Tulsa Post-Game Notes vs. Stephen F. Austin
8/31/2006 12:00:00 AM | Football
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• Tarrion Adams scored on a 4-yard run on Tulsa's First Possession of the Season, his 9th career rushing touchdown.
• Nick Bunting and Jeff Perrett started their 36th straight game.
• Tarrion Adams scored on a 36-yard reception from Paul Smith on Tulsa's 2nd possession, his 3rd receiving touchdown of his career, also Paul Smith's 22nd passing touchdown of his career.
• Last year, Tulsa did not score on our first possession of the game until the fifth game against Houston on October 1, 2005.
• Jarod Tracy kicked his first career field goal at the 12:03 mark in the 2nd quarter.
• Courtney Tennial's 12-yard touchdown run in the 2nd quarter was his first collegiate touchdown.
• Tennial's 25-yard touchdown reception in the 2nd quarter was his first career receiving touchdown.
• Tulsa scored 31 points in the first half, the most since when they scored 31 in the 12th game of the 2005 season against UCF in the C-USA Championship game on December 3, 2005.
• It was the first time Tulsa has shutout an opponent in the first half, since the 7th game of 2005 season against Rice on October 15, 2005.
• Tulsa scored on all 5 possessions of the first half and the first possession of the 2nd half, scoring on its first 6 possessions to begin the game.
• Moton Hopkins' field goal block at the end of the 2nd quarter was his first block of his career.
• Tulsa has scored 30 or more points in 12 of 18 home games since 2003, they have scored over 40 points in five games in that period.
• Nick Henderson's 4-yard touchdown catch was his first career reception.
• 14 different receivers had receptions for Tulsa, including 7 with their first career catch (Collums, Tennial, Meyer, Henderson, Kizer, Grooms, and Taylor).
• Paul Smith was 16-20 for 229 yards and three passing touchdowns, giving him 24 career passing touchdowns. It is his 7th straight game over 200 yards passing and his 11th in two years. Smith moved into 11th place on the all-time career passing list with 3361 yards, passing Steve Gage.
• Tulsa is 62-44-1 in season openers; with the win against SFA they ended a 4 game losing streak in season openers.
• Tulsa is 54-23 record for a .701 winning percentage in home openers at Skelly. Tulsa has opened the season 50 times at Skelly Stadium since 1930, they are 37-13 with a .740 winning percentage. Tulsa is 50-17 when opening the season at home for a .746 winning percentage.
• Tulsa is 9-8 in home openers since 1990.
• Tulsa has the most experienced offense line in the Nation with 99 career starts (Jeff Perrett: 38, Danenhauer: 27, Mengers: 20, Hameister-Ries: 14).
• Nick Bunting has 260 career tackles, making him 129 tackles shy of tying Michael White.
• Tulsa is 22-17 under Steve Kragthorpe.
