The city of New Orleans has overcome much adversity since Hurricane Katrina landed in August of 2005. The Tulane football team knows a thing or two about adversity as well.

Since 1949, Tulane has won just two conference championships (1998, 2022). They’ve also appeared in only 14 bowl games. The Green Wave and the good times have been rolling lately, though. They’ve made six bowl games in the past seven years, including a Cotton Bowl win in 2022.

There were a lot of losses that preceded that, however, and off-field hardships in the form of 2021’s Hurricane Ida (Tulane went 2-10 that year) and Katrina.

Fittingly, August 2005 is also when Patrick Durkin was born. The Joliet Catholic alum is currently the starting kicker for the Green Wave and he, too, knows a bit about adversity.

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