPD, 90 BSH
ROLB #97 Bruce Meade - SO - 75 OVR, 82 SPD

DB #6 Erik Madison - SR - 92 OVR, 87 SPD, 96 ACC, 98 MCV, 99 ZCV, 90 PRC
DB #11 Shaun Fontaine - SO - 85 OVR, 96 SPD, 94 ACC
DB #39 Wade Brooks - JR - 82 OVR, 87 SPD, 95 MCV
DB #20 Corey Bratton - JR - 80 OVR, 87 SPD, 94 ACC, 95 MCV
DB #35 Keenan Tate - SR - 79 OVR, 85 SPD, 90 MCV
DB #23 Kendall Thomas - rFR - 76 OVR, 90 SPD, 72 AWR
DB #18 Xavier Brooks - FR - 74 OVR, 93 SPD, 83 ZCV

FS #48 Kasey Capps - rJR - 83 OVR, 83 SPD, 95 ACC, 90 ZCV
FS #32 Jason Cleveland - rFR - 76 OVR, 93 ACC, 85 MCV
FS #29 Keith Franklin - rFR - 73 OVR
FS #33 Alphonso Lamb - rFR - 71 OVR

SS #30 Scott Barrett - SR - 85 OVR, 92 SPD, 85 ACC, 89 ZCV
SS #36 Brad Chase - SO - 79 OVR, 85 SPD
SS #21 Jamaal Archer - rFR - 77 OVR, 90 SPD, 79 ACC
SS #2 Jordan Katz - FR - 74 OVR, 82 SPD, 95 ACC

K/P #19 Abraham Ubekista - SR - 87 OVR, 90 KPW, 86 KAC
K/P #44 Regular Gonzalez - rFR - 79 OVR, 83 KPW, 78 KAC

And there you have it..

UP NEXT: Games!

[morsdraconis]

NOTE: Redshirts have been messed up through TeamBuilder.. so yeah. Ratings are also different with the whole locomotion thing.

Yeah. I had to deal with that as well with mine. It sucks, but it's not the end of the world.

Also it's interesting to see how different some people come out rated this year to last year. Had a QB that was 5 or 6 points ahead of my 2nd string QB because he was pretty fast, had pretty good awareness, and decent passing abilities. Put him in teambuilder for '11, and he dropped like 7 points and is no longer the 1st string QB. Apparently Awareness doesn't play as big of a role in player overall as it used to.

[ebin]

NOTE: Redshirts have been messed up through TeamBuilder.


Yeah. I had to deal with that as well with mine. It sucks, but it's not the end of the world.

That was an issue last year as well. I can't for the life of me figure out why they don't just let us edit redshirt status on the Teambuilder site. :(

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BAD 2 & 3/4 QUARTERS, A GOOD 1 & 1/4 QUARTERS

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Erik Madison starts off 2015 the same place he ended in 2014.. intercepting passes.

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The first score of 2015 was Ralph Hall's safety on CSU RB Keyes.

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DeShawn Larsen, the newest man to wear #8 catches his first TD pass on his first reception.. a good start.

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- The last time the Green Wave took the field, they beat Louisville in the Indepedence Bowl. Over the summer, the Superdome got looking a little different and so did the lighting, but now Green Wave football is back, and is it better than ever before? And yes, this is the new reporting style, the same one as 2014 but look - three pictures!! And this year, we'll have highlights when they are cool enough to be on video. Anyways, the Colorado State Rams would take the field against the Green Wave led by their white runningback David Keyes, who wears #7 and is like Toby Gerhart.. but who is that? Since he was sucky on the original rosters in NCAA '10, Gerhart didn't have a runner-up Heisman year in 2009 like he did in the actual world.

On to the action..

Colorado State got the ball first and Billy Walker, QB for the Rams fired a great pass straight to Shaun Fontaine to bring in the new year (and game year - NCAA '10 started with an INT, too, what will '12 be like? another INT??), however, Jamal Burns takes Tulane inside the ten and throws a pick in the endzone, which was stupidly returned out to two-yard line by the Colorado State defender. He was six yards deep in the endzone. Why would you ever bring it out? Anyways, he cost his Rams as the Rams ran a screen pass.. in the endzone.. and Jeff Keyes was dropped by Ralph Hall for a safety, giving Tulane a 2-0 lead. Tulane reaped the rewards of a shorter field but stalled late in the drive as Ubekista nailed a 34 yard field goal, giving Tulane a 5-0 lead. Jamal Burns, obviously still rattled from pick #1 was intercepted again in the early 2nd quarter, but CSU couldn't do anything with the ball. Finally Burns found his late season rhythm from last year hitting a wide open Taylor Mackey for a 60 yard TD pass mid-way through the second quarter.

Ron Draggo was tempted to go for two here, no clue why, but an 11-0 lead sounded interesting if we didn't get it. But we did kick the XP and made it 12-0. After Colorado State fumbled the ball away, Tulane tried to put up more points before halftime and got into field goal range for a 42 yard kick with 2 seconds left in the half. Ubekista's field goal had the distance but it nailed the right upright and bounced into the endzone and it was no good and Tulane took a 12-0 lead to the locker room.

After going three and out, Colorado State took advantage getting a field goal to make 12-3.. an uncomfortable lead for the Green Wave. Burns got more rhythm with his 17 yard TD pass to DeShawn Larsen one minute later, but Tulane went for 2 to make it a 17-point game and the read option was stuffed keeping the score at 18-3. Tulane ran away with the game literally, in the fourth quarter, as O.J. Clarke's 4 yard TD run and Mike Marquardt's 3 yard TD run made it a 32-3 game. Colorado State scored on a 4 yard TD run late, and missed the two point conversion, and then failed to recover an onside kick. Other Colorado State highlights included an INT to Erik Madison and even CSU's backup QB got in on the pick-love throwing one to Terrance Carr. Lastly, Rich Nelson took late snaps for Tulane at QB, as well as the Green Wave won it 32-9 after only leading it 12-3 with 1:30 to play in the third quarter.

PLAYER STATS
Jamal Burns: 10-for-19 passing, 146 yards, 2 TD, 2 INT, 6 car, 14 yards
O.J. Clarke: 21 carries, 104 yards, TD, 3 rec, 14 yards
Mike Marquardt: 5 carries, 20 yards, TD
DeShawn Larsen: 3 rec, 42 yards, TD
Taylor Mackey: Rec, 60 yards, TD
Frank Davis: 7 Tot Tack (4 solo, 3 ast), FF, FR
Derek Larson: 4 tackles, 3 TFL, Sack
Stephen Harris: 3 TFL, Sack
Jay Kerr: 5 Tot Tack (2 solo, 3 ast)
Marlin Nelson: 3 Tot Tack, TFL
Shaun Fontaine, Terrance Carr, Erik Madison: INT each

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WEEK 1 AROUND THE NCAA

BIG XII SCORES
Iowa State 37, Eastern Kentucky 14
#3 Texas 44, Rice 10
#23 Utah 69, Western Kentucky 3
Missouri 38, Illinois 7
Texas A&M 54, SE Louisiana St. 0
UCLA 37, K-State 16
Kansas 39, Sac State 3
Oklahoma St. 29, Colorado 12
#8 TCU 52, UC Davis 10
#15 Oklahoma 44, Utah St. 7
Baylor 26, SMU 14

TOP 25/NCAA SCORES
Fresno State 31, #24 Cincinnati 24
#17 LSU 14, #22 UNC 13

TOP 25 UPDATE
Cincy, UNC out
WVU, Georgia in
Fresno up to #26

NEWS & NOTES
Mike Conley, Missouri's starting QB is out for eight weeks.
Clay Woods, USC's starting QB is out for the season.

UP NEXT: Week 2 Around the NCAA

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WEEK 2

BIG XII SCORES
#3 Texas 41, Wyoming 7
Okie St. 30, Troy 13
#22 Utah 42, Idaho 3
Missouri 56, Eastern Wash 13
#12 GT 41, Kansas 14
A&M 48, L-Tech 7
Baylor 27, New Mexico 9
K-State 45, North Dakota 10
#8 TCU 48, California 20
#15 Oklahoma 46, #21 Florida State 14
#10 Iowa 21, Iowa St. 14

TOP 25/NCAA SCORES
#1 Alabama 37, #18 Penn State 14
South Carolina 24, #25 Georgia 21
#14 Miami 21, #2 Ohio State 20
Boston College 28, #6 Florida 23
North Dakota St. 40, Akron 13 - WTG Akron.

TOP 25 UPDATE
Ohio State drops to #9, Miami only up to 11th.
Florida drops to #17.
Boston College jumps straight to #20.
Fresno State cracks the top 25 at #25.
Florida State and Georgia fall out.

UP NEXT: 1-1 Ohio

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Mr. Do It All

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O.J. Clarke on his way to a 54 yard TD run.

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And yes, he throws too, here he hits J.D. Williams for a 36 yard gain.

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Before it became the O.J. Clarke show, Ohio's fumble return TD gave them their first of two leads in the 2nd quarter

NEW ORLEANS, LA --- Tulane had their problems with Ohio for awhile in this one, that was until a man named O.J. Clarke took the game away from the Bobcats by himself, as the Green Wave's Heisman candidate's full potential and ability was on display against the Bobcats as O.J. Clarke, showing that he can do everything - pass, run and recieve - totaled up 244 yards and accounted for 3 TDs, two in crunch time to turn a close game into a blowout in the 4th quarter. With the Bobcats lurking, O.J. Clarke delivered a blow that they couldn't bounce back from.

Tulane played in their new alternate uniforms for the first time unveiling a new white helmet and green and light blue jersey which looks great in the newly redone Superdome. But we're not Oregon, so we won't be talking about uniforms for long. We care about football, not the things we wear to play it. Well, anyways, the Ohio Bobcats were in town with their 1-1 record. In the game's first quarter, Jamal Burns hit Taylor Mackey for a 24 yard TD pass. Burns also fumbled the ball away twice in this quarter, blowing up potential scoring drives and questioning his leadership.

The Bobcats could only muster up a field goal off the turnovers, to make it 7-3 in the early 2nd. However, the game took a shocking turn of events when Shaun Fontaine let loose the ensuing kickoff and the Bobcats scooped it up for six points and the little team from Athens had a 10-7 lead. Things only got worse for the Green Wave as Jamal Burns threw an INT to Ohio's star LB and Ron Draggo was disappointed in the junior QB. Three turnovers by one player in four possessions? Not good. The Bobcats, however, ended up missing a field goal keeping it at 10-7.

This is where Clarke started to show his muscle. His 6 yard TD run gave Tulane a 14-10 lead, but the Bobcats were fiesty and drove right back at the Green Wave, as Reed found Robinson for a 2 yard score, to give Ohio a 17-14 lead. That score seemed likely to be the halftime score, only if Tulane hadn't completed a Boise State-esque hook and lateral on fourth and four with 31 seconds left in the half, as Burns hit Clarke short for a 2 or 3 yard gain, only for Clarke to lateral it to Taylor Mackey, who picked up 26. Eventually that set up Taylor Mackey's 2nd TD grab of the day giving Tulane a 21-17 lead at the break.

However, the Green Wave only got a field goal in the 3rd quarter, and headed for the fourth, it was a scary 24-17. However, the Bobcats went into a 3-and-out style offense, but Ubekista's 46 yard FG made it 27-17. Still not a comfortable mark, only until O.J. Clarke broke the game open with a 54 yard TD run, then another bad drive for the Bobcats, as Clarke found J.D. Williams out of the "Wild Wave" for a 36 yard gain, setting up Mike Marquardt's jet sweep 20 yard TD - his first run of 20+ in his career. Clarke added to the fourth quarter fun with a 9 yard TD run to make it 48-17. That wasn't the final score, as Ohio actually ended up scoring on a hail mary - a 30 yard TD with one second left where everyone went to the endzone to make it 48-24, but Tulane's 31 straight was too much to overcome but yet, they still got a scare.

Jamal Burns: 11-for-21 passing, 155 yards, 2 TD, INT, 2 fumbles lost, 5 carries, 58 yards
O.J. Clarke: 1-for-1 passing, 36 yards, 21 carries, 205 yards, 3 TD, 2 rec, 3 yards
Mike Marquardt: 6 carries, 33 yards, TD
Taylor Mackey: 4 rec, 89 yards, 2 TD
Dwayne Horne: 2 sacks
Derek Larson, Marlin Nelson, Stephen Harris: Sack each

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WEEK 3

BIG XII SCORES
Kansas 14, Southern Miss 10
A&M 34, FIU 3
Oklahoma State 32, UAB 17 (UAB led 17-3 at the half)
#14 Oklahoma 41, Air Force 17 (Oklahoma 41-0 at the half)
#4 Boise State 39, Missouri 13
Washington 21, #21 Utah 10
Iowa State 23, K-State 6
#2 Texas 31, Baylor 27
#6 TCU 49, Hawai'i 3 (TCU ran the ball 66 TIMES for 430 YARDS. Holy crap.)

NCAA SCORES
Miss State 43, #16 LSU 26
UCLA 31, #22 Houston 24
#25 Fresno State 38, Utah St. 0 (Fresno State finally gets revenge on the team that has ruined their BCS party previously)
UCF 13, Buffalo 10 (OT) (Buffalo's run for back-to-back BCS bids ends here)

TOP 25 UPDATE
Top 15 unchanged.
Washington, Florida State, Okie State all in the top 25 now.
Utah getting votes.

UP NEXT: The attempt for three straight vs LSU (2-1)

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ONE-TWO-THREE


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This was an interesting play by DeShawn Larsen.

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J.D. Williams broke away from the LSU secondary on a TD catch.
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Jamal Burns ties the game with his 12 yard TD run in the 4th.
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Dwayne Horne's game-saving tackle on fourth & four gave Tulane three straight against LSU

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- Ever since LSU won the national title three years ago, they've struggled to even have winning seasons. There is probably no doubt that the 2012 version of LSU is probably going to be the greatest team of the 10s, but that team that once had Tulane under an almost 20-game losing streak has now seen that change into a 2-win streak for the Green Wave, and it grew to a third straight for the Tiger Rag as Tulane defeated LSU in a comeback OT performance.

"I told them you just gotta believe. So what if we're down 14-0, it's the 1st quarter. I think we responded well today to those who thought this was a down year for us. Our first big test and we passed it.", said Ron Draggo after the game. LSU, yes, had a 14-0 lead in the 1st quarter. But that's when the Green Wave came to life. After DeShawn Larsen's crazy catch (video), he caught a 20 yard TD pass later that drive to cut the lead to 14-7. Ubekista's 45 yard FG made it 14-10 at the break after Tulane had experienced an INT before those scoring drives (also got an INT).

Tulane's final three minute momentum continued with a 42 yard TD pass to J.D. Williams, giving the Green Wave a 17-14 lead. Another INT by the Tigers gave Tulane a chance to score, but LSU shot down Tulane's fake FG on a 53 yard try. LSU took this momentum and turned it into a 4 yard TD pass. After a 3 and out, the Tigers early 4th quarter field goal made it 24-17. Tulane wasn't done yet as Burns found Taylor Mackey for a 27 yard TD, to make it 24-24. LSU drove back down the field in the final two-and-a-half minutes and were stopped to a fourth and goal. LSU daringly went for it as Tulane would have to play conservatively to avoid a safety if they got the stop. Of all the plays to call, LSU called a HB pass, and it worked. RB Spicer threw a TD and Tulane was in utter shock as a trick play had delievered a huge blow with 62 seconds to go as LSU took a 31-24 lead. However, Jamal Burns wasted no time finding DeShawn Larsen - the freshman - who was left open for a 65 yard catch and run which put the Green Wave at the 14 just seconds later. Without calling a timeout, the Green Wave put the ball in Burns hands and on a designed run Burns found the endzone with 30 seconds to go. LSU couldn't do anything in the final seconds and OT it was.

LSU won the toss for OT but Tulane didn't mind it. Tulane had no problem scoring a TD on O.J. Clarke's 3 yard TD run. However, the XP was a different story, somehow someway, LSU got through Tulane's line, but missed blocking the FG by mere inches and it was good. If LSU had scored a TD, this would have been the reason we lost. Now it was either TD or game over with a 35-28 deficit for LSU. After three plays, the Tigers got six yards. On fourth down, they tossed a pass to the RB and Dwayne Horne made the game-saving tackle about three yards short of the 15 and Tulane won their third straight against the Tigers 35-28 in OT.

PLAYER STATS
Jamal Burns: 16-for-31 passing, 316 yards, 3 TD, INT, 22 rush yards, TD
O.J. Clarke: 16 carries, 91 yards, TD, 7 rec yards
DeShawn Larsen: 5 rec, 129 yards, TD
J.D. Williams: 4 rec, 98 yards, TD
Taylor Mackey: 2 rec, 42 yards, TD
Dwayne Horne: 7 tackles, 3 TFL, 2 sacks
Terrance Carr: 7 tackles, TFL, INT
Erik Madison: 7 tackles, INT

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WEEK 4

BIG XII SCORES
Utah 38, Eastern Washington 7
Kansas St. 13, UCF 7
Iowa State 38, Northern Iowa 14
#14 Oklahoma 40, Cincinnati 7
Missouri 31, Miami U. 0
UCLA 22, #2 Texas 20 (UCLA GW FG with :02 left)
Kansas 35, NM State 18

NCAA SCORES
#15 PITT 29, #11 Miami 23
Kentucky 23, #16 Florida 0
Nevada 34, BYU 20 -- Nevada is 4-0.. BYU is 0-4

TOP 25 UPDATE
1. Alabama, 2. Oregon, 3. Boise, 4. VT, 5. TCU, 6. Nebraska, 7. Iowa, 8. Ohio State, 9. Wisky, 10. GT are the top 10.
Texas dropped to #12.
Miami dropped to #16.
UCLA jumped to #18.
18 of the 25 teams in the top 25 are undefeated.
Florida dropped out.

UP NEXT: 3-1 Kansas, at home, first meeting.

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2ND HALF OFFENSIVE BLOWOUT

EASW is down. Pictures to come later.

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- Tulane walked into the locker room with a hard-fought 7-0 lead at the half where the game had 5 first half turnovers and Kansas out-yarded Tulane 244-210 at the break, but their 3 turnovers to Tulane's 2 were the difference. The Green Wave's passing attack had been unsuccessful while O.J. Clarke's 37 yard TD run in the first quarter had the running game just at 100 yards total. A different team took the field in the second half, though.

After two Kansas INTs, a fumble on a catch + run near the end of the half in field goal range, the Jayhawks were scoreless. Tulane's Jamal Burns had had thrown a pick, and he'd fumbled the ball away in the first half, another bad week for him so far. However, when things we're going our way, we ran the ball. And in the second half, we ran it like crazy.

O.J. Clarke's 3 yard TD run on the opening drive of the 3rd made it 14-0. Then after another Kansas turnover on a fumble, O.J. Clarke went 44 yards for the score, making it 21-0. Kansas got their first TD of the day on a 12 yard TD pass as the 3rd quarter ended from Carter to their to WR Ronnie Brown. Tulane's running show didn't stop there, as O.J. Clarke got TD #4 on a 9 yard option pitch from Jamal Burns to make it 28-7. The rout continued with Jamal Burns' 22 yard strike to Vernon Blair, the team's 3rd TE.

The Green Wave got the ball back and with the reserves in, it looked like Corey Graham would be getting his first score, but he fumbled the ball away, and Kansas scooped and scored to make it 35-14. Obviously upset, Mike Marquardt - whose career long run was 20 yards to this point and after off-season talk of "why is someone who has less than 3.5 YPC the Green Wave's 2nd RB?", he continued to show new power as he busted through the Kansas defense for a 41 yard TD run with one minute left. In this game, he ran for 19.8 yards a carry. Jeez. That would seal the deal completely in the 42-14 victory.

PLAYER STATS
Jamal Burns: 11-for-24 passing, 207 yards, TD, INT, Fumble lost
O.J. Clarke: 18 carries, 213 yards, 4 TD, 2 rec, 18 yards
Corey Graham: 6 carries, 42 yards
Mike Marquardt: 5 carries, 99 yards, TD
Chad Flowers: 3 rec, 28 yards
Vernon Blair: Rec, 22 yards
Taylor Mackey & Blake Walters: both had 59 yard receptions (Mackey 2 YAC, Walters 59)
Kasey Capps: INT, FR
Jay Kerr: INT
Marlin Nelson: FR
Scott Barrett: FF
Derek Larson: FF

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WEEK 5

BIG XII SCORES
A&M 31, #25 Okie Jr. 3
Iowa State 35, Baylor 14
#12 Texas 32, #14 Oklahoma 14 / there were 8 field goals in this game. Texas had 6 of them.
#4 TCU 24, Georgia 23

NCAA/TOP 25 SCORES
Stanford 22, #2 Oregon 10
#7 Iowa 20, #19 Penn State 16
#22 Washington 34, #13 USC 31 2OT

TOP 25 UPDATE
1. Alabama, 2. Boise, 3. VT (remember - this game never happened), 4. TCU, 5. Nebraska, 6. Iowa, 7. Ohio State, 8. Wisky, 9. GT, 10. Texas.
Oregon fell to #12.
Stanford in at #22.
We got 10 votes in the AP poll, none in the Coaches, so I'd say we're like 35th.

NEXT UP: Baylor (2-2)

[morsdraconis]

Hey man, just wanted to say you've been a great inspiration on my own dynasty stuff with your Around the NCAA stuff. It's an excellent idea and I really like keeping tabs on the other teams around the NCAA (and seeing some of the crazy upsets).

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GREEN WAVE UPSET


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A fumble by Baylor turned into three players for Tulane touching the ball and lateraling it to score the game's first TD on a crazy play.

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Besides that, it was the John Christian show as he had 2 rushing TDs..
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..and also threw for 238 yards
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After Jamal Burns' injury, Rich Nelson had to lead the Green Wave's comeback, but all hopes ended on this forced bad pass on fourth and five.

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- After starting out 4-0, Baylor at 2-2 shouldn't have been much of a problem, right? A big win over Kansas last week should keep our momentum going? I mean, we beat LSU but our offense continues to misfire when it doesn't need too, leading us to our eventual downfall, we could kind of see it coming, but just not to Baylor. That's all you can really say about the Bears 24-21 victory over the undefeated Green Wave in the Superdome.

Obviously, John Christian, Baylor's redshirt sophomore QB is good, and he's alot better than last year, and he was ready to tear us up for a perfect day through the air and on the ground, throwing for 238 yards and rushing for 2 TDs, and having no turnovers. In fact, Baylor's only turnover of the game was on the opening play where Marlin Nelson recovered Barrett's forced fumble, who fumbled it, which was recovered by Terrance Carr, who lateraled it to Scott Barrett, who scored.

After that, Tulane scratched their heads as Christian ran for a TD along with Reese, and the Bears had a 17-7 lead with a 21 yard field goal as Tulane's turnovers and bad offense doomed them. Tulane got the game down to 17-14 with a 13 yard TD run by O.J. Clarke, but Christian's 4 yard TD run made it 24-14. Later in the third, after a Baylor punt, Jamal Burns hits J.D. Williams who beats his man for a 89 yard TD! Needless to say, we thought we were back in it, but we couldn't get it going. Jamal Burns got hurt and that led to the Rich Nelson show where he could not deliever on fourth down twice, and the game concluded after the second fourth down as Tulane was out of timeouts, but he had drove them from the six-yard line to 35 or so, so he did the best he could, but it just wasn't good enough as Baylor upset the Green Wave 24-21.

PLAYER STATS

Jamal Burns (back spasms): 7-15 passing, 160 yards, TD, 2 INT, fumble lost, 11 rush yards
O.J. Clarke: 16 carries, 136 yards, TD
Deshawn Larsen: 4 rec, 49 yards
J.D. Williams: 2 rec, 97 yards, TD
Dwayne Horne: 7 tackles, 3 TFL, Sack
Marlin Nelson: 4 tackles, TFL, Sack, FR
Scott Barrett: 4 tackles, FF, recieved lateral, Def TD

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WEEK 6

BIG XII SCORES
Utah 28, K-State 21
Oklahoma St. 20, UL-Laf 10
#4 TCU 23, Missouri 17
Iowa State 22, Tulsa 10 (ISU 5-1)
A&M 53, #23 Arkansas 31

TOP 25/NCAA SCORES
Virginia 23, #9 GT 21
Hawai'i 37, #21 Fresno 31
Cal 13, #16 UCLA 10
#22 Stanford 34, #18 USC 20
#7 Ohio State 38, #5 Nebraska 16
Arizona 28, #13 Oregon State 19
#24 Florida St 38, #14 Miami 19

TOP 25 UPDATE
1. Alabama, 2. Iowa, 3. VT, 4. TCU, 5. Boise, 6. Wisky, 7. Ohio St., 8. PITT, 9. Texas, 10. Nebraska
Big movers: Washington (up 6 to #11), Stanford (8, #14)
Out: UCLA, Fresno, Arkansas
In: Utah, aTm, Arizona
Outside Looking In: UCLA, Houston, Nevada, SCar, UNC, Ark, Fresno, OK St, Auburn

SURPRISING UNBEATENS: Nevada (no Boise to deal with, this year's Buffalo?), Washington, Stanford, Boston College.

BIG XII STANDINGS:
North: TCU, Iowa State, Utah all undefeated
South: A&M, Texas undefeated

UP NEXT: at #4 TCU (5-0)