The 1998 Tulane Green Wave football team represented

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in the

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. The Green Wave finished with a record of 12 wins and no losses, one of only two NCAA

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teams to complete the season undefeated, the other being the BCS champion

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. It was the third undefeated and untied season in school history. Despite finishing undefeated, the Green Wave were not considered for a BCS game, let alone a berth in the 1999 Fiesta Bowl—that year's national title game—because it was felt their

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was too weak to justify a berth in a higher-tier bowl. They did not play a single ranked team all season, and the only

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member on their schedule was a

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team that finished tied for sixth in the

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. They defeated

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in the

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. The Green Wave finished the season ranked seventh in the nation in both the

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and Coaches' Poll—in both cases, its highest rankings in school history since the 1939 Tulane football season when they were ranked No. 5 in the AP Poll. The Green Wave won all of their games by six points or more. The combined 538 points set a single-season school record.

Personnel

Coaching staff

Roster

Schedule

Rankings

Game Summaries

at Cincinnati

at SMU

Navy

Southern Miss

Louisville

at Rutgers

SW Louisiana

at Memphis

at Army

Houston

Louisiana Tech

vs. BYU

Team players in the NFL

References

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Tulane Green Wave football seasons Conference USA football champion seasons Liberty Bowl champion seasons College football undefeated seasons

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