Tulane Loses Their Marbles in Demoralizing Homecoming Loss to Tulsa

There simply aren’t excuses for what transpired in the Tulane Green Wave’s 60-10 loss to the Tulsa Golden Hurricane.

As head coach Will Hall put it to the Voice of the Green Wave, Corey Gloor, on the postgame broadcast, the players were humiliated, and so was he.

Every single phase failed miserably and made the Golden Hurricane look like a College Football Playoff favorite.

That was the worst loss in Yulman Stadium history. The only comparable losses in recent history are the three losses to the Ole Miss Rebels on the road – once in 2021, and twice in 2025.

But the Rebels are an SEC team. And last season, they were a playoff-caliber SEC team that advanced to the Semifinals.

Tulsa was 4-4 on the year and 1-3 in conference play. They were coming off of three straight losses to the Navy Midshipmen, Army Black Knights, and Rice Owls.

Their only win was against Rice. They most recently took Army down to the wire and lost to them, much like the Green Wave.

That was a respectable loss for Tulane earlier in conference play. What happened on Saturday’s Homecoming was inexcusable.

Of the 204 yards that the Green Wave amassed, 114 of them came in the fourth quarter. They had -1 yards in the second quarter.

There was no point in this game where it felt like Tulane was in it after the field goal attempt early in the game went amiss.

If anything, the game illuminated the importance of a good punter, because he’s also your holder, who suddenly became critically important in how the game unfolded.

There’s no reason to think that things would have gone differently if the Green Wave had converted that field goal, as they only scored 10 points and gave up a whopping 60.

But momentum is a real thing. Tulane has, if anything, failed to harness its power in any game outside of their win over the Memphis Tigers, which is more confusing than anything at this point.

And it felt like once they relinquished it to Tulsa, they couldn’t even remember why they showed up to Yulman Stadium.

So, with that, any dreams of heading to a conference championship are squandered. Not just that, but a trip to a bowl game is in question for the first time since 2021.

That year, the team went 2-10. But things felt better at this point of the year than they do now, because it felt like there was light at the end of the tunnel.

The Green Wave didn’t show any reason to think there was one today.

They have three games left on the season and need two more wins to get to bowl eligibility.

Will anyone be happy with that? No.

But it’s the only shot at stopping a spiral that hit a critical impasse on Saturday.