Tulane tight end Alex Bauman caught a 6-yard touchdown from Michael Pratt with 9 seconds left to cap a frantic finish by the 14th-ranked Green Wave in a 46-45 win over Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams and No. 8 Southern California in the Cotton Bowl on Monday.
Bauman’s contested catch, with linebacker Eric Gentry draped over him, was initially ruled an incompletion, but a replay review showed the ball never touched the ground as the players rolled over in the end zone. The Green Wave scored 16 points in the final 4:07, the game-winning touchdown coming after they got the ball back following a safety."I might have had a heart attack," Tulane coach Willie Fritz said moments after the game ended.
The Green Wave played in their most significant bowl since the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day in 1940, when they were still in the Southeastern Conference, and it was their biggest bowl win since the 1935 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, where their campus is located. Pratt completed only 8 of 17 passes for 234 yards, but had two 24-yard completions on that final drive after the safety. He also scrambled 8 yards on a fourth-and-6 play.
The Trojans, who never trailed until that final touchdown, jumped ahead 14-0 when Williams threw TD passes on each of their first two possessions. His 9-yard TD to Michael Jackson III capped the game-opening drive that took 9 minutes, the longest by time for USC this season, and Terrell Bynum’s 3-yard catch capped a 95-yard drive early in the second quarter.
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