Tulane defeated Duke 34-27 Saturday night before a sellout crowd of 30,000 at Yulman Stadium on Saturday night.

The win improved Tulane's record to 3-0. It's only the third time in the last 50 years that Tulane has won its first three of the season. The Wave also did it in 2022 and 1998.

Here are three things we learned from the game:

Darian who?

Jake Retzlaff upstaged Darian Mensah in the former Green Wave quarterback's much-anticipated return to Tulane. The BYU transfer thoroughly outplayed Mensah with a breakout performance before a national television audience.

The Blue Devils had no answer for Retzlaff's dual-threat skills. He completed 15 of 23 passes for 245 yards and ran for 111 yards and a school-record four touchdowns. He scored on runs of 19, 6, 20 and 11 yards, mostly on r

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