Tulane's Maurice Turner Runs 74 Yards to Beat Southern Miss
Maurice Turner had 12 carries. Two of them were touchdowns, and the second one, a 74-yard run with 5:26 left, is the reason Tulane won 24-21.
Southern Miss had the better of the middle of this one. Landry Lyddy threw touchdown passes of 32 yards to Davis Dalton and 14 yards to Mario Sanders in the second quarter, and the visitors tied it twice at 7-7 and 14-14. Then Lyddy found Sanders again from 22 yards out early in the third, and Southern Miss led 21-14 going into the fourth quarter. It was the only lead the Golden Eagles held, and it lasted until the fourth quarter was more than half gone.
Tulane answered with a Cooper Helmke 26-yard field goal at 8:35 to make it 21-17, and then Turner broke loose. Take away that one run and Tulane is still chasing a four-point deficit with the clock running down. Instead the Green Wave scored the last ten points of the game. Turner finished with 200 yards, and 117 of them came on his two scoring runs (43 and 74 yards), so the other ten carries totaled 83. Tulane ran 46 times for 285 yards and threw for 164, with one interception from Kadin Semonza (12 of 24 for 129 yards).
The yardage was close (449 for Tulane, 401 for Southern Miss) and the Golden Eagles did not turn it over once. They just could not stop one runner. Tulane is 2-2 and Southern Miss falls to 1-3.
For fantasy purposes, it is a good day to own the Tulane back and a decent one to own Lyddy, whose three touchdowns were three of his four on the season.