The college football bowl season is now in full swing with five games on Saturday and the Tulane Green Wave and the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin Cajuns will be playing on ESPN at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and the matchup will be starting up at 9 PM and will be streaming live on the WatchESPN website.
Tulane will have some nice pedigree with Nick Montana at quarterback and Louisiana-Lafayette will make their best attempt to stop the passing game from the Green Wave and the matchup will be a New Orleans game in school teams and location and Louisiana-Lafayette comes in as the Sun Belt conference winners tied with Arkansas State after losing to South Alabama and the team is trying to get its ninth win of the season and that would be a school record and quarterback Terrance Broadway comes in with an injury after missing the final game of the season and there is a chance that he could start. Montana could be the man to start for Tulane and while they did not get over 200 yards in two of their last four games of the season, they also lost three of four and now Montana comes in after the team went 5-5 in his games and he had 14 touchdowns this season and Broadway comes into the game as one of the most underrated players at his position, as the team was averaging over 40 points per game with him under center.
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Tulane hits its first bowl game in a decade and don't have to travel anywhere and the all LA matchup has the team coming in with seven wins out of Conference USA, where they went 5-3 and the team is coming in after a loss against Rice in the final game of the season and while they are only scoring 25 points per game, the team is ranked 19th in points against with 21 points allowed per game. The team got over 1,600 passing yards from Montana this season and the team won four in a row at one point this season and finished with three losses in four weeks, including a win over UTEP in which they scored 45 points and over the past two losses they have only scored 20 points and now in the New Orleans Bowl they look to get back on track.
Louisiana comes in after losing to South Alabama and Broadway likely will get the start as long as he is ready and they are ranked 31st in points scored this season with 34 points per game. The team is averaging over 400 total yards per game and have lost their last two after winning eight in a row and those wins are bordered by two two-game losing streaks and the last win for the team was on the road against Georgia State. The team lost tough games against Kansas State and Arkansas and now they have the chance to end the season on a high note.