The Tulane Green Wave is playing in the American Athletic Conference championship game for the second straight year, this time at home against the North Texas Mean Green.

Tulane lost the game to Army last year, but this time the stakes are even higher: With Tulane ranked No. 20 and North Texas at No. 24 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings, the winner almost certainly is headed to the playoff for the first time in either’s history.

It’s also an interesting matchup in that both teams’ coaches are headed for Power Four conference jobs afte

r the season. Eric Morris of North Texas has accepted the job at Oklahoma State, and Tulane’s Jon Sumrall is headed to Florida. Both will try to keep their tenures going at these schools for at least one more game, in the College Football Pla

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