American college football season
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 UCF, UConn, 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 UMass and travel to Wake Forest from the Atlantic Coast Conference.
- ^[a] The game between Tulane and UCF 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 summaries
Wake Forest
Southern
Navy
Week 3: Navy Midshipmen at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
- Date: September 17, 2016
- Game time: 6:00 p.m. CDT
- Game attendance: 21,503
- TV: ASN
Louisiana–Lafayette
Week 4: Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
- Date: September 24, 2016
- Game time: 7:00 p.m. CDT
- Game attendance: 24,253
- TV: ESPN3
Massachusetts
Memphis
Week 7: Memphis Tigers at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
- Date: October 14, 2016
- Game time: 7:00 p.m. CDT
- TV: ESPNU
Tulsa
Week 8: Tulane Green Wave at Tulsa Golden Hurricane – Game Summary
at Chapman Stadium • Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Date: October 22, 2016
- Game time: 2:45 p.m. CDT
- Game attendance: 22,349
- TV: ESPNU
SMU
Week 9 (homecoming): SMU Mustangs at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
- Date: October 29, 2016
- Game time: 3:00 p.m. CDT
- Game attendance: 25,780
- TV: ESPNews
UCF
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 both teams, coincidentally, had scheduled bye weeks for that week.[2]
Houston
Week 11: Tulane Green Wave at Houston Cougars – Game Summary
at TDECU Stadium • Houston, Texas
- Date: November 12, 2016
- Game time: 2:30 p.m. CST
- Game attendance: 36,552
- TV: CBSSN
Temple
Week 12: Temple Owls at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
- Date: November 19, 2016
- Game time: 2:30pm CST
- Game attendance: 16,497
- TV: ESPN3
UConn
References
- ^ "2016 Tulane Football Dates, Selected Television Games Announced" (Press release). Tulane University Department of Athletics. February 9, 2016. Archived from the original on March 13, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
- ^ a b Green, Shannon. "Hurricane Matthew forces UCF to postpone Tulane game". OrlandoSentinel.com. Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved October 6, 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.
