Tulsa-Cincinnati Game Notes

GAME 12:
TULSA (8-3, 5-2 The American) vs. CINCINNATI (4-7, 1-6 The American)
Friday, November 25, 2016 • 7:30 p.m. (CT)
H.A. Chapman Stadium (30,000) • Tulsa, Okla.
TV: ESPU
Radio: Big Country 99.5 FM

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THE COACHES
TULSA GOLDEN HURRICANE
Head Coach:           Philip Montgomery (Tarleton State '95), 2nd year
Career Record: 14-10 (2 years)
TU Record: same

CINCINNATI BEARCATS
Head Coach:          Tommy Tuberville (Southern Arkansas '76), 4^th year
Career Record: 159-98 (21 years)
UCF Record:           29-21 (4 years)

THE STORYLINES . . .
•     This is the 33rd meeting between Tulsa and Cincinnati.
•     Tulsa has the smallest FBS enrollment with 3,473 students, while Cincinnati has an enrollment of 42,656 students.
•     It's the final home game for 18 Tulsa seniors.
•     Tulsa has scored 40+ points in eight games this season, while Cincinnati has not surpassed the 40-point plateau in any of its 11 games.
•     Tulsa has averaged 40.0 points in its three November games, while Cincinnati averages just 4.3 point in the month of November.
•     Tulsa has clinched its 21st and second straight appearance in a bowl game, becoming bowl eligible on Oct. 29th with its sixth win of the season.

QUICK HITS . . .
•     Tulsa running backs D'Angelo Brewer and James Flanders became the second tandem in school history to each rush for 1,000 yards in the same season.
•     QB Dane Evans is now the school's career passing leader with 11,071 yards.
•     A total of 19 freshmen have seen action in at least one game this year, including 12 red-shirt freshmen and seven true freshmen . . . two transfers have also made playing debuts this year.
•     Tulsa's offense has seven 300+ rushing games this year, breaking the previous record of six 100+ rushing games that was established three times before.
•     In 24 games under Philip Montgomery, Tulsa has scored over 40 points 15 times and has posted a 12-3 record when doing so.
•     Tulsa has had 32 scoring drives in regulation under two minutes this season, including 10 under one minute.
•     Tulsa has gone over 500 yards of total offense in 14 games over the last two seasons under Montgomery, including five times gaining over 600 yards . . . Tulsa had seven 500+ games last year, including three 600+ games . . . this year, Tulsa has seven 500+ games, including one over 600 yards.
•   Tulsa has scored over 400 points this year for the 12th time in school history.

THE SERIES . . .
•     This is the 33rd meeting between Tulsa and Cincinnati.
•     The Bearcats lead the series 16-14-2, and have won the last five meetings, which is Cincinnati's longest winning streak in the series.
•     Tulsa's longest win streak in the series is eight games, from 1965 through 1975.
•     Tulsa has a 10-4-2 series lead at home against the Bearcats, and has a 14.1 win margin in those games.

EIGHTEEN SENIORS PLAY IN FINAL HOME GAME . . .
•     Eighteen Tulsa seniors will be playing in the final home game this week.
•     There are six seniors on the offensive side of the ball –– WR Josh Atkinson, QB Dane Evans, RB James Flanders, WR Keevan Lucas, OG Alex Pagonis and RB Raymond Taylor.
•     Tulsa has 10 defensive seniors on the roster –– DB Will Barrow, DB Jeremy Brady, DT Hayden Carman, DB Johnell Celistan, LB Matt Hickman, LB Matt Linscott, LB Trent Martin, LB Conner Sherwood, LB Micheal Thomas and DE Jerry Uwaezuoke.
•     Two seniors are on special teams including P Dalton Parks and DS TY Lott.
•     Nine of those seniors have already earned their bachelor's degrees at Tulsa – Atkinson, Brady, Carman, Evans, Hickman, Linscott, Martin, Sherwood and Uwaezuoke – and one graduate transfer (Raymond Taylor).

1,000 YARD DUO AMONG SCHOOL'S TOP 10 . . .
•     The Tulsa running duo of D'Angelo Brewer and James Flanders became just the 72nd pair of running backs in D1 (FBS) history to reach 1,000 rushing yards in the same season.
•     Flanders reached 1,000 yards against East Carolina, while Brewer eclipsed the mark at Navy . . . Flanders now has 1,332 yards and Brewer has 1,231 yards this year.
•     Flanders ranks 4th and Brewer is 7th on the school's single-season rushing list.
•     It's the second time in school history that a Tulsa running duo has surpassed 1,000 yards in the same season.
•     The tandem has combined for 11 100+ rushing games this year, including Flanders with six and Brewer with five.
•     Tulsa's Palomino Express – Micheal Gunter and Ken Lacy – rushed for 1,464 and 1,097 yards, respectively, in 1982 equaling that year SMU's Pony Express of Eric Dickerson and Craig James, who did the same.

EVANS IS ALL-TIME PASSING LEADER, GETTING CLOSE ON OTHER LISTS . . .
•     Senior quarterback Dane Evans threw for a season-high 369 yards at Navy, and in so doing became the school's career passing leader, surpassing Paul Smith's (2003-07) total of 10,936 yards.
•     Evans now has 11,071 career passing yards in 44 career games.
•     He is also in second place on the school's career total offense list, surpassing G.J. Kinne (2009-11).
•     Evans now has 11,111 total yards in his career, 491 yards shy of tying Paul Smith (2003-07) for the school record.
•     With 76 career passing touchdowns, Evans is in third place on the school's all-time list, five shy of tying G.J. Kinne (2009-11) for fifth place and seven short of tying Paul Smith (2003-07) for first place.
•     With one more 300+ passing game, Evans will tie Paul Smith's (2003-07) record of 15 300+ passing games.
•     Evans already holds the school records for completions (851), attempts (1,501) and 400-yard passing games (4).

TULSA SETS MARK FOR 300-YARD RUSHING GAMES . . .
•     Tulsa has rushed for 300+ yards in seven of its 11 games this season to establish a new school record.
•     Tulsa rushed for 305 yards vs. San Jose State, 336 at Fresno State, 315 vs. SMU, 330 vs. Tulane, 362 at Memphis, 342 vs. East Carolina and 348 at UCF.
•     The seven 300+ rushing games surpasses the mark of six that was set in 1950, 1952 and 2008.

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Players Mentioned

Josh Atkinson

Will Barrow

Jeremy Brady

D'Angelo Brewer

Hayden Carman

Johnell Celistan

Dane Evans

James Flanders

Matt Hickman

Matt Linscott

Keevan Lucas

Trent Martin

Alex Pagonis

Dalton Parks

Conner Sherwood

Raymond Taylor

Micheal Thomas

Jerry Uwaezuoke

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