Tulsa Game Notes vs. Tulane

GAME 6:
TULSA (1-4, 0-1 The American) vs. TULANE (2-2, 0-1 The American)
Saturday, October 7, 2017 • 3:00 p.m. (CT)
Yulman Stadium (30,000), New Orleans, La.
TV: ESPNU
Radio: Big Country 99.5 FM

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THE COACHES
TULSA GOLDEN HURRICANE
Head Coach:           Philip Montgomery (Tarleton State '95), 3rd year
Career Record:      17-14 (3 years)
TU Record:            same

TULANE GREEN WAVE
Head Coach:          Willie Fritz (Pittsburg State '83), 2^nd year
Career Record:      160-79 (21 years)
Tulane Record:       6-10 (2 years)

THE STORYLINES . . .
•   Tulsa is in its 118th season of football this year.
•   Tulsa has the smallest FBS undergraduate enrollment with 3,406 students, while Tulane has an enrollment of 13,448 students.
•   This is the third consecutive week that Tulsa will face a team running a version of the option … in the previous two weeks, Tulsa faced New Mexico and Navy.
•   Tulsa averages 295.0 rushing yards per game to rank 9th nationally, while Tulane is ranked 19th in the nation with an average of 244.2 yards per game.

THE TULSA-TULANE SERIES . . .
•   This is the 14th meeting between Tulsa and Tulane.
•   Tulsa leads the series 11-2 and has won the last three contests.
•   Tulsa had a series leading 8-game winning streak, winning eight straight games in consecutive seasons from 2005-2012.
•   The Hurricane has a 26.2 win margin in its 11 wins, while Tulane has won its two games by a margin of 8.5 points.
•   Tulsa is 6-0 at home, 4-2 in New Orleans and 1-0 in a neutral site game against the Green Wave.
•   Tulsa has won the 4 games in New Orleans by 21.8 points..
•   The Hurricane won last year's meeting at home by a score of 50-27.

QUICK HITS . . .
•   D'Angelo Brewer has the 4th highest rushing game in the NCAA this year when he totaled 262 yards against Louisiana.
•   Tulsa's 66 points scored vs. Louisiana is tied for the 3rd most points in the NCAA this year, only behind Oregon's 77 and Missouri's 72.
•   Tulsa had back-to-back 400+ rushing games, including 424 yards vs. Louisiana and 423 yards at Toledo.
•   In the last 2 weeks, Tulsa's defense has held its 2 opponents (New Mexico, Navy) to 159.8 average yards less than the first 3 opponents (Oklahoma State, Louisiana and Toledo) … the first 3 opponents averaged 638.3 yards, while the last two averaged 478.5 yards against the Hurricane.

BREWER BECOMES ONLY 4th TULSA PLAYER TO SURPASS 3,000 CAREER RUSHING YARDS . . .
•   D'Angelo Brewer become just the 4th running back in school history to rush for over 3,000 career yards on just his 4th carry against Navy.
•   Brewer now has 3,043 career yards and 20 touchdowns on 601 carries.
•   He jumped from 9th place to 4th place on the school's all-time rushing chart with his 262-yard rushing performance against Louisiana in the second game of the season.
•   He came into that Louisiana game with 2,433 career rushing yards and ended with 2,695 career yards.
•   Brewer also went over 100 yards this year with 152 rushing yards against Toledo and 131 yards vs. New Mexico.
•   Brewer is now 472 yards away from moving up any further on the career rushing
     list … Trey Watts (2010-13) is in third place with 3,515 yards.
•   Brewer has 12 career 100-yard rushing games … he is tied with Gordon Brown (1984-85) for the 4th most 100-yard rushing games in school history … trailing Micheal Gunter (16; 1980-83), Tarrion Adams (16; 2005-08), and Trey Watts (15; 2010-13).

PRESIDENT GOES OVER 100 RUSHING YARDS TWICE . . .
•   Tulsa quarterback Chad President has rushed for over 100 yards in 2 of Tulsa's first 5 games this year.
•   Against Navy, he totaled 151 yards, but had over 100 of that in the first quarter.
•   President had 106 yards on just two carries in the first quarter, one in Tulsa's first scoring drive covering 35 yards to the Navy 38, and a 71-yard run to the Navy 15-yard line on Tulsa's second scoring drive.
•   President ended the first quarter with 110 yards rushing on 4 carries.
•   His first 100-yard game came at Toledo when he rushed for 130 yards.
•   President is the first quarterback since James Kilian in 2003 with two 100-yard rushing games in the same season since (UTEP and Hawaii).
•   In his two 100+ rushing games, President totaled 281 yards on just 24 carries for an 11.7-yard average per attempt in those games.

FIVE FROSH OR TRUE SOPHS START ON DEFENSE . . .
•   Tulsa had a total of 5 first or second-year players in the starting lineup on defense last week against Navy.
•   True freshmen Garrett Flanary (tackle) and Akayleb Evans (corner) started their third and second games this season.
•   Red-shirt freshman tackle Tyarise Stevenson received his first career start.
•   True sophomores Shemarr Robinson and Manny Bunch started their fourth and fifth games of the year, respectively.

POSSESSION TIME DIFFERENTIAL . . .
•   Tulsa has faced option teams in the last two weeks, and those teams have controlled time of possession against the Hurricane.
•   In the last two weeks, Tulsa's offense has only had possession for 37:41, while the opposition has totaled 82:19 of the clock.
•   Tulsa's offense against Navy had under 60 plays and just barely over 20 minutes of possession time … Navy had 72 plays and 39:38 of possession time, while Tulsa had 57 plays and 20:22 in possession time …
•   A week earlier against New Mexico, the Lobos held a 42:41 to 17:19 time of possession advantage over Tulsa, and had 73 plays compared to 58 for Tulsa.
•   Tulsa has averaged 57.5 plays over the last 2 games, compared to 92.7 plays in the first 3 games.
•   Tulsa also had a slight possession time edge in the first 3 games, 30:13 to 29:47.

Tulsa Game Notes vs. Tulane

Players Mentioned

D'Angelo Brewer

Manny Bunch

Akayleb Evans

Garrett Flanary

Chad President

Shemarr Robinson

Tyarise Stevenson

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