Injured on a tackle when he ran for a first down in the first quarter, Tulane quarterback Jake Retzlaff really came up lame on the next play against Memphis on Friday night. He hobbled to the sideline and into the medical tent after handing off to Javin Gordon for a 5-yard touchdown run.

No worries. After missing two plays, he returned and continued to produce one of the best statistical halves in Green Wave football history.

Bouncing back in a dazzling way from a subpar, two-interception performance that got him benched in the third quarter eight days earlier against Texas-San Antonio, he refused to let a leg injury bother him in the least.

“College football is college football, especially in November,” he said. “You get banged up here and there. I went to the tent, they got me fixed u

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