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College Football Betting – Tulane vs. Tulsa

  • Updated: August 27, 2014
    • College Football Betting Tulane vs. Tulsa

    Tulane Turns to Newcomer at QB in Visit to Tulsa

    By Charles Jay

    The Tulane Green Wave had something of a revival last season, while the Tulsa Golden Hurricane floundered. On Thursday night these clubs are going to lock horns in college football betting action in the American Athletic Conference that is slated to get underway at 8 PM ET at H.A. Chapman Stadium in Tulsa.

    After three straight seasons in which they appeared in bowl games, the Golden Hurricane dropped to 3-9 last year, and lost a rather uncharacteristic 14-7 decision at the hands of Tulane, which was 7-6 and ended a drought of eleven years by appearing in a bowl game – the New Orleans Bowl, to be precise – which it hosted but lost 24-21 to Louisiana Lafayette.

    Tulane will go about its business with a quarterback who has never taken a snap in a college game, and Tulsa hopes that it gets more consistent performance from the quarterback who experienced some speed bumps in his freshman year.

    College Football Betting Tulane vs. Tulsa

    In the college football betting odds that have been posted on this game by the people at BetAnySports, Tulsa is the team laying points:

    Tulsa Golden Hurricane -6.5
    Tulane Green Wave +6.5

    Over 47 Points -110
    Under 47 Points -110

    The most important piece of news surrounding the Tulane program prior to the beginning of this season was the emergence of redshirt freshman Tanner Lee as the starting quarterback. Lee did not win the job by default, nor did he have to step in due to graduations. He literally won the job over two signal-callers who had appeared for this squad last year and helped lead them to a bowl game – Devin Powell and Nick Montana (Joe Montana’s son) – who combined for 19 TD passes and 15 interceptions last year.

    College football bettors who follow the Tulane program know that while this team was preparing for the bowl game, Lee was impressing the coaching staff (namely head man Curtis Johnson) during practices, and then took over during spring practice. This is significant because Tulane was not able to move the ball through the air very easily, relying instead on a defense that held opponents to 3.2 yards per rushing attempt.

    BetAnySports customers are looking for someone to develop into a proper support weapon for Lee. maybe he gets some help from another redshirt frosh in Sherman Badie. That might be necessary, depending on how well Lee can connect with his receivers.

    The Green Wave defense took advantage of opponents’ mistakes, to say the least; they garnered 35 turnovers last year. And they return six starters. One of these, in keeping with the “brush with greatness” theme, is Bob Marley’s grandson, linebacker Nico Marley.

    The college football betting public remembers a lot of Tulsa offenses that were high-flying. But last year the Hurricane averaged only 21 points a game, which was not going to get it done. Dane Evans had some jitters at the quarterback spot last year, with a ratio of four TD’s to ten interceptions that was not satisfactory. help is on the way, however. Keyarris Garrett, who was a second-team all-conference selection two years ago when he caught 67 passes, missed last season with a broken leg, but he is back, and BetAnySports patrons should expect that he will be a major contributor here.

    This is certainly a winnable game for Tulsa, and it is going to be necessary for them to do that, since they have a beatdown scheduled for next week against Oklahoma.

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    College Football Betting Tulane vs. Tulsa
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    College Football Betting - Tulane vs. Tulsa
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    College football betting odds from BetAnySports, Tulsa is the team laying points: Tulsa Golden Hurricane -6.5, Tulane Green Wave +6.5, Over/Under 47 Points
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