2017 TULSA FOOTBALL GAME NOTES Tulsa Athletic Media Relations • 800 S. Tucker Drive • Tulsa, OK 74104 Facebook: /TulsaHurricane and /TulsaFootball • Twitter:@TulsaHurricane and @TulsaFootball Instagram: TulsaHurricanePics • Website: www.TulsaHurricane.com TULSA (1-5, 0-2 AAC) vs. HOUSTON (4-1, 2-0 AAC) Game Information GAME Date / Time: Saturday, Oct. 14, 3:01 pm (CT) Saturday, October 14, 2017 • 3:01 pm (CT) Site: Tulsa, Okla. #7 H.A. Chapman Stadium (30,000), Tulsa, Okla. Stadium: H.A. Chapman Stadium (30,000) HOMECOMING • TV:ESPNews • Radio: Big Country 99.5 FM TV: ESPNews Talent: Shawn Kenney (pxp), Al Groh (analyst) THE STORYLINES . Radio: Big Country 99.5 FM • Tulsa is in its 118th season of football this year. Talent: Bruce Howard (pxp), Rick Couri • Tulsa has the smallest FBS undergraduate enrollment with 3,406 students, while (analyst), Jeremie Poplin (sideline) Houston has an enrollment of 43,770 students. Live Stats: TulsaHurricane.com • The two teams are averaging similar numbers in total offense … Tulsa averages Series: Houston leads 23-18 448.2 yards per game, while Houston has a 433.0 average. First Meeting: Tulsa 28, Houston 21 • For Tulsa, the Hurricane rushes for 269 yards and passes for 179.2, while (Dec. 2, 1950), Houston, Texas Houston throws for 268.0 yards and runs for 165 yards. Last Meeting: #12 Houston 38, Tulsa 31 • Tulsa has a 50-38-3 record on Homecoming … Tulsa has faced Houston 5 times (Oct. 15, 2016), Houston, Texas on Homecoming, but this is the first time since 1969. 1-5, 0-2 The American THE TULSA-HOUSTON SERIES . TULSA Head Coach: Philip Montgomery • This is the 42nd meeting between Tulsa and Houston. (Tarleton State '95) • Houston leads the series 23-18 and has won the last three contests. 3rd year at Tulsa • UH won last year's meeting, holding off Tulsa in the last second, for a 38-31 win. Career Record: 17-15 (3 years) • Tulsa's last win in the series came at Houston, 41-7, in 2012. TU Record: same • The series is tied 9-9 in games played in Tulsa. QUICK HITS . HOUSTON 4-1, 2-0 The American Head Coach: Major Applewhite • Tulsa has had 21 freshmen (true or red-shirt) play in at least one game this (Texas '02) season. 1st year at Houston • D'Angelo Brewer is only the 4th Tulsa player with 3,000+ rushing yards. Career Record: 4-2 (1+ year) • RS-freshman QB Luke Skipper had the 5th most passing yards for a Tulsa UH Record: same freshman in school history with 256 yards at Tulane, and the most for a Tulsa freshman since Josh Blankenship's 271 yards in 1999. Tulsa Coaching Staff • Tulsa had back-to-back 400+ rushing games, including 424 yards vs. Louisiana and 423 yards at Toledo. Philip Montgomery Head Coach • In the last 3 games, Tulsa had a combined possession time of only 54:03 Bill Young (PB) Co-Defensive Coord./DL compared to 125:57 for the three option opponents it faced. Brian Norwood Co-Defensive Coord./Saf. • Sophomore Keenen Johnson had a career-high 131 receiving yards vs. Tulane. Jermial Ashley Defensive Line • True freshman RB has the 7th-most rushing yards for a Tulsa freshman in Mike Bloesch Offensive Line school history with 393 yards. Aaron Fletcher Cornerbacks Joseph Gillespie Linebackers Justin Hill Running Backs TULSA GOLDEN HURRICANE HOUSTON COUGARS August September Calvin Lowry Receivers & Special Teams 31 @ #10 Oklahoma St. (FOX) L 24-59 9 @ Arizona W 19-16 Beau Trahan (PB) Quarterbacks 16 RICE W 38-3 Jordan Navjar (PB) Offensive Quality Control September 23 TEXAS TECH L 24-27 Luke Olson (PB) Defensive Quality Control 9 LOUISIANA (ESPN3 W 66-42 30 @ Temple* W 20-13 16 @ Toledo (ESPN3) L 51-54 GAME INFORMATION FOR 23 NEW MEXICO (ESPN3) L 13-16 October HOMECOMING vs. HOUSTON 30 NAVY* (ESPNU) L 21-31 7 SMU* W 35-22 THE GAME: Tulsa vs. Houston on Oct. 7 is Homecom- 14 @ Tulsa* 3:00 pm ing for Tulsa … for Homecoming information go to www. October 19 MEMPHIS* 7:00 pm 7 @ Tulane* (ESPNU) L 28-62 28 @ USF* TUalumni.com 14 HOUSTON* (ESPNews) 3:01 pm PRE-SALE TICKETS … tickets for the Tulsa-Houston 21 @ UConn* (ESPNU) 11:00 am November game can be purchased in advance for $15, $30 and $40 27 (Fri) @ SMU* 8:00 pm 4 ECU* … Gameday prices are $20, $35, $45 18 @ Tulane* HURRICANE ALLEY … Hurricane Alley Opens at 12 pm November 24 NAVY* am with music, bounce houses, face painting, the beer 3 (Fri) MEMPHIS* 7:00 pm garden and all other activities beginning at this time… 15 (Th) @ USF* 7:00 pm Team Walk takes place at approximately 12:45 pm. 25 TEMPLE* TBA *American Athletic Conference Games *American Athletic Conference Games 2017 Tulsa Football Game Notes • page 2 PHILIP MONTGOMERY IN THIRD SEASON LEADING 2017 American Standings TULSA FOOTBALL PROGRAM . Team American ALL • Philip Montgomery is in his third season with a 17-15 overall head coaching EAST DIVISION record with the Hurricane. USF 2-0 5-0 • Montgomery completed his second season in 2016 leading the Tulsa football UCF 2-0 4-0 program to a 10-3 record. Temple 1-2 3-3 • He became the 29th head coach in school history on Dec. 11, 2014. ECU 1-2 1-5 • Montgomery claimed his first career head coaching victory in the 2015Tulsa Cincinnati 0-2 2-4 season opener with a 47-44 overtime win over FAU. UConn 0-3 1-4 • In his first year, Montgomery led Tulsa to six wins and to the 2015 Camping World WEST DIVISION Independence Bowl. Navy 3-0 5-0 • Montgomery is the fourth coach in school history to take his first two teams to a Houston 2-0 4-1 Bowl game, and has coached 11 teams to bowl games in his 14 years as a coach. Memphis 1-1 4-1 • He became the fifth Tulsa head coach to lead his first team to a bowl game. SMU 1-1 4-1 • Before coming to Tulsa, he spent seven years at Baylor, where he spent the final Tulane 1-1 3-2 three seasons as the offensive coordinator/QB coach. Tulsa 0-2 1-5 • Under his guidance, Baylor led the nation in total offense and scoring offense in each of his final two seasons. • Before moving to Baylor, he spent five years at Houston, also under Art Briles. The American Schedule • Before moving to the college ranks, he was the offensive coordinator for one year THIS WEEK (Oct. 14) at Denton (Texas) HS … before that spent six years at Stephenville HS, where *ECU @ UCF *Cincinnati @ USF he was a part of back-to-back Class 4A state titles in 1998 and 1999. *UConn @ Temple *Houston @ Tulsa OFFENSIVELY IN THE MONTGOMERY ERA . *Navy @ Memphis • In 32 games under Philip Montgomery, Tulsa has scored over 40 points 19 Tulane @ FIU times and has posted a 15-4 record when doing so. • Tulsa came into the 2017 season averaging 39.8 points over the previous two NEXT WEEK (Oct. 21) years, including 37.2 points in 2015 and 42.5 points in 2016. *Memphis @ Houston (O19) • Tulsa has gone over 500 yards of total offense in 18 games under Montgomery. *UCF @ Navy • The Golden Hurricane has gone over 600 yards 7 times under Montgomery. *SMU @ Cincinnati • Tulsa has 10 300+ yard rushing games in the Montgomery era, with eight *Tulsa @ UConn coming in 2016 and two this season. *USF @ Tulane • Tulsa has had two 400+ rushing games under Montgomery, both coming in Temple @ Army back-to-back games this year. BYU @ ECU • Tulsa has seven 50+ scoring games in the last 19 games under Montgomery, dating back to the 2015 Camping World Independence Bowl when Tulsa scored LAST WEEK (Oct. 7) 52 points. *Memphis 70, @ UConn 31 • The Hurricane had four 50+ scoring games in 2016, the most since four 50+ *UCF 51, @ Cincinnati 23 scoring games in the 2010 season and before that 6 50+ games in 2008. *Temple 34, @ ECU 10 *@ Houston 35, SMU 22 BREWER BECOMES ONLY 4th TULSA PLAYER TO *@ Tulane 62, Tulsa 28 SURPASS 3,000 CAREER RUSHING YARDS . • D’Angelo Brewer become just the 4th running back in school history to rush for over 3,000 career yards on just his 4th carry against Navy. • Brewer now has 3,084 career yards and 20 touchdowns on 608 carries. • He jumped from 9th place to 4th place on the school’s all-time rushing chart with his 262-yard rushing performance against Louisiana in the second game of the season. • He came into that Louisiana game with 2,433 career rushing yards and ended with 2,695 career yards. • Brewer also went over 100 yards this year with 152 rushing yards against Toledo and 131 yards vs. New Mexico. • Brewer is now 431 yards away from moving up any further on the career rushing list … Trey Watts (2010-13) is in third place with 3,515 yards. • Brewer has 12 career 100-yard rushing games … he is tied with Gordon Brown (1984-85) for the 4th most 100-yard rushing games in school history … trailing Micheal Gunter (16; 1980-83), Tarrion Adams (16; 2005-08), and Trey Watts (15; In 2017-18, all University of Tulsa 2010-13). athletic teams will be wearing a special patch on their uniforms in memory of former University President Steadman Upham (2004-2016), who passed away in July 2017. 2017 Tulsa Football Game Notes • page 3 SKIPPER MAKES AN APPEARANCE .