12:45- Tulane defense is playing fundamentally sound football, not missing any tackles. After SE Louisiana started to build a drive Tulane forced a sack and loss of yards on screen plays to force a 4th & 27 and force a punt. A touchdown here could put this game away for Tulane
11:34- With a 5 yard run, Forte brings his total for the game to 252 yards, an all time single game rushing record for Tulane
9:35- Tulane had to punt, but Scelfo completed two passes, both for first downs. At this point, with the passing game, you try and look for any positive. SE Louisiana will start its drive at the 20 yard line
7:53- Tulane forces yet another punt. On third downs, Tulane has been great today. This is a huge improvement over the last 2 games. Never mind, SE Louisiana goes for a fake punt and run, but Tulane sniffs it out perfectly. Dumb play on the part of the Lions. They had been getting stops on defense recently, and now that they did this deep in their own territory. Now Tulane can put points on the board without driving.
4:25- Tulane turns the great field position (starting on the Lion 30) to seven easy points. It was capped by an 11 yard touchdown. This game is all but over. Although with Tulane, you can never be sure. Fifth TD score for Forte. If college fantasy football was a real thing I can't even calculate Forte's fantasy numbers this week. Through the roof. 35-20 Tulane
By the way, SE Louisiana is 4 -15 on third conversions so far. That is almost as important as Forte's 281 rush yards and 5 touchdowns. Well not really, but it is definitely the 2nd most important statistic of the day. That is the key to the Green Wave defense so far
2:28- On 4 &7, with Tulane looking to put this game away, Babin completes a pass and as his player heads for the end zone, he coughs it up on the 4 yard line and Tulane recovers. Expect Forte to just run out the clock now.
2:03- Just when this game looks over, Forte runs for a 2 or 3 yards and gets stuffed, only the pile pushes him for another 7 yards, first down Tulane! All of a sudden, a SE Louisiana player comes running out of the pile with the ball and on instant replay during the pile push he ripped the ball from Forte, and now the Lions only have 14 yards to go for a TD. This game may begin to get interesting again.
1:57- First play for the Lions, and Babin throws a ball that bounces off the hands of a Tulane player and into the hands of a Lions WR in the end zone. TD SE Louisiana. 35-27 Tulane. One would assume the Lions will try an onside kick now to give themselves a chance to tie this game
1:57- They go for the onside kick, and Tulane quickly recovers with no drama. Now, expect Forte to run out the clock. Unless he fumbles of course. The Lions have two timeouts, so one first down should put this game away
1:48- Forte runs for 7 yards, burning one Lion TO, then an encroachment call is made and the Green Wave have a first down. This one is over. Tulane now can just take knees and this game will be over. After three games, Toledo finally has his first win of the season. Not the prettiest win, but a win is a win and I am sure Toledo will take it.
End of game notes: 303 yards for Forte, a C-USA single game rushing record
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Forte is incredible when he has blocking. Mark it down -- this guy's going to play in the NFL.
It's nice to see the Wave playing well and getting their first win of the season. I really think it was necessary for the team to play a beatable opponent, so they could just play their style of football and get their confidence up.
Always good to get a win, even if its against a I-AA team. Forte was incredible indeed.
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