Vandy football lost to UH by about as much as we did. We're comparable to them in football program strength.
1. I was reffering to the Vandy under Franklin.
2. Vandy has more wins than Tulane at the moment and plays in the SEC. So Tulane is not comparable to Vandy.
I would love for Tulane to become really good at football, but I'm tired of thinking about "what could be" since it just makes me depressed.
The P5 is just about full. There MIGHT be 2-3 openings left, and Tulane is behind 7-9 schools for those openings. If Tulane wants to become good at football, it will be as a member of the AAC. There is a small chance that the AAC could make its own luck over the next five years.
Nobody knows what the future will hold. In 2005, who would have thought that the Big12 would be on the brink of collapse and then considered the weakest/most unstable of the major conferences or that Stanford would be a PAC12 power. I personally think that in 2025 after the Big12 GOR expires, Texas, Oklahoma, Okie State, and Houston (bigger media market and comparable academics to Texas Tech) heading to the PAC, the SEC grabbing VT and North Carolina State, the BIG grabbing UNC and UVA. That would leave 5 openings in the ACC (assuming ND joins for football as well). UCONN WVU, and Cincy are no brainer adds for the ACC, but Temple doesn't bring in anymore media markets since they already have a Pennsylvania team and Temple does not dominate Philly sports, UCF and USF are out because FSU and Miami have the Florida market covered. That would leave ECU, Tulane, Memphis, Baylor, TCU, Tulsa, Texas Tech, and SMU for the last 2 spots in the ACC. So if Tulane got its act together in football and basketball, Tulane could get that last spot in the ACC. ECU brings nothing new to the table for the ACC since Duke and Wake will still be in the ACC, and I don't see the ACC expanding all the way to Texas for one of those schools, and I think the MWC will throw everything and the kitchen sink to get TCU, Baylor, Texas Tech, and SMU so they have a Texas presence again.