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 (1-2, 0-0 AAC) vs. NEW MEXICO (1-2, 0-0 MWC) Game Information GAME Date / Time: Saturday, Sept. 23, 12:35 pm (CT) Saturday, September 23, 2017 • 12:35 pm (CT) Site: Tulsa, Okla. #4 H.A. Chapman Stadium (30,000), Tulsa, Okla. Stadium: H.A. Chapman Stadium (30,000) TV:ESPN3 • Radio: Big Country 99.5 FM TV: ESPN3 Talent: Joel Meyers (pxp), Brian Kinchen (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 enrollment with 3,406 students, while New Mexico (analyst), Jeremie Poplin (sideline) has an enrollment of 27,353 students. Live Stats: TulsaHurricane.com • Tulsa averages 47.0 points per game, while New Mexico scores at a 26.7 clip. Series: Tulsa leads 5-2 • Tulsa ranks 3rd nationally for rushing at 363.7 yards per game, while the New First Meeting: Tulsa 34, New Mexico 27 Mexico defense ranks 7th against the run, only giving up 78.0 yards. (Nov. 8, 1986), Albuquerque, NM • The two teams are nearly identical in passing yardage, as Tulsa averages 185.3 Last Meeting: Tulsa 40, New Mexico 21 yards per game and New Mexico 185 yards. (Sept. 12, 2015), Albuquerque, NM THE TULSA-NEW MEXICO SERIES . TULSA 1-2, 0-0 The American • This is the 8th meeting between Tulsa and New Mexico, as the Golden Head Coach: Philip Montgomery Hurricane lead the series 5-2. (Tarleton State '95) • Tulsa has won the last three games, including the last time the teams met in 3rd year at Tulsa Albuquerque in 2015 with a 40-21 Tulsa win. Career Record: 17-12 (3 years) • Tulsa is 2-1 at home against New Mexico, winning the first game in 1989, 35-33, TU Record: same losing the next game in 1996, 34-23, and then defeating the Lobos in 2008 by a score of 56-14. NEW MEXICO 1-2, 0-1 MWC • Tulsa has a 20.8 margin of victory in the 5 wins, and has won the last three Head Coach: Bob Davie contests by a 31.7 margin. Youngstown State '77 6th year at New Mexico QUICK HITS . Career Record: 63-63 (11 years) • D'Angelo Brewer is ranked 4th nationally for most rushing yards with 447 yards UNM Record: 28-38 (6 years) for a 149.0 game average, which ranks 6th in the nation. • Brewer has the nation's top rushing performance this season with 262 yards coming against Louisiana. Tulsa Coaching Staff • Tulsa's 66 points scored vs. Louisiana is tied for the 3rd most points in the NCAA Philip Montgomery Head Coach this year, only behind Oregon's 77 and Missouri's 72. Bill Young (PB) Co-Defensive Coord./DL • Tulsa has had back-to-back 400+ rushing games, including 424 yards vs. Brian Norwood Co-Defensive Coord./Saf. Louisiana and 423 yards at Toledo. Jermial Ashley Defensive Line • Senior linebacker Craig Suits returned his second career INT for a touchdown at Mike Bloesch Offensive Line Toledo (37 yards) … his first career INT return for a TD came in 2015. Aaron Fletcher Cornerbacks Joseph Gillespie Linebackers Justin Hill Running Backs TULSA GOLDEN HURRICANE NEW MEXICO LOBOS August September Calvin Lowry Receivers & Special Teams 31 @ #10 Oklahoma State L 24-59 2 ABILENE CHRISTIAN W 38-14 Beau Trahan (PB) Quarterbacks 9 NEW MEXICO STATE L 28-30 Jordan Navjar (PB) Offensive Quality Control September 14 @ Boise State* L 14-28 Luke Olson (PB) Defensive Quality Control 9 LOUISIANA W 66-42 23 @ Tulsa 12:30 pm 16 @ Toledo L 51-54 30 AIR FORCE* Tulsa -UNM Game Promotions 23 NEW MEXICO 12:30 pm ALZHEIMERS AWARENESS DAY … the Alzheimer's 30 NAVY* TBA October Walk takes place at 9 am Saturday on the TU campus, 14 @ Fresno State* followed by the game at 12:35 pm … ALZ walkers can October 20 COLORADO STATE* get special discounted game tickets through promo code 7 @ Tulane* TBA 28 @ Wyoming* when pre-regiserting for walk or by receiving a voucher 14 HOUSTON* (Homecoming) TBA on walk day. 21 @ UConn* TBA November HURRICANE ALLEY … Hurricane Alley Opens at 9:30 27 (Fri) @ SMU* 8:00 pm 4 UTAH STATE* am with music, bounce houses, face painting, the beer 11 @ Texas A&M garden and all other activities beginning at this time… November 17 UNLV* Team Walk takes place at approximately 10:15 am. 3 (Fri) MEMPHIS* 7:00 pm 24 @ San Diego State* PRE-SALE TICKETS … tickets for the Tulsa-New 15 (Th) @ USF* 7:00 pm Mexico game can be purchased in advance for $15, $30 25 TEMPLE* TBA and $40. Gameday prices are $20, $35, $45. *American Athletic Conference Games *Mountain West 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 17-12 overall head coaching EAST DIVISION record with the Hurricane. USF 0-0 3-0 • Montgomery completed his second season in 2016 leading the Tulsa football UCF 0-0 1-0 program to a 10-3 record. Cincinnati 0-0 2-1 • He became the 29th head coach in school history on Dec. 11, 2014. Temple 0-0 2-1 • Montgomery claimed his first career head coaching victory in the 2015Tulsa UConn 0-0 1-1 season opener with a 47-44 overtime win over FAU. ECU 0-0 0-3 • In his first year, Montgomery led Tulsa to six wins and to the 2015 Camping World WEST DIVISION Independence Bowl. Navy 1-0 2-0 • Montgomery is the fourth coach in school history to take his first two teams to a Houston 0-0 2-0 Bowl game, and has coached 11 teams to bowl games in his 14 years as a coach. Memphis 0-0 2-0 • He became the fifth Tulsa head coach to lead his first team to a bowl game. SMU 0-0 2-1 • Before coming to Tulsa, he spent seven years at Baylor, where he spent the final Tulsa 0-0 1-2 three seasons as the offensive coordinator/QB coach. Tulane 0-1 1-2 • Under his guidance, Baylor led the nation in total offense and scoring offense in each of his final two seasons. The American Schedule • Before moving to Baylor, he spent five years at Houston, also under Art Briles. THIS WEEK (Sept. 23) • Before moving to the college ranks, he was the offensive coordinator for one year *Temple @ USF (S21) at Denton (Texas) HS … before that spent six years at Stephenville HS, where *Cincinnati @ Navy he was a part of back-to-back Class 4A state titles in 1998 and 1999. Arkansas State @ SMU Southern Illinois @ Memphis FIRSTS . UCF @ Maryland • Eleven freshmen have seen their first collegiate playing time this season, including Texas Tech @ Houston 5 true freshmen,including one walk-on, and 6 red-shirt freshmen. Army @ Tulane • Four players made their first career start in the season opener – QB Chad New Mexico @ Tulsa President, WR Josh Stewart, DT Shemarr Robinson and DB Manny Bunch. *ECU @ UConn (S24) • In the third game at Toledo, true freshman defensive tackle Garrett Flanary made his first career start. LAST WEEK (Sept.16) • It took true freshman Shamari Brooks only 3 games to have his first career 100-yard @ USF 47, Illinois 23 rushing game … he had 141 yards and 3 TDs at Toledo in a reserve role. @ Temple 29, Massachusetts 21 • Reserve RB Corey Taylor II, who gained only 4 yards on 5 carries as a true @ Virginia 38, UConn 18 freshman in 2016, had his first career 100+ rushing game with 111 yards for a 5.6 @ Memphis 48, UCLA 45 average in the opener at Oklahoma State. Virginia Tech 64, @ ECU 17 @ TCU 56, SMU 36 OFFENSIVELY IN THE MONTGOMERY ERA . @ Oklahoma 56, Tulane 14 @ Toledo 54, Tulsa 51 • In 28 games under Philip Montgomery, Tulsa has scored over 40 points 19 @ Houston 38, Rice 3 times and has posted a 15-4 record when doing so. Cincinnati 21, @ Miami (Ohio) 17 • Tulsa came into the 2017 season averaging 39.8 points over the previous two years, including 37.2 points in 2015 and 42.5 points in 2016. NEXT WEEK (Sept. 30) • Tulsa has gone over 500 yards of total offense in 19 games under Montgomery. *Memphis @ UCF • The Golden Hurricane has gone over 600 yards 7 times under Montgomery. *UConn @ SMU • Tulsa has had 10 300+ yard rushing games in the Montgomery era, with eight *USF @ ECU coming in 2016 and two this season. *Houston @ Temple • Tulsa has had two 400+ rushing games under Montgomery, both coming in back-to- *Navy @ Tulsa back games this year. Marshall @ Cincinnati • In the Montgomery era, Tulsa has 99 offensive scoring drives out of 203 possessions in regulation under two minutes, including 35 under one minute … that's 49-percent of the time that Tulsa's offensive scoring drives have taken under two minutes. • Tulsa has seven 50+ scoring games in the last 17 games under Montgomery, dating back to the 2015 Camping World Independence Bowl when Tulsa scored 52 points. • The Hurricane had four 50+ scoring games in 2016, the most since four 50+ scoring games in the 2010 season and before that 6 50+ games in 2008.