Tulsa has home schedule that rivals the best in recent history highlights The University of Tulsa’s 2019 football season, as the school released its schedule today.
Seven 2018 bowl participants are on Tulsa’s 2019 schedule, including Michigan State and Oklahoma State in nonconference play, while five of Tulsa’s eight American Athletic Conference opponents also played in a bowl game in 2018.
The schedule includes Michigan State and Oklahoma State plus two of Tulsa’s former conference members – San Jose State and Wyoming – when the schools were members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).
Tulsa’s home schedule features Wyoming and American Athletic Conference opponents –– UCF, Houston, Memphis and Navy.
“Obviously, our schedule is really tough,” said Tulsa coach Philip Montgomery. “To start the season on the road at a perennial powerhouse team in Michigan State, then turnaround and travel to the West Coast for a game against San Jose State, and then you’re back home playing Oklahoma State and a week later Wyoming.
“You don’t have a chance to breathe –– starting with the back-to-back road games, then when you finally get home you have the Cowboys here in your home stadium. It’s a challenging non-league schedule that will definitely help prepare us for an extremely competitive conference schedule.
“We have a lot of exciting home conference games when you look at Navy, Memphis, Central Florida and Houston. Those teams have perennially been at the top of our league, so we know we have our hands full at home and we have tough road games in the midst of that.
“Navy has been consistently good year-in and year-out and Memphis won the west division last year. After those two, we have Central Florida coming to town, a team that lost just one ballgame in the last two years, then we finish it up with a rivalry game against Houston.”
Tulsa 2019 Football Schedule
- August 30 at Michigan State
- September 7 at San Jose State
- September 14 – Oklahoma State
- September 21 – Wyoming
- October 5 at SMU
- October 12 – Navy
- October 19 at Cincinnati
- October 26 – Memphis
- November 2 at Tulane
- November 8 – UCF
- November 23 – Houston
- November 30 at East Carolina