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12th game reawakens Tulane-LSU series

Tulane and Louisiana State will renew one of the most historic college football rivalries in the South as the schools have agreed to play a 10-year home-and-home football series beginning in Tiger Stadium in 2006.

The renewal of the series, which dates back to 1893, was made possible by the NCAA's recent decision to allow teams to play a 12th regular season game beginning in 2006. In addition to the eight-game Conference USA schedule, Tulane will play LSU and three other non-conference opponents every year from 2006-2015.

The first game of the series revival will be played Sept. 23, 2006, and sites will alternate each year through the final game of the agreement on Oct. 31, 2015, in the Louisiana Superdome.

Tulane will play host to LSU in New Orleans for the first time since the 1994 season on Sept. 29, 2007.

During the course of the agreement, LSU will receive a ticket allocation for the games scheduled at the Louisiana Superdome in lieu of a financial guarantee.

For each game in Tiger Stadium, Tulane will receive a guarantee along with the option to purchase tickets.

Since moving to the Louisiana Superdome in 1975, Tulane's top six games attendance-wise have come versus LSU, topped by a Tulane Superdome record crowd of 73,496 on Nov. 17, 1979.

Tulane and LSU last played on a regular basis between 1911 and 1994, skipping only the 1918 season due to World War I. The 76 consecutive games from 1919 to 1994 is still the 24th-longest uninterrupted series in NCAA Division I history.

Since the 1994 game in the Louisiana Superdome which marked the end of the last annual series, the teams have met in 1996 and in 2001, both times in Baton Rouge.

Officials of Tulane and LSU began negotiations to revive their annual series in January of this year.

Dates and locations of future Tulane-LSU games:

Sept. 23, 2006 — Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge)
Sept. 29, 2007 — Louisiana Superdome (New Orleans)
Nov. 1, 2008 — Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge)
Oct. 31, 2009 — Louisiana Superdome (New Orleans)
Oct. 30, 2010 — Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge)
Oct. 29, 2011 — Louisiana Superdome (New Orleans)
Nov. 3, 2012 — Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge)
Nov. 2, 2013 — Louisiana Superdome (New Orleans)
Nov. 1, 2014 — Tiger Stadium (Baton Rouge)
Oct. 31, 2015 — Louisiana Superdome (New Orleans)

TCU turns to Carolinas-bred leader as new AD

In a personnel move with multiple indirect twists involving Carolinas schools, Southern Conference commissioner Danny Morrison has been named athletic director at Texas Christian.

Morrison replaces Eric Hyman, who  Jr., who last month succeeded the retiring Mike McGee as South Carolina's AD.

Hyman once served as an associate AD at N.C. State, while McGee was East Carolina's head football coach in 1970.

Morrison will take command of the Horned Frogs program in mid-June, the school said in a release.

Morrison was credited with establishing strategic partnerships with corporations and a stronger television schedule while he was Southern Conference commissioner. The league also began an internship program with NFL Europe during his tenure.

Morrison, 51, became commissioner of the Southern Conference in 2001. Before that, he was senior vice president at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC. He served as Wofford's athletic director from 1985-97.

A native of Burlington, NC, Morrison lettered four years in basketball at Wofford, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1975 with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics. He earned a master's of education in administration and supervision from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1981, and a Ph.D. degree in educational leadership from the University of South Carolina in 2000.

Morrison and his wife, Peggy, have two college-aged children.

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