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Tulsa put on a show in stunning 60-10 rout of Tulane
Tulsa looked downright scary. A complete ambush of Tulane that nobody saw coming.
With Baylor Hayes excelling on the trigger, the Golden Hurricane obliterated the Tulane Green Wave in an epic beatdown — a 60-10 victory on Saturday afternoon in front of 27,539 stunned fans at Yulman Stadium in New Orleans.
“Just shows you what this team is capable of. We’ve got to keep going,” said Tulsa coach Tre Lamb. “It was a huge win for us. I think we played just about perfect. Very proud of the guys.”
Hayes completed 26 of 32 passes for 338 yards and 4 touchdowns, with no interceptions. His main target was ManMan, aka Oran Singleton, who caught a career high 13 passes for 177 yards and 3 scores. Singleton leads Tulsa in receiving with 56 catches for 712 yards and 9 touchdowns.
“I think it brings confidence to the whole locker room,” Singleton said. “Now we’ve got that feeling that we can blow people out. We’re just going to feed off of this.”
Just as Hayes was in full throttle, so was the defense, which recorded an amazing six QB sacks on the way to a 60-3 fourth quarter lead. TU led 32-0 at half and never let u...