1998 Tulane Green Wave football team

1998 Tulane Green Wave football
C-USA champion
Liberty Bowl champion
Liberty Bowl, W 41–27 vs. BYU
Conference Conference USA
Ranking
Coaches No. 7
AP No. 7
1998 record 12–0 (6–0 C-USA)
Head coach Tommy Bowden (2nd)
Chris Scelfo (interim, bowl game)
Offensive coordinator Rich Rodriguez
Home stadium Louisiana Superdome
(Capacity: 69,028)
1998 Conference USA football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
No. 7 Tulane $  6 –0     12 –0  
Southern Miss  5 –1     7 –5  
Louisville  4 –2     7 –5  
East Carolina  3 –3     6 –5  
Army  2 –4     3 –8  
Houston  2 –4     3 –8  
Cincinnati  1 –5     2 –9  
Memphis  1 –5     2 –9  
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1998 Tulane Green Wave football team represented Tulane University in the 1998 college football season. The Green Wave finished with a record of 12 wins and no losses, one of only two NCAA Division 1-A teams to complete the season undefeated, the other being the BCS champion Tennessee Volunteers.

Despite finishing undefeated, the Green Wave were not considered for a BCS game, let alone a berth in the 1999 Fiesta Bowl—that year's national title game—because it was felt they had not played a legitimate schedule. They did not play a single ranked team all season, and the only Automatic Qualifying conference member on their schedule was a Rutgers team that finished tied for sixth in the Big East. They defeated Brigham Young University in the Liberty Bowl. The Green Wave finished the season ranked seventh in the nation in both the AP Poll and Coaches' Poll—in both cases, its highest rankings in school history since the 1939 Tulane football season when they were ranked No. 5 in the AP Poll.

The Green Wave won all of their games by six points or more. The combined 538 points set a single-season school record.[1]

Schedule

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 5 6:00 PM at Cincinnati Nippert Stadium • Cincinnati W 52–34   20,721
September 12 7:00 PM at SMU* Cotton Bowl • Dallas W 31–21   12,316
September 26 2:30 PM Navy* Louisiana Superdome • New Orleans W 42–24   19,371
October 3 2:30 PM Southern Miss No. 25 Louisiana Superdome • New Orleans (Battle for the Bell) W 21–7   32,527
October 17 2:30 PM Louisvilledagger No. 24 Louisiana Superdome • New Orleans FSN W 28–22   26,217
October 24 11:00 AM at Rutgers* No. 22 Rutgers Stadium • Piscataway, New Jersey W 52–24   20,714
October 31 2:30 PM SW Louisiana* No. 19 Louisiana Superdome • New Orleans W 72–20   25,177
November 7 1:00 PM at Memphis No. 15 Liberty Bowl • Memphis, Tennessee W 41–31   18,192
November 14 12:00 PM at Army No. 14 Michie Stadium • West Point, New York W 49–35   39,083
November 21 2:30 PM Houston No. 12 Louisiana Superdome • New Orleans FSN W 48–20   26,978
November 26 2:30 PM Louisiana Tech* No. 11 Louisiana Superdome • New Orleans W 63–30   37,391
December 31 12:30 PM vs. BYU* No. 10 Liberty Bowl • Memphis, Tennessee (Liberty Bowl) ESPN W 41–27   52,197
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Central Time.

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Team players in the NFL

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL Team
Shaun KingQuarterback250Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Dennis O'Sullivan Long Snapper - - New York Jets / Houston Texans[4]

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References

  1. ↑ Notre Dame has been treated well during the BCS era, ESPN, March 22, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Tulane University - 1998". College Football Reference. Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved October 11, 2012.
  3. ↑ "1998 Season in Review". Tulane University Department of Athletics. July 29, 1999. Retrieved October 11, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Dennis O'Sullivan: Career Stats at NFL.com". www.nfl.com. Retrieved 2016-08-27.
  5. ↑ https://www.pro-football-reference.com/draft/1999.htm
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