Tulane participated in the college football playoff last year.
Posted by Kevin Kietzman Has Issues, Checked
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Kevin Kietzman Has IssuesSep 17, 2026
Multiple reliable sources (AP, WAFB, Tulane athletics, CFP site) confirm Tulane played in the 2025-26 College Football Playoff, losing 41-10 to No. 6 Ole Miss in the first round on Dec. 20, 2025. The post's 'last year' framing refers to that 2025 season, and the claim matches the passage's point that Tulane was a playoff participant the prior season.
What was said
… Well, there's a couple things that we would talk about. One is they have a head coach in Will Hall that's in his first year as a head coach, but he was at Tulane last year when they were a college football playoff participant. Remember that, Kevin? They went to Mississippi, and they were in the college football playoff. And before that, they had just an unbelievable run with Willie Fritz, where they went 12 and 2 in 22, 11 and 3 in 23. They beat K State in 2022, you know, big upset, at least we thought at the time. …
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Supports. AP reports No. 17 Tulane was beaten 41-10 by No. 6 Ole Miss in the first round of the CFP on Dec. 20, 2025, so Tulane participated in the playoff.[1]
Supports. WAFB reports that in their first-ever CFP appearance, 11th-ranked Tulane lost 41-10 to No. 6 Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi.[2]
Supports. The Wikipedia bracket for the 2025–26 CFP lists Tulane as the No. 11 seed, and the Tulane athletics release confirms the Green Wave qualified as an American Conference champion.[3][4]
Context. Tulane's 2025 playoff berth was the first in school history; the 2026 Miami Herald piece also refers to Tulane making the field last year.[5]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 4 not rated
- 1No. 6 Ole Miss rolls past No. 17 Tulane in CFP after Kiffin's departureapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Tulane falls to Ole Miss in first round of College Football ...wafb.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 32025–26 College Football Playoff - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Green Wave Rolls into CFP's First Roundtulanegreenwave.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5A look at how the College Football Playoff rankings are mademiamiherald.com · not rated · cited for: context
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