What a week to be a Golden Hurricane!

• Tulsa Volleyball won the American Conference Tournament for the first time ever and is now headed to the NCAA Tournament
• Football beat a solid Army team on the road for Tre Lamb's first conference win
• Men's hoops beat Austin Peay and looks better each week
• Women's hoops crushed a previously undefeated and top-100 Missouri State team.

An incredible week around TU sports makes for a fun episode, and we hope you enjoy this one as much as we did!

Also, Happy Thanksgiving! If you're traveling for the holiday, please travel safe. And if you're not, we hope you have a wonderful few days wherever you are.

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Tulsa football has swept the OSUs thus far. Only one remains in D1 football: Ohio State. Bring on the Buckeyes.

Ryan is back from pheasant hunting + a week long trip to Berlin, and we catch up on what was a big week in Tulsa sports. Football dominated Oregon State, men's hoops is 3-1 and just lost a road nail-biter to Kansas State, and women's hoops is undefeated.

We talk about all of that, then wrap with a roundup of (almost) all the other active sports at TU.

There are only four games left in the football season and every game is a must win. Hosting solo this week Matt breaks down some of the stats behind the FAU matchup and why he thinks Tulsa can come out of the bye with a win.

Additionally he looks at the basketball season opener and the other sports on campus.

Tulsa Football played its best game of the year on Homecoming, but came up just short against a very solid Temple team in dramatic overtime fashion. We talk about the choice to go for two, the play call, the Baylor <-> Brody connection, the growth of the team, and plenty more.

After that, since we've got another bye week coming up, friend of the show J.J. Cody-Fox joins the podcast for our annual "J.J.'s No Sports Zone" segment! Always love chatting with J.J. about anything & everything EXCEPT sports.

Also - it's officially basketball season! The men's team played their exhibition game against East Central University on Tuesday, beating them 94-56, and have their first regular season game next week, so we spend a bit of time on men's hoops as well.

Tulsa Head Men's Basketball Coach Eric Konkol joins the podcast to preview the 2025-26 basketball season!

We break down the roster including all 12 new players, talk the schedule and why it is the way it is, ask what success means for this team, and get into some fun listener questions. Plus a lightning round! Always love having coach on the show and we're grateful for his time.

After that, we recap the ECU loss, take a look around what was a big week for the conference, preview this Saturday's Homecoming game vs a solid Temple team, and round it out with a look across all other active TU sports.

Really fun one this week. Hope you enjoy it!

Second verse, hopefully much better than the first.

Tulsa just wrapped bye #1 on the year and, with that, is past all of the hardest teams on their schedule. ECU is no joke though, checking in at #68 in ESPN's SP+ rankings this week.

To help us preview Thursday night's road game against the Pirates, we welcome in Jared Shafit from The Boneyard Podcast! Always a blast chatting with him.

Also in this episode:

* A quick basketball overview as we get closer to basketball season (full preview coming next week)

* Around the American

* TU sports roundup

First things first: We have a Patreon! It's by far the best way to support this podcast. Ryan just published a new post breaking down how things are going across all 7 active TU fall sports now that we're at the midpoint of the season for most of them. Check it out here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-sports-2025-140596354

On to football. Tulsa had a tough first-half of the season and capped that off with a 45-7 shellacking at the hands of the Memphis Tigers. We discuss what's worth taking away from that game and recap the bright spots: Elijah Green! That one touchdown pass!

But now we are at the first of two bye weeks and the schedule looks a lot more competitive for the Golden Hurricane going forward.

We close things out with a look Around the American and conclude with our fall sports roundup.

Read Ryan's new post on Patreon - Fall Sports Halftime: 2025

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After the historic win over Oklahoma State, Tulsa came back down to earth with Saturday’s loss to Tulane in the Battle of the Color-Based Water Phenomena. We do our best to break down the game (having not been able to watch it in its entirety) and talk what’s next for the football team this season.

After that, we talk about some breaking news in the athletic department, look forward to Saturday's road test at Memphis, and wrap it up by looking around campus at our other fall sports.

For the first time since November 3, 1951, Tulsa went into Stillwater and came away with a road win against Oklahoma State. That's the kind of program-changing, culture-building win head coach Tre Lamb has been looking for in his first season. "New Tulsa" might be just be here after all.

For the first time ever on the show, we bring in a guest to help us RECAP a Tulsa game! Phillip Slavin from the Ten12 Podcast and Ten12 Network joins us to break it all down.

After that, we talk EVEN MORE Tulsa - OSU before welcoming in Jack Chasanoff from The Uptown Update to preview this Saturday's home game vs Tulane at 3:00 central on ESPNU.

We close things out by recapping all the other sports happening at TU right now, specifically the sad state of the men's soccer program and the extremely not-sad state of the volleyball program, which is turning into a powerhouse before our eyes under head coach Lauren Ramatowski.

Tulsa forced 3 turnovers in Navy's first 3 possessions to go up 14-0, but TU couldn't keep up the momentum and the Navy train rolled right over us for the rest of the game.

We discuss the awesome start from the defense, Baylor Hayes, the lack of a deep ball so far, and more before awarding our players of the game and taking a look around what continues to be an incredible start for The American.

After that, we welcome in Calvin Alexander from The CGA Tour to help us preview this Friday's game at Oklahoma State - a massive game for both programs.

Also, Matt has a new article on Patreon about what a "successful" first season under Tre Lamb would be! Check out his post here and join our Patreon to support the show and unlock a bunch more bonus content: patreon.com/thegoldenhurricast