[Postgame Thread] Tulane Defeats Memphis 31-17

[u/CFB_Referee]

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team	1	2	3	4	T
Memphis	3	7	0	7	17
Tulane	0	23	0	8	31

[u/jdprager]

Memphis was INSANELY lucky at avoiding turnovers tonight

They still turned it over six times

That about sums up this exquisite sickos win. No notes Greenies, this one was an absolute fuckin beauty

[u/jdprager → u/jdprager]

Barely 50% from the starting QB. 12 first downs to Memphis’s 28. Outgained by a full buck fifty. 2.8 yards per carry until our last offensive play. And 7x the penalty yards to boot

All that adds up to a two score win as a TD dawg. Roll fuckin wave baby

[u/Exciting_Pomelo_876 → u/jdprager]

Six turnovers and they still call it lucky, that second quarter must have been pure cinema.

[u/DenseLingonberry9656 → u/Exciting_Pomelo_876]

I was there and confirm this was a certified shitshow. It was awesome

[u/rageb8err → u/jdprager]

How tf do you lose to Will Hall. But props to Tulane. Roll Wave or whatever the thing is.

[u/Arkehn]

Are we sure Marcus Stokes' family wasn't kidnapped and is being held hostage in a basement somewhere?

[u/BakedSparkles → u/Arkehn]

Will Hall knew he was on the hot seat and took some extreme measures to keep his job

[u/Taz119 → u/BakedSparkles]

Is he really on the hotseat already? Good tbh

[u/Defacto_Champ → u/Arkehn]

Stokes with one of the worst performances I’ve seen by a qb in the FBS. If there was an chance he was going to try to make the NFL, that’s gone after tonight 

[u/shapu → u/Defacto_Champ]

I'm not honestly sure that he could make CFB after today's performance

[u/OnMyNerves23 → u/Arkehn]

The box score does not do a great job of telling the story of this game that he will not want to remember.

20-37/306/2 … 3 int, 3 fumbles, 2 fumbles lost. Jesus. These young men are better than me. I’d never overcome the adversity of my own brain. I’d hang up the cleats and get to selling gently used, low-mileage preowned cars with no credit history needed.

[u/dbelcher17 → u/Arkehn]

Wouldn't be the first time Tulane fans kidnapped tiger. 

[u/Botto71 → u/Arkehn]

There are no basements in New Orleans. We are below sea level

[u/Arkehn → u/Botto71]

I don't care. Build one and put Arch and Sark in it.

[u/djsquilz → u/Botto71]

about as reliable as a mid-city "basement" apartment

[u/waaaaaasuuuuup]

Coming in, Stokes had 1500+ yards, 16 TDs, 3 INTs and 1 lost fumble on the year.

Coming out he has 6 INTs and 3 lost fumbles. Doubled his INT total and tripled his lost fumble total in one night.

All time “shit the bed” performance.

I’m not one to pass blame on one player, but tonight I make an exception. This one was on Stokes.

[u/SilveryDeath → u/waaaaaasuuuuup]

Tulane also had 7 sacks this game, after having 6 sacks as a defense in the first five games.

[u/_ViceVerses_ → u/SilveryDeath]

Tulane had 1 turnover through 5 games - they forced 6 tonight.

Tulane was 9th worst in QB pressures on the season - they had 7 sacks tonight. It goes on and on. Weird game.

[u/Koolabaer → u/waaaaaasuuuuup]

.working on his DETMET Sickos rating

[u/sixdaysintheswamp]

roll motherfucking wave

[u/United_Energy_7503 → u/sixdaysintheswamp]

Classic PAC 12 matchup right here!

[u/Calithrand → u/United_Energy_7503]

Please. Please make this happen! I'm begging you...

[u/tgusn88 → u/Calithrand]

God as much as I'd love to see an annual clash of my flairs, Tulane in the Pac gives me the ick but I'm too stuck in the past I guess

[u/Adams5thaccount → u/tgusn88]

Ok but hear me out. Your furthest out conference member is currently 6 states away. In the PAC it would only be 5.

Obviously no additional math os neccesary after this.

[u/jbloom3 → u/Calithrand]

Get the media deal numbers working and I'm sure we'd listen

[u/anxiousauditor]

This conference race is shaping up to be a mess.

[u/United_Energy_7503 → u/anxiousauditor]

and it’s just getting started

[u/anxiousauditor → u/United_Energy_7503]

Only one team has made the CG at 6-2 since getting rid of divisions, but I can see it happening this year. UNT, FAU, and UTSA are the only unbeatens left already, and they play round-robin.

[u/djsquilz → u/anxiousauditor]

atp i think the usual suspects are a 3 pack (not 6 pack) of ass and will self cannibalize. then if no other clear g5 fav appears, usf, memphis, army, tulane, (i think maybe utsa?) will get an ass whooping in the playoffs even worse than tulane last year.

[u/JKess207]

You can never take any conclusions from this game. The worse team always wins.

GG Memphis

[u/Calithrand → u/JKess207]

I dunno... apparently we can conclude that Tulane is the worse team?

[u/The_Dreams → u/Calithrand]

I’ll be honest until that last back breaking 4th down score the game wasn’t put to bed, and we had like 6 turnovers. Neither team should have ever won this game lol.

[u/mickeyt1 → u/Calithrand]

I certainly didn’t come out of that game with the feeling Tulane was the better team

[u/djsquilz → u/Calithrand]

yes.

[u/pjpj8910 → u/JKess207]

Tulane has not been worse than Memphis 4 of the last 5 years. Spent less money on the roster, sure, but not worse. Memphis hasn't even made a conference championship game since the NIL era started.

[u/djsquilz → u/JKess207]

i've always contested memphis is our second rival over USM. in my 30 years of going to games, i've never disliked USM more than memphis. (we all know who # 1 is)

[u/Western_Astronaut562]

How about defending AAC champions. How about 7 point underdogs at home. How about talented. How about loving and respectful. Lost my coach 10 months ago. Lost to Army a week ago. 22-2 in conference before that. My testimony. Nothing but pure. And I asked if you want to be in the college football playoff and you like JMU

[u/Limlut_ → u/Western_Astronaut562]

Lmao. Roll wave

[u/OnMyNerves23 → u/Western_Astronaut562]

Talk your shit King.

[u/Terrible_Awareness_4 → u/Western_Astronaut562]

Sorry I like scrawny programs

[u/djsquilz → u/Western_Astronaut562]

the og meme just popped in my TL and i was severely triggered

[u/Constant-Traffic]

I don’t think I’ve felt this happy all season.

Memphis just out shit us tonight and Will Hall along with his staff still should be fired into the sun but still an enjoyable win.

Trace should be the starting QB going forward, didn’t play the best and showed some questionable judgement but at least he can sling the ball past 20 yards and he’s still a freshman so will only get better over time.

[u/pewpewshazaam → u/Constant-Traffic]

A pick-six going into the half was insane.

Your defense held the game down.

[u/wahoowalex → u/Constant-Traffic]

The kid can sling it, but his frontal cortex is certainly not fully developed

[u/djsquilz → u/wahoowalex]

other than the LSU basketball team, that's true of every college athlete.

[u/djsquilz → u/Constant-Traffic]

hall is gonna master the tactic of going 7-6 every year and get multiple contract extentions, calling it rn.

[u/Lutrid]

Glad to see Memphis’ band made the trip; I love their fight song

[u/ScreamingGoat25 → u/Lutrid]

I did a March madness bracket of only fight songs a few years ago and theirs became an instant favorite of mine

[u/bolivianrams1 → u/Lutrid]

I was walking back from the game and a bunch of people were humming or whistling it.

[u/cruxclaire → u/Lutrid]

I was there in person and am a Tulane alum with multiple band friends, so I love the tiny Tulane band, and I still wish they could’ve handed over the halftime performance to the Memphis band. They’re not huge, but they have all the talent and energy of a Big Ten band. They made the game more enjoyable

[u/Lutrid → u/cruxclaire]

Tulane’s band has character, I’ll tell you that; they sound just like what a university from New Orleans’ marching band would sounds like

[u/Schnakemane]

I didn’t know it was possible to turn the ball over that many times in a game. Hell that many times before half

[u/ID_Poobaru → u/Schnakemane]

It was like watching myself play CFB27

[u/cruxclaire → u/Schnakemane]

It was such a big game for both defenses that it felt like an offensive game. The two offenses were that bad. Amazing

[u/Calithrand → u/Schnakemane]

You clearly didn't watch UCLA at Oregon last weekend, then!

[u/United_Energy_7503]

AACtion strikes again!

[u/ArmiinTamzarian → u/United_Energy_7503]

Americannibalization strikes again

....we'll work on the name

[u/Magnus77 → u/ArmiinTamzarian]

Americhaos?

[u/Hypsar → u/Magnus77]

Mayhemerica

[u/UofMtigers2014]

I feel bad for the defense. They held Tulane to 0 points in the second half until that last play. Abysmal play by Marcus Stokes and the OLine, and playcalling in the red zone.

[u/legend023]

I don’t think you could be unintentionally better at losing a football game than Memphis was today.

[u/ConferenceUAB]

Losing to the man you replaced at your previous HC job is crazy work

[u/SimilarOnion1655]

Tulane fans, do you still want to fire Will Hall or keep him 

[u/DingersGetMeOff → u/SimilarOnion1655]

Fire. We still suck. Memphis just shitted and farted all over themselves.

[u/SSj_CODii → u/SimilarOnion1655]

Just let us enjoy tonight.

[u/NolaSilverFox → u/SimilarOnion1655]

This win screwed two fan bases. Crushed Memphis’ hopes at the playoff, and the students were chanting fire will hall with a major push from fans to shit can the AD, Hall And Hunter.

[u/sixdaysintheswamp → u/SimilarOnion1655]

this question gives me anxiety

[u/Vivid_Artichoke_9991 → u/SimilarOnion1655]

Memphis turned it over 7 times. Tulane still sucks

[u/ThisKidIsAlright → u/SimilarOnion1655]

Yes, but with my luck they'd hire Norvell after he finally gets shown the door.

[u/jbloom3 → u/SimilarOnion1655]

We lost last week because of coaching. But damn do I love a crazy win like tonight. I pass on your question

[u/wahoowalex → u/SimilarOnion1655]

Our average scoring drive was 41.6 yards. if Memphis had just waited until the redzone to fumble, or had Tulane forced those turnovers when we were going into the wind, we would have lost this game.

[u/sophandros → u/SimilarOnion1655]

Keep. But I was never on the idiotic fire him bandwagon.

[u/Cameronam]

Memphis is guaranteed to lose a random conference game they have no business losing every year

[u/usernames_suck_ok → u/Cameronam]

Yep.

[u/DaBatman314]

This comment was a fumble, recovered by the defense.

[u/Fresh_Drama_8298]

Sickos Classic

[u/flyntcoaltrane]

Looks like cannibalization is back on the menu for the American this year

gulps

[u/Particular-Way-3805]

Marcus Stokes flip the burgers man

[u/usernames_suck_ok → u/Particular-Way-3805]

Marcus Jokes (that aren't funny).

[u/Sparky_the_Asian]

gg Tulane, yall deserved this. Our team was on another planet of delusion tn

[u/SSj_CODii]

For one more week I can avoid the larger CFB drama and just love this damn game.

[u/SimilarOnion1655]

Take the points, if Memphis did that, they would have won 

[u/Calithrand → u/SimilarOnion1655]

Tackling would have helped them, too.

[u/SaintsSooners89 → u/Calithrand]

Apparently throwing 3 ints and fumbling 3 times also didn't help, who knew?

[u/Calithrand → u/SaintsSooners89]

Oh! Oh! We know that one!!!

[u/H_I_McDunnough]

The real champion this year seems to be home field advantage.

[u/letdownbytheAgs]

Coaches have to stop going for it too early. Memphis could have been tying the game up. I see those situations fail way more often than they succeed

[u/RecordingOpposite641]

If this is Hall Ball I’ll buy. Please never let Zeon or Kadin on the field again though.

[u/RestInSpaghettiSauce]

Aw hell that was rough

[u/bluediamondsm]

So much parity in the conference omg 🤩

[u/Go_birds304]

Memphis is the Penn state of the south. Always talking a big game but falling up short. The southern part is that they're poorer

[u/Podoboo322 → u/Go_birds304]

That is an incredibly generous description of Memphis

[u/defensecowboy]

I was shanghai’d into attending whatever all this gestures wildly was

There were maybe 2000 people there, the student section was never more than half full and memphis looked absolutely dreadful the entire time. I ended up getting a pretty good buzz going on with a tulane dad with a bottle of buffalo trace in his boot. 10/10 would roll wave again

[u/dbelcher17 → u/defensecowboy]

Definitely more than 2k in attendance, but a lot left early. Tulane crowds always have a lot of families with younger kids and older folks, so staying for an entire game on a Friday night is tough. 

Glad you had a good time though. 

[u/jbloom3 → u/defensecowboy]

There was more people than that. Yulman is a fun chill place to watch a game!

[u/ID_Poobaru]

Memphis kept blue balling themselves in the red zone

[u/douglaslife]

Sneaking this W into our skinny little bag, Roll Wave 🌊

[u/Gusanito99]

Who is even good in this conference lmao

[u/waaaaaasuuuuup → u/Gusanito99]

It’s like ACClite. Everyone sucks, but anyone can win!

*Aside from Miami who will cover the spread by the end of the first quarter tomorrow night.

[u/wahoowalex → u/waaaaaasuuuuup]

But don’t forget that Miami will still somehow lose to Virginia and Syracuse or something despite being ranked 9th

[u/ShweatyPalmsh → u/Gusanito99]

We are sort of sun belted ourselves lol.

[u/Comfortable-Bowl9373]

Imagine you put PAC and AAC together. Cause the top 3 in PAC are like best in Big 10 compared with SEC. American is just better. Beats each other up

[u/RukiMotomiya → u/Comfortable-Bowl9373]

The PAAC.

[u/usernames_suck_ok]

Defeated my patience with Memphis, too.

[u/Calithrand]

One less G6 contender.

[u/TheRealPhixfox]

Shocked, shocked I tell you!
Well not that shocked.

[u/GrimWickett]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[u/GolgariInternetTroll → u/GrimWickett]

This plus last night have done wonders for washing the stink of last week from my interest in college football.

[u/cruxclaire]

Tulane has played so badly this year and honestly even this game, I wouldn’t say they played particularly well, but Memphis absolutely shat the bed and I was happy to see it

[u/MediumStrange]

Man, I feel for Memphis. I really hope they can get it together before everything in cfb goes to shit, would love them in the B12

[u/wayne255]

Tulane scored five times in one quarter and one time the rest of the game. When has that ever happened before?

Roll Wave

[u/PomfAndCircvmstance]

Memphis peaked with beating UNLV in week 1.

[u/ShweatyPalmsh]

So pretty much anyone in the American at the moment could be conference champs or end the season last place based on the early conference results 

[u/OnMyNerves23]

Let’s go Tulane. Extend my boy Will Hall. Sent an email to the AD after this banger.

[u/LordOfSchmeat]

AIE
1-0
RMFW

[u/OldhamB]

That Memphis QB had to have money on Tulane. He fumbled the ball every time he got touched.

[u/djsquilz]

i was on a road trip outside range of the glorious voice of the wave, but what a result to come back to.

what in the world even happened here? i thought memphis was supposed to run thru the AAC's ass like shit through a tin horn