Tulane quarterback Jake Retzlaff does not care that Thursday night’s game at Texas-San Antonio is in October. November arrives Saturday, and he considers this the first step in the hardest month of the year.

“You see the giants get knocked down,” he said. “The better your record is, the bigger the target is on your back, so we have to put the same size target or a bigger target on our opponent’s back and know every game’s a big game and every team needs to feel us when we show up.”

The Green Wave (6-1, 3-0 American Conference) certainly has a gigantic opportunity in front of it . If it keeps winning, it will lock up a record fourth consecutive appearance in the league championship game and put itself in prime position to compete for a College Football Playoff spot on the first Friday

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