The Tulane Green Wave are in College Football Playoff contention and their first-year head coach is a big reason why.
to be competitive in the American Athletic Conference after consecutive 10-win seasons leading into 2024, not many expected the program to beFormer head coach Willie Fritz brought the program back to relevancy, making five bowl games in his eight-year tenure, and Sumrall is making sure they stay there after clinching a spot in the conference championship game last week.
"Jon Sumrall wasted no time replacing head coach Willie Fritz," writes Moriarty. "In his first season as the Green Wave's head coach, Sumrall has Tulane at 8-2, and is set to take on Army in the AAC title game. But Tulane's season didn't get off to the smoothest start. The Green Wave dropped back-to-back out-of-conference losses to Oklahoma and Kansas State early in the season. But Tulane hasn't lost a game since.
Now at 9-2 overall on the year, with a 7-0 record in conference play, Tulane is ranked 20th in the AP, Coaches, and College Football Playoffs Rankings, with only one game left in the regular season before their conference championship showdown with the
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