Tulane Football Falls at Ole Miss, 61-21

Saturday, September 18

Oxford, Miss

7 p.m.

Tulane University

1-2 , 0-0

Ole Miss

3-0 , 0-0

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

Tulane

Ole Miss

Sep 19, 2021 | Football

Box Score

OXFORD, Miss. – The Tulane University football team suffered a 61-21 setback Saturday night to 16th-ranked Ole Miss inside Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

The game was delayed for an hour and 45 minutes due to lightening in the area. With the loss, Tulane falls to 1-2 on the year, while Ole Miss improved to 3-0.

"Well congratulations to Ole Miss they did an excellent job," head coach Willie Fritz said. "(They) really were physical and they stretched the field like we knew they would. They are a very impressive team. For us to be able to compete and have an opportunity to win a game like that, we got to play really well. I don't think we played very good and I'm disappointed in that. I thought we prepared extremely well, but today it didn't look like it."

Tulane was outgained 707-305 by Ole Miss. The Rebels also had a 41-14 advantage in first downs.

"As a defense you always want to get off the field as quick as possible," Tulane linebacker Kevin Henry said. "We couldn't get off the field. They just kept going and it wore on us. We just need to keep fighting. At the end of the day, we have to find a way to get off the field on third downs."

Freshman quarterback Michael Pratt finished the game by going 10-of-18 through the air for 166 yards. He also threw for a pair of touchdowns. Pratt has now thrown a touchdown pass in 13 straight games.

With his two touchdown scores Pratt now has 27 for his career which is tied for ninth in program history.

Defensively for the Green Wave, Tulane junior safety Macon Clark led the way with a career-high 12 tackles (eight solo).

The Rebels scored on their first two offensive series of the game and quickly opened up a 13-0 lead with 6:41 to go in the first quarter.

The Green Wave fought back with a five-play, 33-yard drive to get on the scoreboard. Carroll capped the drive as he plunged in from a yard out to cut the Rebels lead to 13-7 with 3:40 remaining in the game. Tulane's scoring drive was setup after junior linebacker Nick Anderson forced a fumble.

The six-point deficit was as close as the Green Wave would get for the remainder of the game. Ole Miss reeled off touchdown drives on its next four drives to open up a 40-14 lead in the first half.

Tulane did add a touchdown before the end of the first half to trim Ole Miss lead to 40-21. Pratt found junior wide receiver Shae Wyatt for a 37-yard touchdown pass. Wyatt's touchdown grab was his first at Tulane.

The Rebels put the game out of reach in the third quarter, as they outscored the Green Wave 21-0 and held Tulane to just 31 yards of total offense in the frame.

Ole Miss quarterback Matt Corral led the way for the Rebels as he accounted for seven total touchdowns (three passing and four rushing).

"We have to come back and get back to the drawing board," Wyatt said. "Just because we took a beating today doesn't mean that the rest of the season is going to go this way."

Tulane returns to action on Saturday, Sept. 25, as it welcomes UAB to Yulman Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. and will be aired on ESPN+.

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