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2014 Tulane Green Wave football team

2014 Tulane Green Wave football
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Conference American Athletic Conference
2014 record 3–9 (2–6 The American)
Head coach Curtis Johnson (3rd year)
Offensive coordinator Eric Price
Co-defensive coordinator Jon Sumrall
Co-defensive coordinator Lionel Washington
Home stadium Yulman Stadium
(Capacity: 30,000)
Seasons
← 2013
2015 →
2014 American Athletic Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
#25 Memphis +   7 1         10 3  
Cincinnati +   7 1         9 4  
UCF +   7 1         9 4  
East Carolina   5 3         8 5  
Houston   5 3         8 5  
Temple   4 4         6 6  
South Florida   3 5         4 8  
Tulane   2 6         3 9  
Tulsa   2 6         2 10  
Connecticut   1 7         2 10  
SMU   1 7         1 11  
  • + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll
Tulane at Tulsa
1 2 3 4 OT 2OT Total
Tulane 7 14 0 7 3 0 31
Tulsa 0 14 3 11 3 7 38
  • Location: Tulsa, OK
  • Game start: 7:00 PM CDT
  • Game attendance: 19,032
  • Television network: CBSSN
Georgia Tech at Tulane
1 2 3 4 Total
Georgia Tech 7 17 7 7 38
Tulane 14 7 0 0 21
  • Location: New Orleans, LA
  • Game start: 3:00 PM CDT
  • Game attendance: 30,000
  • Television network: ESPNews
SE Louisiana at Tulane
1 2 3 4 Total
#3 (FCS) SE Louisiana 0 3 7 10 20
Tulane 7 21 0 7 35
  • Location: New Orleans, LA
  • Game start: 7:00 PM CDT
  • Game attendance: 26,358
  • Television network: ESPN3
Tulane at Duke
1 2 3 4 Total
Tulane 7 0 6 0 13
Duke 16 3 14 14 47
  • Location: Durham, NC
  • Game start: 12:30 PM EDT
  • Game attendance: 20,197
  • Television network: ACCN/FSNO
Tulane at Rutgers
1 2 3 4 Total
Tulane 0 6 0 0 6
Rutgers 17 7 3 7 34
  • Location: Piscataway, NJ
  • Game start: 12:00 PM EDT
  • Game attendance: 48,361
  • Television network: ESPNews
Connecticut at Tulane
1 2 3 4 Total
Connecticut 3 0 0 0 3
Tulane 7 0 2 3 12
  • Location: New Orleans, LA
  • Game start: 7:00 PM CDT
  • Game attendance: 23,076
  • Television network: ESPNews
Tulane at UCF
1 2 3 4 Total
Tulane 3 0 3 7 13
UCF 0 13 7 0 20
  • Location: Orlando, FL
  • Game start: 12:00 PM EDT
  • Game attendance: 35,015
  • Television network: ESPNU
Cincinnati at Tulane
1 2 3 4 Total
Cincinnati 10 14 7 7 38
Tulane 0 0 14 0 14
  • Location: New Orleans, LA
  • Game start: 7:00 PM CDT
  • Game attendance: 21,414
  • Television network: ESPN2

The 2014 Tulane Green Wave football team represented Tulane University in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Curtis Johnson and played home games at Yulman Stadium. They were in their first year of membership in the American Athletic Conference, and it was the Green Wave's first season on its Uptown campus since the 1974 college football season. They finished the season 3–9, 2–6 in AAC play to finish in a tie for eighth place.

Sources:

Lorenzo Doss

Source

In Tulane and Tulsa's first game as members of The American - and The American's first game of the 2014 season - the Golden Hurricane held on to beat the Green Wave in double overtime. Tulsa tied the game with 2:53 left, after nearly an entire game with Tulane in the lead. In a reversal of the previous season, the Wave appeared stronger offensively than defensively, allowing 551 yards in regulation time. Redshirt freshman Tanner Lee threw for 262 yards with 3 touchdowns and 1 interception. Redshirt freshman running back Sherman Badie had a 90-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, the longest by a Tulane player in 21 years, and in the third and fourth quarters, he had 75-yard and 73-yard runs, respectively.

This was Tulane's first game on its Uptown campus in nearly 40 years, as it was the grand opening of the Green Wave's new, $73-million Yulman Stadium. The game sold out 14 minutes after single-game tickets went on sale, and students picked up roughly 5,000 tickets for the game (about 40% of the entire undergraduate and graduate enrollment of the university), making it the largest student crowd at a Tulane game since football moved off campus in 1975.

On the first play from scrimmage, linebacker Eric Thomas forced a Georgia Tech fumble, which Royce LaFrance returned to the Yellow Jackets' 8-yard line one play before Justyn Shackleford caught a touchdown pass.

After the Wave took a 31-17 lead late in the 4th quarter, the Cougars scored a touchdown and then recovered an onside kick, driving into the red zone. On the last play of the game though, Parry Nickerson made his second interception of the night as time expired. With starters Sherman Badie and Lazedrick Thompson injured for the game, all 31 of the Green Wave's points were scored by true freshmen - Teddy Veal, Dontrell Hilliard, Leondre James, and Andrew DiRocco. The win snapped a 10-game losing streak to Houston, and an 18-game losing streak in games played outside the state of Louisiana.


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