Tulane Study, Part 2: How SMU Shut Down The Green Wave

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How did SMU shut down Makhi Hughes and the Tulane offense? (Tulane athletics)

“Uncertainty” has been the name of this game. Keeping track of postseason rosters seems to get crazier every year, but this one takes the cake, as Tulane gets so little media attention, relative to a program like Tech. It makes sense, with the Saints in the same city and LSU being a national powerhouse, but boy, it makes stuff tough for schmucks like me. I followed Tulane message boards and Twitter X feeds just to find that even big fans of the program were in the dark about things. While Tech’s roster at least sorted itself out piecemeal, Tulane’s was a massive question mark until they began bowl practice on Monday. And then getting actual participation details from that practice meant finding a subscription article and then bypassing it with the old “hammer ESC to circumvent the pay wall” trick.

So, with about a week to go before the game, we get decent grip on on Tulane’s roster turbulence:

That’s who’s missing. Then there are the guys who entered the portal and looked to be gone, but are in fact returning for the game:

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