NEW ORLEANS –The Tulane football team (4-5, 2-3 American) lost 60-10 to Tulsa (5-4, 2-3 American) in the team’s Homecoming Game on Saturday, Nov. 7, at Yulman Stadium. The Golden Hurricane set a Yulman Stadium record for points in the game.
Tulsa scored first on the opening drive on the Baylor Hayes to Oran Singleton two-yard touchdown pass with 9:45 remaining in the opening quarter.
The Golden Hurricane made it a two-score game, 10-0, on the made 26-yard field goal for Owen Carey at the 10:48 mark of the second quarter.
After another stop by the Tulsa defense, the Golden Hurricane went up three scores, 17-0, on a seven-yard touchdown to Jimmy Calloway from Hayes with 5:27 remaining in the second.
A Tulane turnover quickly led to Tulsa’s third touchdown of the first half and 24-0 margin on a Javon Ross 11-yard score with 4:14 until the break.
Tulsa kept the pedal down and scored the team’s fourth touchdown before the break to go up 32-0 on the three-yard touchdown pass to Singleton from Hayes with 00:53 remaining in the second quarter after the good two-point conversion.
After a defensive stop to begin the second half, Tulsa scored the team’s fifth touchdown of the game as Singleton hauled in a 27-yard touchdown to go up 39-0 with 10:22 left in the third quarter. It was his third touchdown reception of the game.
Tulsa added another touchdown on their ensuing drive as Damari Alston ran it from the six to put the Hurricane up 46-0 with 4:10 left in the third quarter.
Tulane avoided the shutout as Cooper Helmke knocked in a 38-yard field goal to finish off a 14 play, 55-yard drive with 13:08 remaining in the game and put the score at 46-3.
Tulsa quickly answered with the team’s seventh touchdown of the day as Seth Davis had a 31-yard rush with 11:54 remaining to put the score at 53-3.
After another turnover, Tulsa reached the 60-point barrier on Sevion Morrison’s three-yard touchdown rush, 60-3, with 3:08.
Tulane’s lone touchdown of the game came as Dagan Bruno connected with Bredell Richardson with a second remaining in the game to make the final score 60-10
Offense: Trace Johnson went 11-for-19 for 69 yards plus an interception. Dagan Bruno was 4-for-6 for 43 yards. He had both a passing touchdown and an interception. He also ran three times for 10 yards. Johnny Daniels led the team with his 49 yards rushing on his 10 carries. Anthony Brown-Stephens hauled in five passes for 20 yards. Destin Hill had four catches for 55 yards. Bredell Richardson had a touchdown catch.
Defense: Dickson Aug led the team with eight tackles. TJ Smith totaled seven tackles including a stop for loss. Mac Williams had six tackles.
Special Teams: Cooper Helmke connected on 38-yard field goal. TJ Smith had five returns for 130 yards with a long 36. Brooks Moore punted five times for an average of 41.4 yards a kick.
Team: Tulane was outgained 562 to 204 in the game, including 338 to 112 through the air. Tulsa also recorded six sacks and 31 first downs in the game.
Next, Tulane gets on the road to take on Rice (1-7, 0-4 American) on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 1 p.m.
NOTES
– The 60 points scored by Tulsa was the most put up at Yulman Stadium since the Green Wave scored 66 points against Southern during the 2016 season (9/10/16).
– The team’s 60 points surrendered were the most the team has given up since Ole Miss scored 61 against the Green Wave on the road during the 2021 season (9/18/21).
– Tulsa’s Oran Singleton set a new Yulman Stadium with his 13 receptions breaking the mark of 11 set by Asaad Waseem of Florida Atlantic (11/15/25) and Johnell Barnes of Duke (9/3/15)…His three receiving touchdowns also tied the Yulman Stadium record last done by Terren Encalade of Tulane during the 2016 campaign (9/24/16).
– Tulsa’s Baylor Hayes tied the stadium record with his four passing touchdowns last done by Tulane’s Michael Pratt in 2022 (12/3/22).
– The 50-point loss was Tulane’s largest-ever defeat in American Conference play….The 50-point loss was the worst defeat for Tulane since falling 65-10 to Georgia Tech on the road during the 2015 campaign (9/12/15)…The 60 points allowed to Tulsa was the most the team has surrendered in American Conference as the previous mark was 55 to SMU during the 2021 season (10/21/21).
– Trace Johnson is the 10th different quarterback to start for Tulane since the start of the 2020 season, but only the sixth to start four or more games.
Tulane Quarterback Starts Since 2020
1) Michael Pratt – 44 games
2) Jake Retzlaff – 14 games
3) Darian Mensah – 13 games
t-4) Kai Horton – 4 games
t-4) Woman Semonza – 4 games
t-4) Trace Johnson – 4 games
t-6) Keon Howard – 3 games
t-8) Zeon Chriss-Gremillion – 1 game
t-8) Justin Ibieta – 1 game
t-8) You Thompson – 1 game
– With the loss, Tulane falls to 8-14 all-time against Tulsa in a series that started in 1968…Tulane has now won the three of the team’s last four games and six of the last nine over the Hurricane.
– Since the start of the 2022 season, Tulane is 47-18 (.723).
– Tulane is one of nine schools to win 47+ games from 2022-26.
– The program is below .500 after five conference games (2-3) for the 39th time in school history and the first time since 2021…The program is exactly 2-3 in league games for the first time since 2014 since the team first began playing conference games in 1933.
– The loss puts Tulane below .500 after nine games for the 60th time in school history but the first time since 2021…The team is exactly 4-5 after nine games for the first time since 2018
– Head Coach Will Hall is now 74-55 (.573) over the course of his 11-year head coaching career.
– Tulane improves to 31-6 in conference regular season play since 2022…The 87.3 percentage is the fourth-best in the country in that period of time.
1. Georgia 34-4 (89.5%)
2. Boise State 30-4 (88.2%)
3. Ohio State 36-5 (87.8%)
4. Tulane 31-6 (87.3%)
5. Jacksonville State 24-4 (85.7%)
6. Oregon 35-6 (85.4%)
7. Ohio 31-6 (83.7%)
7. SMU 31-7 (81.6%)
9. Alabama 30-8 (78.9%)
10. Michigan 32-9 (78.0%)
– Tulane has won 26 of the team’s last 31 regular season conference games (2-3 in 2026, 7-1 in 2025, 7-1 in 2024, 8-0 in 2023 and the last two conference games in 2022).
– The Green Wave have now outrushed the opposition in 41 of the last 63 games (including 35 of the last 53). In such contests, Tulane holds 38-3 (losses: 2022 vs. Southern Miss, 2023 vs. Ole Miss, and 2025 vs. UTSA).
– Since the beginning of the 2022 season, Tulane has only had five games where it has been forced to punt more than six times.
– Of the team’s 18 losses since the start of the 2022 season, nine have come to P4 opponents (at the time of competition).
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