Football’s Jake Retzlaff Named A Manning Award Star of the Week

NEW ORLEANS, LA  – The Tulane soccer group’s Jake Retzlaff has been named one among eight quarterbacks as a Star of the Week by the Manning Award, the Allstate Sugar Bowl introduced on Tuesday.

Retzlaff accomplished 18 of 31 passes for 152 yards and a landing and added 113 speeding yards and a landing on 10 carries in a 23-3 win towards Northwestern in accounting for 265 complete yards of offense. His 69-yard rush was the third-longest in class historical past by a quarterback. He turned the primary Tulane quarterback to run for 100+ yards and a landing at dwelling since 1995.

College soccer followers can comply with the Manning Award on social media (@ManningAward) to vote for what they assume was one of the best efficiency from this previous weekend. When voting closes on Thursday at 9 a.m. (Central), the highest vote-getter shall be introduced because the Manning Award Quarterback of the Week.

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The Manning Award was created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl in 2004 to honor the school soccer accomplishments of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning. It is the one quarterback award that features the candidates’ bowl performances in its balloting. Since the Manning Award began recognizing Stars of the Week in 2011, 570 completely different quarterbacks from 135 colleges have been acknowledged. Seventy-four gamers had been honored through the 2024 season.

This week’s different seven Manning Award Stars of the Week are: Joey Aguilar (Tennessee), Tommy Castellanos (Florida State), Devon Dampier (Utah), Haynes King (Georgia Tech), Marcel Reed (Texas A&M), Evan Simon (Temple), AJ Swann (App State)

While the Manning Award chosen 27 quarterbacks for its preseason Watch List, further quarterbacks are anticipated to be added to the Watch List later within the season. Finalists shall be chosen in early December and the winner is scheduled to be introduced following the College Football Playoff National Championship.

In its first 21 years, the Manning Award has acknowledged the highest names in faculty soccer. It has honored quarterbacks from 15 completely different colleges and from 4 completely different conferences. The Southeastern Conference (Jayden Daniels, Stetson Bennett, Bryce Young, Joe Burrow, Mac Jones, Johnny Manziel, Cam Newton, JaMarcus Russell and Tim Tebow) leads the best way with 9 Manning Award honorees, whereas the Big 12 Conference (Kyler Murray, Baker Mayfield, Vince Young, Colt McCoy and Robert Griffin III) and the Atlantic Coast Conference (Cam Ward, Deshaun Watson twice, Matt Ryan and Jameis Winston) have every had 5 winners.

All the Manning Award winners comply with within the footsteps of the Mannings themselves. In faculty, Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning mixed for over 25,000 passing yards and 201 touchdowns whereas enjoying in 10 bowl video games and incomes 4 bowl MVP awards. Archie was the No. 2 decide within the NFL Draft, whereas each Peyton and Eli had been chosen No. 1 general.

The Tulane soccer group (1-0) began the 2025 marketing campaign with a 23-3 victory over Northwestern on Aug. 30. It was the group’s first dwelling victory over a Power 4 Conference faculty since 2003 towards Mississippi State and this system’s first win over Northwestern since 1956.

The Green Wave ended the 2024 season enjoying in this system’s third consecutive bowl sport. It was additionally the sixth time within the final seven years that Tulane had been chosen to play in a bowl sport (2018 – Cure Bowl, 2019 – Armed Forces Bowl, 2020 – Famous Idaho Bowl, 2022 – Cotton Bowl, 2023 – Military Bowl and 2024 – Gasparilla Bowl). Overall, it was Tulane’s seventeenth bowl look (1932 – Rose Bowl, 1935 – Sugar Bowl, 1939 – Sugar Bowl, 1970 – Liberty Bowl, 1973 – Astro Bluebonnet Bowl, 1979 – Liberty Bowl, 1980 – Hall of Fame Bowl, 1987 – Independence Bowl, 1998 – Liberty Bowl, 2002 – Hawaii Bowl, 2013 – New Orleans, 2018 – Cure Bowl, 2019 – Armed Forces Bowl, 2020 -Famous Idaho Bowl, 2022 – Cotton Bowl, 2023 – Military Bowl and 2024 – Gasparilla Bowl) with this system sporting an all-time report of 7-10 in bowl video games.

Tulane additionally made the group’s third straight American Championship Game look in 2024.

The program sports activities a 33-10 report during the last three seasons. The group’s 33 wins is tied for the sixth-most nationally. The group positioned first or second within the league in 10 completely different classes through the 2024 season together with main the league in third down conversions (52.5), defensive touchdowns (6), completion share (65.6), scoring offense (37.2) and passing effectivity protection (111.65). The group was the nationwide chief in defensive touchdowns with six.

The group had a league-high 18 gamers chosen with all league honors final season together with 2025 returners Derrick Graham (First Team – offensive sort out), Shadre Hurst (First Team – offensive guard), Sam Howard (Second Team – linebacker), Bailey Despanie (Second Team – defensive again) and Kameron Hamilton (Third Team – line of defense)

Head Coach Jon Sumrall has been one of the vital profitable coaches within the nation during the last 4 seasons with a report of 33-9, two Sun Belt Conference championships and a pair of double-digit successful streaks. He was named Sun Belt Conference Coach of Year and was twice named a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year honor. Sumrall returned to Tulane after serving because the Green Wave’s Co-Defensive Coordinator for 3 years (2012-14). In 2013, he was an important a part of Tulane’s run to the New Orleans Bowl, this system’s first postseason look since 2002 and third since 1988. Sumrall additionally was named a finalist for FootballScoop Defensive Line Coach of the Year.

Next, Tulane’s soccer group will get on the street for the primary time this season with a visit to Mobile, Alabama on Saturday, Sept. 6, at 6 p.m. to tackle South Alabama (1-0) at Hancock Whitney Stadium in a sport broadcasted on ESPN+. The group’s remaining schedule contains dwelling video games towards Duke (Sept. 13), East Carolina (Oct. 9), Army (Oct. 18), Florida Atlantic (Nov. 15) and Charlotte (Nov. 29).

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