Setting the Stage
• Navy and Tulane will meet for the 25th time in series history and for the sixth time since Navy joined the American Athletic Conference in 2015 when they square off on Saturday morning (11:00 am local time, 12 noon ET) at Yulman Stadium (30,000).
• Per current rules in the city of New Orleans, there will be no fans at Saturday's game.
• Tulane leads the all-time series against Navy, 12-11-1, however the Mids lead the series since joining the American Athletic Conference, 4-1. The average margin of victory for the winning team in the five AAC games is six points and over the last three years, the games have been decided by a total of six points.
• In 2017, Navy beat Tulane in Annapolis 23-21; in 2018, Tulane beat Navy in New Orleans 29-28 on a two-point conversion in the final seconds; last year, Navy defeated Tulane 41-38 on a 48-yard field goal by Bijan Nichols as time expired. Navy owned a 21-0 lead at the end of the first quarter and held a 31-14 advantage at the half before Tulane roared back to tie the game with 1:01 left on a 1-yard touchdown run by quarterback Justin McMillan. Nichols' field goal capped a 7-play drive in 61 seconds for the Mids.
• The home team has dominated the series. Tulane is 9-2-1 against Navy in New Orleans, while the Mids are 9-1 against Tulane in Annapolis.
• Navy has not started a season 0-2 since 2012 when it lost to Notre Dame in Ireland and at Penn State. That team started 1-3 and was trailing Air Force in the fourth quarter before freshman quarterback Keenan Reynolds came off the bench to lead Navy to an overtime win. Reynolds started the next week at Central Michigan and the rest is history as the Mids would go on to post a 34-13 record over the next four years, win three Commander-In-Chief's trophies, earn three bowl victories and capture a share of the AAC West Division title in 2015 (Navy's first year in the league).

Broadcast Coverage
• ABC will televise the Tulane game nationally with Mark Jones, Dusty Dvoracek and Quint Kessenich on the call.
• WBAL Radio will air the Navy Football Insider show on Thursday at 7:00 pm, hosted by Navy football radio analyst Joe Miller.
• The Navy Football Tailgate Show on WNAV Radio 1430 AM / 99.9 FM will air at 10:00 am with Wylie Baker and Bill Lusby.
• The Navy Football Pregame Show with Pete Medhurst, Joe Miller, Keith Mills and Scott Wykoff will get underway at 11:00 am on the Navy Radio Network, followed by game action beginning at 12:00 pm with Medhurst, Miller and Mills on the call.
• Following the contest, Medhurst, Miller, Mills and Wykoff will recap the day's events in a 30-minute postgame show.

Scouting Tulane
• Tulane enters Saturday's contest with a 1-0 record and is receiving votes in the USA Today/Coaches Poll.
• The Green Wave are coming off a 27-24 victory over South Alabama last Saturday night.
• Tulane was led by redshirt freshman running back Tyjae Spears, who carried the ball 11 times for 105 yards and a touchdown and caught 2 passes for 30 yards.
• Redshirt senior quarterback Keon Howard, who was making his first-career start at Tulane (started 11 games over two years at Southern Miss in 2016 (2) and 2017 (9), completed 14 of his 30 passes for 191 yards and carried the ball 8 times for 15 yards.
• Sophomore wide receiver Jha'Quan Jackson led the receiving corps with 3 catches for 44 yards.
• The defensive front seven, that features several future NFL draft picks, shut down the South Alabama rushing attack, allowing just 83 yards on 35 carries.
• Tulane's two defensive ends, Cameron Sample and Patrick Johnson, are probable high-round draft picks. They combined for 4 sacks and 5.5 tackles for a loss in the win over South Alabama.

Last Meeting ... Navy 41, Tulane 38 // Oct. 26, 2019 // Annapolis, Md. // Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
• (AP) Bijan Nichols kicked a 48-yard field goal as time expired, and Navy edged Tulane, 41-38, on Homecoming.
• Nichols' kick - a yard shy of a career long - capped a seven-play drive in the final 61 seconds to secure bowl eligibility for the Midshipmen for the 15th time in 17 years.
• Sophomore fullback Jamale Carothers rushed for a career-high 154 yards and accounted for four touchdowns and quarterback Malcolm Perry rushed for 142 yards and threw for a touchdown for the Midshipmen.
• Diego Fagot returned an interception for a touchdown late in the first half for Navy, which scored on its first four possessions and never trailed the Green Wave .
• Tulane quarterback Justin McMillan threw for 290 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for another two scores in the loss.
• Carothers capped Navy's first two possessions with touchdown runs of 52 and 35 yards, running nearly untouched into the end zone on both occasions. He then collected a 31-yard touchdown catch from Perry to cap the Mids' third series.
• Navy would push the lead to 24-0, but Tulane stitched together a pair of second-quarter touchdown drives to climb back in it. The Green Wave was starting a push for another score just before halftime, but Fagot collected a carom off running back Tyjae Spears and returned it 17 yards for a score to make it 31-14 at the break.
• Tulane drew closer on McMillan's short touchdown passes to Jaetavian Toles and Ygenio Booker in the third quarter. The Green Wave finally tied it on Merek Glover's 39-yard field goal with 10:17 to play.
• Carothers scored his fourth touchdown of the day on a 15-yard rumble with 5:23 to go, but Tulane responded with McMillan's sneak with 1:01 remaining to tie it at 38.

Navy In Road Openers
• Navy is 7-5 in road openers under head coach Ken Niumatalolo and has lost two straight.

This Date In Navy Football History
• This will be the 10th time Navy has played on Sept. 19 and the first time since 2015 when the Mids played host to East Carolina in Navy's first-ever AAC game and defeated the Pirates 45-21.
• Navy also defeated Boston College 24-8 in 1959 and senior quarterback Roger Staubach led the Mids to a 21-8 victory over Penn State in 1964.