2016 Tulane Green Wave football team

2016 Tulane Green Wave football

Conference	American Athletic Conference
Division	West Division
2016 record	4–8 (1–7 The American)
Head coach	Willie Fritz (1st year)
Offensive coordinator	Doug Ruse (1st year)
Offensive scheme	Flexbone
Defensive coordinator	Jack Curtis (1st year)
Home stadium	Yulman Stadium (Capacity: 30,000)

2016 American Athletic Conference football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
East Division
No. 23 Temple xy$		7	–	1		10	–	3
No. 25 South Florida x		7	–	1		10	–	2
UCF		4	–	4		6	–	6
Cincinnati		1	–	7		4	–	8
Connecticut		1	–	7		3	–	9
East Carolina		1	–	7		3	–	9
West Division
Navy xy		7	–	1		9	–	3
Tulsa		6	–	2		9	–	3
Memphis		5	–	3		8	–	4
Houston		5	–	3		9	–	3
SMU		3	–	5		5	–	7
Tulane		1	–	7		4	–	8
Championship: Temple 34, Navy 10
$ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions y – Championship game participant As of December 6, 2016; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2016 Tulane Green Wave football team represented Tulane University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Green Wave played their home games at Yulman Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, and competed in the West Division of American Athletic Conference (AAC). They were led by first-year head coach Willie Fritz. They finished the season 4–8, 1–7 in American Athletic play to finish in last place in the West Division.

Schedule

Tulane announced its 2016 football schedule on February 9, 2016. The 2016 schedule consists of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Green Wave will host AAC foes Memphis, Navy, SMU, and Temple, and will travel to Central Florida (UCF), Connecticut, Houston, and Tulsa.^[1]

The team will play four non–conference games, two of which are home games against Louisiana–Lafayette from the Sun Belt Conference and Southern from the Southwestern Athletic Conference, and two road game against Massachusetts (UMass) and travel to Wake Forest from the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 1	6:00 PM	at Wake Forest*	BB&T Field • Winston-Salem, NC	ESPN3	L 3–7	24,398
September 10	7:00 PM	Southern*	Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, LA	ESPN3	W 66–21	27,179
September 17	6:00 PM	Navy	Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, LA	ASN	L 14–21	21,503
September 24	7:00 PM	Louisiana–Lafayette*	Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, LA	ESPN3	W 41–39 ^4OT	24,253
October 1	2:30 PM	at UMass*	Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium • Hadley, MA	ASN	W 31–24	14,892
October 14	7:00 PM	Memphis	Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, LA	ESPNU	L 14–24	21,098
October 22	2:45 PM	at Tulsa	Chapman Stadium • Tulsa, OK	ESPNU	L 27–50	22,349
October 29	3:00 PM	SMU	Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, LA	ESPNews	L 31–35	25,780
November 5^[a]	5:00 PM	at UCF	Bright House Networks Stadium • Orlando, FL	ESPN3	L 6–37	31,571
November 12	2:30 PM	at Houston	TDECU Stadium • Houston, TX	CBSSN	L 18–30	36,552
November 19	2:30 PM	Temple	Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, LA	ASN	L 0–31	16,497
November 26	3:00 PM	at Connecticut	Rentschler Field • East Hartford, CT	ESPNews	W 38–13	20,764
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Central Time Zone.

^{^[a]}The game between Tulane and Central Florida on October 7, 2016, was postponed due to Hurricane Matthew. The game was rescheduled for the following month on November 5, 2016, with the kickoff time to be announced.^[2]

Schedule Source:^[3]

Game Notes

Wake Forest

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
2–0	1995	Tulane, 35–9

Week 1: Tulane Green Wave at Wake Forest Demon Deacons – Game Summary^[4]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tulane	3	0	0	0	3
Wake Forest	0	7	0	0	7

at BB&T Field • Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Date: September 1, 2016
Game time: 7:00 PM EDT
Game attendance: 24,398
TV: ESPN3

Southern

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
2–0	2002	Tulane, 37–19

Week 2: Southern Jaguars at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary^[5]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Southern	7	0	14	0	21
Tulane	28	21	7	10	66

at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana

Date: September 10, 2016
Game time: 7:00 PM CDT
Game attendance: 27,179
TV: ESPN3

Navy

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
11–8–1	2015	Navy, 31–14

Week 3: Navy Midshipmen at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary

	1	2	3	4	Total
Navy	0	7	6	8	21
Tulane	0	7	7	0	14

at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana

Date: September 17, 2016
Game time: 6:00 PM CDT
Game attendance: 21,503
TV: ASN

Louisiana–Lafayette

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
21–6	2013	ULL, 24–21

Week 4: Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary

	1	2	3	4	OT	2OT	3OT	4OT	Total
UL-Lafayette	3	3	3	7	7	7	3	6	39
Tulane	0	6	10	0	7	7	3	8	41

at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana

Date: September 24, 2016
Game time: 7:00 PM CDT
Game attendance: 24,253
TV: ESPN3

Massachusetts

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
First meeting

Week 5: Tulane Green Wave at Massachusetts Minutemen – Game Summary^[6]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tulane	7	3	14	7	31
UMass	14	0	0	10	24

at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium • Hadley, Massachusetts

Date: October 1, 2016
Game time: 3:30 PM EDT
TV: ESPN3/ASN

Memphis

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
11–20	2015	Memphis, 41–13

Week 7: Memphis Tigers at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary

	1	2	3	4	Total
Memphis	3	10	3	8	24
Tulane	0	7	0	7	14

at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana

Date: October 14, 2016
Game time: 7:00 PM CDT
TV: ESPNU

Tulsa

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
2–10	2015	Tulsa, 45–34

Week 8: Tulane Green Wave at Tulsa Golden Hurricane – Game Summary

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tulane	7	0	13	7	27
Tulsa	14	17	9	10	50

at Chapman Stadium • Tulsa, Oklahoma

Date: October 22, 2016
Game time: 2:45 PM CDT
Game attendance: 22,349
TV: ESPNU

SMU

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
13–9	2015	SMU, 49–21

Week 9 (Homecoming): SMU Mustangs at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary

	1	2	3	4	Total
SMU	14	7	0	14	35
Tulane	7	3	14	7	31

at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana

Date: October 29, 2016
Game time: 3:00 PM CDT
Game attendance: 25,780
TV: TBA

UCF

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
2–5	2015	Tulane, 45–31

Week 6: Tulane Green Wave at UCF Knights – Game Summary

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tulane	6	0	0	0	6
UCF	0	7	13	17	37

at Bright House Networks Stadium • Orlando, Florida

Date: November 5, 2016
Game time: 4:00 PM EDT
TV: TBA

The game, originally scheduled for a 7:30 pm kickoff on October 6 to be televised on ESPNU, was moved to November 5 due to Hurricane Matthew. The game was moved to November 5 because of the fact that both teams, coincidentally, had scheduled bye weeks for that week.^[2]

Houston

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
5–15	2015	Houston, 42–7

Week 11: Tulane Green Wave at Houston Cougars – Game Summary

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tulane	7	3	0	8	18
Houston	14	14	0	2	30

at TDECU Stadium • Houston, Texas

Date: November 12, 2016
Game time: 2:30 PM CST
TV: TBA

Temple

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
2–1	2015	Temple, 49–10

Week 12: Temple Owls at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary

	1	2	3	4	Total
Temple	7	3	14	7	31
Tulane	0	0	0	0	0

at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana

Date: November 19, 2016
Game time: 2:30pm CST
Game attendance: 16,497
TV: ESPN3

Connecticut

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
1–1	2015	UConn, 7–3

Week 13: Tulane Green Wave at Connecticut Huskies – Game Summary

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tulane	10	14	0	14	38
UConn	0	0	6	7	13

at Rentschler Field • East Hartford, Connecticut

Date: November 26, 2016
Game time: 4:00 PM EST
TV: TBA

References

↑ "2016 Tulane Football Dates, Selected Television Games Announced" (Press release). Tulane University Department of Athletics. February 9, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
1 2 Green, Shannon. "Hurricane Matthew forces UCF to postpone Tulane game". OrlandoSentinel.com. Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
↑ "2016 Tulane Green Wave Football Schedule". FB Schedules. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
↑ "Tulane at Wake Forest". Yahoo! Sports. September 1, 2016. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
↑ "Southern at Tulane". Yahoo! Sports. September 10, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
↑ "Tulane at UMass". Yahoo! Sports. October 1, 2016. Retrieved October 1, 2016.

Tulane Green Wave football

Venues	First Tulane Stadium (1909–16) Second Tulane Stadium (1917–25) Tulane Stadium (1926–74) Mercedes-Benz Superdome (1975–2013) Yulman Stadium (2014–present)

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