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Green Wave Forward · Alumni Brief

Tulane has what a power conference wants. Except the money.

Audience, winning, and broad-based success — Tulane already checks the boxes the ACC weighs. What it lacks is financial backing, from the university and its alumni, like the donor money that earned SMU its seat.

What Tulane already has

634K
Viewers per game (2021–25, incl. postseason) — most in the group, ahead of SMU (539K) and USF (398K).
Winner
Proven on the field — Cotton Bowl win over USC, 3 hosted title games, and the 2025 Playoff (6.2M viewers).
97th
Directors' Cup (2025–26) — best in the American; the broad-based success the ACC values.
160K
Living alumni — more than SMU (140K) or Wake Forest (82K).

What it's missing

$42.8M
a year — the gap between Tulane ($66.2M) and Syracuse ($109.0M), the ACC's lowest spender. (FY2025 EADA.)
$414
per alum in athletic spending — vs. SMU at $1,073 and Wake Forest at $1,398.
The funding gap — FY2025 athletic spending
Tulane$66.2M+$42.8M gap
Syracuse (floor)$109.0M
Wake Forest$114.6M
USF$122.1M
SMU$150.2M
ACC average$165.1M

The ask

Tulane has built the program. Now fund it: 8–12 major donors committing about $43M a year for nine years, a university that matches that ambition, and alumni in the seats.

Read the full 3-page alumni brief (PDF) →

Sign the Power Conference Pledge

If Tulane publicly commits to a power-conference seat and funds a plan to get there, pledge to increase your annual support of Tulane Athletics. It's a non-binding pledge of intent — no money is collected here.

1,500
pledges by Nov. 30
$10M
annual giving intent goal
$43M
a year — the Power Conference gap

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Green Wave Forward is an independent group of Tulane alumni and fans — not affiliated with or collecting on behalf of Tulane University. Your information is used only to count and organize pledges, and shared with Tulane Advancement only if you opt in.

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