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Southern Miss suffers devastating 66-24 loss to Tulane

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n the first regular season game of The Battle for the Bell since 2010, Tulane dominated Southern Miss 66-24 to take the Bell back to New Orleans.

“I’m embarrassed,” Head Coach Scotty Walden said. “Our team’s embarrassed. That’s not the way we want to lose and I want to apologize to our fans. That don’t make it better.

The only thing I know to do is we

have to really correct what we’re doing and we’ve got to see if it’s an effort issue on film or if it’s an assignment or scheme issue.”

Tulane scored the most points by either team in the rivalry’s 34-game history. With the loss, Southern Miss drops to 0-3 for the first time since 2013.

Southern Miss could not stop Tulane’s rushing attack. The Green Wave carried the ball 54 times for

430 yards and seven touchdowns.

Last season, the most the Golden Eagles allowed on the ground was 210 yards against Mississippi State.

“They had a really good game,” defensive back Ky’el Hemby said.

“He [Cameron Carroll, Tulane RB] is a really good physical, strong running back, but I feel as though we just didn’t execute as we were supposed to. No shade to him -- he can run that thing -- but I feel like we

just didn’t show up.”

Southern Miss did not trail the whole game. The team got off to an early start, going up 14-0 early in the first quarter. On the first drive of the game, running back Dee Baker ran for 37 yards and a Tulane pass interference set up a two-yard

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Southern Miss releases procedures for game day events CHARLIE LUTTRELL SPROTS EDITOR n Aug. 25, the Southern Miss Department of Athletics announced special game day procedures for the 2020 football season. The procedures address various safety concerns of COVID-19 and reflect new guidelines put in place from Gov. Tate Reeves’ recent executive order on college football.

Fans should expect these conditions at Southern Miss football home games this year: -There will be a 25% seating capacity at M.M. Roberts Stadium, or approximately 9,000-

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10,000 fans, allowed into the stadium each game.

-Individual tickets are currently not available for sale.

Fans are encouraged to buy season tickets to attend games.

Season tickets are also limited due to attendance restrictions.

-There are 1,000 tickets available for students to sit in the student section.

-Fans in attendance will be required to wear face coverings at entry and at all times in the stadium. Face coverings will be recommended while seated too.

-Fans who do not live in the same household will be required to socially distance from each other by at least six feet.

-All tailgating and social gatherings on campus will be prohibited before games.

-There will be a limit on cash transactions at concession stands. Cashless payment will be accepted and encouraged.

-Hand sanitizing stations will be placed throughout the stadium. There will be signage and floor decals to encourage proper social distancing in waiting zones.

These procedures will apply for the seven home games at M.M. Roberts Stadium this year. The Southern Miss Golden Eagles will begin the season at home on Sep. 3 versus the University of South Alabama.

To read more information about game-days and to stay updated on the football season, visit www.southernmiss.com.

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Southern Miss Performing Arts gears up for new digital experiences BRIAN WINTERS EXECUTIVE EDITOR

he University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Performing and Visual Arts (SPVA) has recently announced its plans to revise its fall season line-up by offering immersive digital experiences to the community.

Although a trip to the theater may look a little different this season, the SPVA approaches the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic by offering virtual tours of art exhibitions, hosting outdoor dance concerts and broadcasting live theatrical performances.

“We have reimagined the experience,” director of the SPVA Stacy Reischman Fletcher said. “[We] are back and busy doing what we love to do, which is to create and share our exhibitions, dance concerts and theatrical productions for our audiences.”

The SPVA launched its virtual 2020 Biennial Faculty Show on Sep. 10, which features works of art created by the Art and Design faculty.

These virtual showrooms are open to

the public, as individuals are encouraged to immerse themselves in the arts from the safety and comfort of their own homes. By offering virtual tours, the school enables themselves to share their exhibits and events with individuals at both local and national levels.

“Rather than having physical gallery exhibitions this fall, we decided that it would be best to move our exhibitions online.,” Mark Rigsby, associate professor and gallery director, said. “I chose to see this not as a limitation, but as an opportunity to share our exhibits and events not only with the local community, but with audiences on a national scale.”

For dance, this semester has presented many new challenges, but the creativity of the dancers and fellow faculty members has been inspiring.

“We have built a new outdoor stage for our senior solos to be performed, and the juniors are working on an outdoor site specific concert,” Lauren Smith, Assistant Professor of Dance, said. “Both of these will be pre-recorded and streamed online for our audience[,] and we can’t wait to see how this ignites future dance making.”

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This is especially good news for junior and senior dance majors, who were afraid that the pandmeic meant they would be unable to complete their final choreographic projects.

Smith is similarly excited that her students will still be able to finish these projects in otherwise unusual circumstances.

“By allowing our students to still be able to embark on their junior and senior choreographic projects, we have come up with some alternative and exciting ways for people to view dance,” Smith said.

As a result of the ongoing pandemic, the Theatre program is also transitioning from live performances to live broadcasts. Technological ad-

vances in theatre have made it possible for the productions to continue in a socially-distanced manner with relative ease. The season started on Sept. 24 with Lauren Gunderson’s ‘The Revolutionists,’ and will continue with productions of ‘We’re Still Here’ and ‘Describe the Night’.

“Our performances and crew will be performing in real-time as the audience watches, just as in a regular theatre,” David Coley, Assistant Professor of Theatre, said. “Though our actors will be performing in separate spaces, our technology will bring together their performances.”

For the virtual showroom and more information regarding tickets for upcoming events, visit usm.edu/spva.

The Pride of Mississippi Marching Band adjusts during pandemic CHARLIE LUTRELL SPORTS EDITOR

n its 100th season, The Pride of Mississippi Marching Band has faced unprecedented challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.

After missing the first football game of the season, the band has returned to entertain in a different way.

In August, Conference USA and other collegiate conferences announced that university bands would be prohibited from marching on the field during this football season. Other band traditions like the Eagle Walk were also affected when Gov. Tate Reeves announced a ban on tailgating and all pregame gatherings.

On top of the new guidelines, the band faced challenges on how to safely conduct practices during the pandemic.

“We started with our preseason rehearsals being done entirely virtual,” Dr. Colin McKenzie, the Director of The Pride of Mississippi, said. “Normally the marching band has about a ten-day long, in-person intensive set of preseason rehearsals and we did not do that in person this year. That was a challenge by itself trying to figure out how to deliver that content in a virtual way.”

After in-person classes resumed on campus, the band only had eight days to prepare for its first game on Sep. 19. While the usual period of rehearsals consists of 12- to 14-hours of practice each day, the band only had an hour and a half of rehearsals each day to prepare. Despite the challenges, McKenzie says he is proud of how the students have persevered.

“Given all of that, I’m really, really proud of the way

that the students have handled it and responded to it,” McKenzie said.

Without being able to perform halftime shows or be on the field before games, the band decided to record videos of their performances and display them on the stadium’s video board. The band will show the same video before every game for the pregame performance,and then will produce a new video each week for halftime shows.

McKenzie says that each minute of videos takes the band around two and a half hours to produce. For the band’s first halftime show video on Sep. 26, McKenzie says the performance took over 17 hours to produce.

Despite all of the challenges, McKenzie says the band has tried to be optimistic.

“I think, rather than, kind of focus on the fact that it’s a bummer that some of these things are happening, what we’ve tried to do is embrace the positive things,” McKenzie said. “The fact that we’re able to do some of this stuff at all, the fact that we’re able to be together and making some music together at all, [that] there are groups that are not able to do that right now [...] so we’re trying to embrace those positive things more than focus on the negatives.”

Senior music education major John Hopkins also reflected similar optimism on the unusual season.

“It’s unfortunate that we can’t perform in the same way that we have, but I am very excited for what we’re doing this year,” Hopkins said. “We’re making some good changes and we’ve got some tricks up our sleeves. It’s been really exciting to be a part of it, and what’s really cool is that the leadership team has had more of a role this year than we’ve ever really had.”

Sophomore jazz studies and saxophone performance major Jeremiah Parker shared similar thoughts about leadership in the band. Parker is an assistant drum major this year, meaning he’s been privy to some of the changes

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“I think one thing is we’re trying to be a lot more proactive this year, especially granted the current situation with COVID[,] and we’re trying to think more ahead,” Parker said. “This is only my second year here[,] but I feel like the leadership is a lot more hands on and engaged with section members this year.”

Instead of sitting in their usual section in the lower bowl, the band is also now spread apart through three sections in the upper portion of the stadium. Hopkins describes the experience and difference of playing in the new sections.

“It’s a lot windier up there,” Hopkins said. “That’s the only difference. The perks for it are we can see the whole

field a lot better so we can really pay more attention to what’s going on in the game. It will get a lot windier up there, but other than that, it’s been pretty fine so far.”

Parker says he hopes things return to normal soon, but is excited about the band’s progression this year during COVID. “I’m really looking forward to maybe things transitioning a little towards normal,” Parker said. “However, I’m really excited to see how they continue to progress because I was fairly worried that going into this, they were just going to go with the expectations and what was expected. [...

We thought we] were going to have a dip in performance, but they’ve just come in and executed. I can’t wait to see them keep doing that and doing even better.”

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Laptop Loan Program aims to ‘meet the needs of students’ CARTER LISHEN PRINTZ REPORTER

tudents at the University of Southern Mississippi now have a greater chance at success in remote learning thanks to an initiative from the USM Foundation and the Coronavirus Response Implementation Team with their new Laptop Loan Program.

Sarah Mangrum, the Access Services and Assessments Librarian for Cook Library, is the face of the program. She handles the logistics of receiving laptop requests and communicating pickup with students.

“We knew there was a need,” Sarah Mangrum said. “I did not know how great that need was.”

Since Sep. 2, the program application has logged 154 laptop requests between the Hattiesburg and Gulf Park campuses, and has, as of writing, issued around 60 laptops to students.

With school back in session, some students without computer access have been able to once again rely on Cook Library, as the COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible to access earlier this year. However, many other students may not want to utilize public facilities to avoid COVID-19 exposure.

Regardless of the reason, many students, especially those medically or financially

affected by the pandemic, need assistance to access remote learning classes, which have become standard throughout this semester.

This led Magrum and Dr. Alison Gillespie, Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs, to start the Laptop Lending Program, designed to help overcome some of these hurdles and get students into a safe learning environment. “[The program aims to] provide technology to students who otherwise may not have it, and as a result, are having a challenge to possibly completing their coursework,” Gillespie said.

Gillespie was able to get the laptops as a member of the COVID-19 Response Implementation Team, a group of Southern Miss officials tasked with managing the ongoing public health crisis for the university. The Response team purchased computers to give to students with funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which the U.S. Congress passed shortly after the onset of the pandemic.

Other major contributors came to the forefront to help out students, too. The team was able to collect around 50 faculty trade-in computers from different academic departments. Once Gillespie realized the true scope of technological need from students, the Response team wrote for a grant from the USM Foundation. The Foundation, in turn, granted them $90,000, which let the Response team purchase 130 new Dell laptops loaded with antivirus and other

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security software.

Students who apply to borrow a laptop through the program can retrieve it from the Cook Library at the Hattiesburg campus, or at the Gulf Coast Library at the Gulf Park Ccampus. Both libraries will also offer curbside pickup for students at greater risk of or uncomfortable in coming into contact with COVID-19.

Gillespie said the response team plans to have more than 250 laptops available, but will adjust according to the needs of students. A shipment of 50 new laptops will become available soon for more students to borrow.

“This program makes [technology] accessible for everybody,” Mangrum added. “If you can’t afford a computer, this program takes down the barriers to that success, and they’re able to get that technology in their hands.”

Mangrum has heard students rave about how this program has helped them in just a short time.

“I’ve already seen the impact [of this program] through the gratefulness of the students,” Mangrum said. “They have been so appreciative just to be able to get access to technology.”

Southern Miss faculty offer public course on COVID-19 BRIAN WINTERS EXECUTIVE EDITOR free, online course that assists in understanding COVID-19 and other related pandemic topics is now available to the public, thanks to the work of faculty and staff at The University of Southern Mississippi.

‘Understanding the Pandemic: A COVID-19 Public Service Short Course’ became available on Canvas last week. It contains six modules: The History of Pandemics; Social and Economic Impact of Pandemics; Coronavirus and Epidemiology; Spread, Prevention and Treatment; Vaccines; and Personal Health and Wellness in a Pandemic. Each module is presented in a video presentation format by a Southern Miss faculty member whose expertise and academic focus is on the given topic.

The public service course is the

brainchild of Douglas Masterson Ph.D., Senior Associate Provost for Institutional Effectiveness and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Southern Miss.

When COVID-19 initially spread, he quickly realized there was a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding among the public about it -- not only about the novel coronavirus’s immediate impact, but about the history of pandemics in general.

This concern led to a conversation with Karen Coats, Ph.D., Dean of Southern Miss’ Graduate School and Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, and they got to work on recruiting fellow faculty to create this course.

“Our mission as a public institution is to serve the public,” Masterson said. “As a professor, we conduct research in our areas and publish that research in journals that are read largely by other academics. The opportunity to put

our scholarly work into a context related to current events highlights the importance of what we do in academia and fulfills the mission of serving the public good.”

The course takes about three hours to complete, but it does not have to be done in one sitting.

It can be taken by anyone and is presented in a way that all can understand, no matter if they’re a first year student, business manager or well-read academic.

Masterson noted that the goal of the course is not to become an expert on COVID-19, but to become equipped with facts from subject-matter experts about infectious diseases in order to minimize one’s risk, both to one’s self and others.

“You’re not going to take this course and become a COVID-19 expert, but when you take this course you will have a better foundation for what this pandemic may mean for you. It’s going to help

you navigate the things you’re hearing on the news,” Masterson said.

“Education will play an important role in mitigating this pandemic. That’s what this course is all about,” Coats said. “It brings together a group of faculty with diverse areas of expertise to inform the public about pandemics throughout history, the biology, epidemiology, and control of the coronavirus, and the impact of COVID-19 on personal and societal health and well-being.”

Coats said each module is valuable as a stand-alone, but it is the hope of Southern Miss that the complete course will provide a level of understanding COVID-19 which will equip the community to better discern fact from fiction.

“Ultimately, it will prepare us to make better decisions about protecting ourselves and others from infection,” Coats said.

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Tinder’s ‘Swipe Night’ has users bond over an apocalyptic storyline MORGAN LAWRENCE PRINTZ EDITOR inder users attempted to forget about the pandemic for a moment with the latest season of Tinder’sinteractive movie ‘Swipe Night’. The three-episode event, which happened between Sep. 12 and 27 every Saturday and Sunday night, had its original release date postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Directed by Karena Evans, who also directed Drake’s music video for “God’s Plan”, ‘Swipe Night’ first debuted Season One in October 2019 to boost user interest and provide something new for users to converse about.

The viewer becomes the protagonist in a pre-apocalyptic decision-based story in both seasons of ‘Swipe Night’. Each choice (or swipe) during the video leads to a new event in the storyline, with decisions affecting the overall outcome of the story. Critical choices made show up on users’ profiles, potentially increasing the odds of having new matches based on similar decisions.

Season Two, which was initially going to be released this summer, now offers users the ability to chat about something other than quarantine and facemasks.

This season of ‘Swipe Night’ follows a young adult friend group -- the player

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character, problematic couple Lucy and Graham and controlling and outgoing Molly -- as they attend a seemingly normal house party. Things quickly turn bad when everyone receives an urgent alert on their phones, announcing a meteor is about to impact on their location. All hell breaks loose as everyone starts panicking and trying to evacuate. The first decision comes soon after: swipe left to help the girl down the street, or swipe right to

follow your friends in the other direction.

As with other decision-based story games, ‘Swipe Night’ Season Two has multiple storylines a player could potentially encounter as they make decisions.

These choices can help or hurt the overall progression, and could lead to eight possible endings, including one featuring rapper Rico Nasty.

One of the most interesting things about ‘Swipe Night’ is the viewing style.

The video takes up the entire vertical phone screen, including pseudo texts and alerts which drop down from the top of the screen like real life notifications.

Viewers might even have to do a double-take when reading the messages just to make sure that they are not real. This new and unfamiliar style makes it easy to get immersed and one of ‘Swipe Night’s’ major strengths.

While the experience of ‘Swipe Night’ may be interesting, the five minute episodes may only be entertaining to a younger audience. When playing along, the storyline tended to feel more like a Freeform drama than a worldwide Tinder event. While making everyone happy is impossible, Tinder could have done a better job with relating to a wider audience.

No matter the opinion of this particular user, Tinder has certainly created a new trail of endless possibilities for the digital world and heightened expectations for other competing dating and social media apps. Many people have felt especially isolated during this pandemic, and Tinder’s ‘Swipe Night’ has offered their community a new way to meet people and feel involved.

Hopefully, Tinder will be back with new ‘Swipe Night’ episodes or other fresh and exciting new projects soon.

Until then, happy swiping.

Amber Ruffin changes the late-night television game MARISSA HAAS DESIGN EDITOR ate Night with Seth Meyers’ writer and performer Amber Ruffin debuted ‘The Amber Ruffin Show’ Sep. 25 on Peacock TV. Instead of a talk show centered around celebrity guest interviews, Ruffin’s show consists of sketches, jokes, songs and a whole lot of heart and joy.

While Ruffin had been a part of Meyers’ writing team since the beginning of his show, she later appeared in segments such as “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell” and “Amber Says What?”, captivating audiences with her gleeful demeanor.

Although it is a bit strange to watch late night television without a live studio audience, Ruffin makes up for that loss with her charisma and wit. While some topics she discusses may be heavy in nature, her demeanor and energy both alleviates and drives home the importance of these topics. She offers the audience a perfect mix of lighthearted, fun humor while conducting critical discussions surrounding systemic racism in America.

When protests regarding the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd began, Ruffin used her platform on ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ to discuss her experiences with the police as a Black woman. She also brings these same important conversations to her own show.“Because I have my own show, I have a responsibility

to say things that people need to know but that aren’t being said,” said Ruffin during her opening monologue. “It’s a cool opportunity that I don’t take lightly.

There are very big, obvious truths that nobody wants to say on TV, but I will. [...]

You matter.”

She then went on to discuss Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was murdered in her own home at the hands of the police.

“What happened to Breonna Taylor was the product of a system made to protect the oppressor.” Ruffin said. “I also choose to look at the fact that this injustice organized millions of Americans who previously were sitting on the sidelines, but this never should have happened.”

With this, Ruffin presents a unique take on late-night television. Instead of filling airtime interviewing guests about their latest projects, she talks about issues that are affecting America and her personally as a Black woman. She doesn’t turn the audience away from these truths, either, but rather invites them to empathize with these communities.

While the aforementioned anecdote was delivered in a monologue, she also drives home these same ideas in sketches. In a sketch towards the beginning of the show, she talked about how misinformation is bad and how it often comes from top officials, which is dangerous. With this, she delivered a rapidfire “Fact Check” to various Trump claims like, “Black Lives Matter is dangerous to black people” and “Our COVID-19 numbers are better

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than almost all countries.’” Her one-liner response to these claims gave audiences a chuckle while reminding the audience about the dangers of misinformation.

While it may seem like ‘The Amber Ruffin Show’ is all about serious topics, Ruffin’s show is basically a one-woman variety sketch show, and most of the show Ruffin acknowledged the weight of her material and gave the audience a chance to relax towards the end of the show with a sketch called “The Cool Down”.

This featured a montage of Ruffin’s head floating in a field while saying things like, “Imagine a hot person smiling at you on the sidewalk,” and “A sincere apology

from your college boyfriend,” and “A man with 20/20 vision that confused you with Academy Award winner Angela Bassett.”

(The sketch quickly turned into a love letter from Ruffin to Bassett from there, only adding to the comedy.)

In ‘The Amber Ruffin Show’, Ruffin is genuinely having a good time while delivering fun yet important material. The personification of joy, Ruffin is a fantastic performer and giving her a late-night show is one of the best things to happen in 2020.

New episodes of ‘The Amber Ruffin Show’ are streaming every Friday on Peacock.

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The Supreme Court race for a new Chief Justice DIPIN SUBEDI PRINTZ REPORTER he political disagreements of the nation have gotten even more fierce after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

While President Donald Trump is keen on nominating a Ginsburg replacement now, supported by a majority Republican Senate, Democrats are demanding a delay in appointment until January 20, 2021.

Trump’s best strategy here would be to fill the vacant position on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) as quickly as possible, but the proximity of the Presidential election later this year might bring some obstructions.

The heated dispute has its roots in hypocrisy, empty promises and resentment on both sides of the aisle. The debate regarding the replacement surprisingly has no connections with the qualification of the new Chief Justice. A bipartisan agreement over a Justice that would protect the SCOTUS’s legitimacy is non-existent.

Democrats, who have been fighting for a delay, are furious over the hypocrisy of Republican senators, who previously refused to hold a vote for a new Chief Justice in the last year of the Obama

administration with 237 days left before the election. With less than 50 days left for the next Presidential election, Democrats view the hasty process as a last-minute power grab. However, filling a vacant seat in the SCOTUS during the final year of the presidency is not unconstitutional, so they can’t technically halt the vote.

Democrats also fear that Trump’s decision will shift the ideological inclination of SCOTUS to an extremely right-wing position. They believe that issues such as climate change, minority voting rights and Roe v. Wade might be threatened under new conservative leadership. As a result, multiple Democratic politicians have proposed to pack the courts, which would expand the number of justices in the federal judiciary.

If SCOTUS tilts towards a more conservative position, the country will only be further polarized, even if the Democrats hold a presidential and Senate majority.

Although President Trump has pledged to replace Ginsburg’s place with a woman Chief Justice, it would be meaningless if the justice would not champion women’s rights and instead stick exclusively to conservative viewpoints.

The majority of Republican senators, on the other hand, agree with President Trump on this controversial issue. Repub-

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lican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, who has had disagreements with Trump on several issues in the past and even voted to impeach him, seems to support the President on this occasion, and rightly so.

He intends to vote for the nominee based on her qualifications on the Senate floor instead of her viewpoints.

The results of the next presidential election might bring some obstructions if Trump loses his office and Senate Republicans lose their majority seats. If we take a look at the historical data of the time taken for the appointment of a Chief Justice, it took an average of 67 days to confirm the replacement of a new justice.

The process of replacing Ginsburg could be wrapped up before the upcoming presidential elections, too. However, if the confirmation process is pushed back to the lame-duck session due to a Democrat majority, the actual appointment could take much longer than what’s actually viable.

The vacancy of the position of a Chief Justice demands a replacement. The Republicans have adhered to the Constitution in their appointment scheduling.

A replacement must be made by the incumbent President with the advice and consent of the Senate as soon as possible.

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rushing touchdown from fellow running back Kevin Perkins. On the next offensive drive, quarterback Jack Abraham found wide receiver Jason Brownlee in the middle of the field, who then ran past Tulane’s secondary for an 88-yard touchdown.

Brownlee’s touchdown is the fourth longest in school history.

However, the Green Wave stopped the Golden Eagles’ early offensive attack by intercepting a screen pass from Abraham. Cornerback Kevaris Hall got the pick and returned it to Southern Miss’ eight yard line.

Three plays later, running back Tyjae Spears ran it in for a two-yard touchdown.

Tulane quarterback Keon Howard, formerly a Southern Miss quarterback, was benched towards the end of the first quarter and was replaced by true freshman Michael

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 Pratt. On his first drive, Pratt was hit outside of the pocket by linebacker Santrell Latham. After review, Latham was ejected for targeting.

“Obviously it hurt losing Santrell,” Walden said. “He’s our captain on defense. I’ll be honest with you with the targeting penalty, I know Santrell was [doing] nothing malicious to where he led with the crown of his helmet [...] I didn’t feel like he did anything intentional. Unfortunately, it was called for targeting.”

Tulane then moved the ball down the field and tied the game with another running touchdown from Spears. Spears went down after the play and did not return to the field for the remainder of the game. He finished with eight carries for 50 yards and his first two touchdowns of the year.

On the next drive, Abraham connected with tight end Naricuss Driver who blew past Tulane’s secondary and scored a 61-yard

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touchdown to put Southern Miss up again with a 21-14 lead.

Tulane took advantage of a sloppy play from Southern Miss for the rest of the half. After a fumbled punt return by cornerback Natrone Brooks, Tulane running back Cameron Carroll caught a 32-yard touchdown from Pratt. On its next drive, the Green Wave kicked a field goal. After a three and out from Southern Miss, Carroll got another touchdown on a 30-yard run to finish the half at 31-21.

Tulane continued its attack during the second half. Two plays into the third quarter, Carroll broke free for his third touchdown of the day on a 52-yard run.

Southern Miss’ kicker Briggs Bourgeois made a career long field goal of 49 yards to put the game within two touchdowns, but Southern Miss could not score again for the remainder of the game.

Tulane continued to dismantle

Southern Miss. Pratt connected with receiver Jha’Quan Jackson for a 42-yard touchdown and, three minutes later, running back Stephon Huderson ran free for a 53-yard touchdown.

In the fourth quarter, Pratt sneaked in at the goaline for a touchdown.

Carrol then earned his fourth touchdown of the game on a 19-yard run to put the score up to 66-24.

Carroll finished the game with fifteen carries for 163 yards and four total touchdowns.

“We’ve got nine games ahead of us and my main message to the guys is keep working and put this one behind us,” Abraham said. “It’s obviously embarrassing and not the way we want to have the game turn out, but we’ve got a lot of football ahead of us.”

Southern Miss will travel to play North Texas next weekend on Oct. 3 at 6:30 P.M.

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