Tulane’s defense struggles in loss to UCF

Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports The Green Wave knew that they would need a lot of offensive production in order to keep pace with a dynamic UCF squad that, going in, was favored by nearly three touchdowns. Tulane was 0-3 in conference play up to this point so they couldn’t pull any punches either. Furthermore, freshman quarterback Michael Pratt knew a lot of that responsibility would ultimately fall on his shoulders.

With all that in mind, if you had told Willie Fritz that his team would be up 14-10 on the Knights in the Bounce House after the first 15 minutes, he would have probably would have taken it no questions asked. The Wave offense looked darn near perfect in the opening quarter.…