2016 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team

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2016 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football
East Tennessee State Buccaneers logo.svg
Conference Southern Conference
Record5–6 (2–6 SoCon)
Head coach
Offensive coordinator Mike O'Cain (2nd season)
Defensive coordinator Billy Taylor (2nd season)
Home stadium Kermit Tipton Stadium
Seasons
  2015
2017  
2016 Southern Conference football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
No. 10 The Citadel $^  8 0   10 2  
No. 9 Wofford ^  6 2   10 4  
No. 13 Chattanooga ^  6 2   9 4  
No. 23 Samford ^  5 3   7 5  
Mercer  4 4   6 5  
Furman  3 5   3 8  
East Tennessee State  2 6   5 6  
Western Carolina  1 7   2 9  
VMI  1 7   3 8  
  • $ Conference champion
  • ^ FCS playoff participant
Rankings from STATS Poll

The 2016 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team represented East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season and were in the first year of their second stint as football members of the Southern Conference (SoCon). ETSU had originally joined the SoCon in 1978, with football joining in 1979, but dropped the sport after the 2003 season and left the conference entirely in 2005. ETSU returned to the SoCon as a full but non-football member in 2014, at that time announcing that the school would reinstate football with play beginning in the 2015 season. The Buccaneers played that season as an FCS independent.

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They were led by second-year head coach Carl Torbush and played all but one of their home games at Kermit Tipton Stadium. The other home game, the Buccaneers' first SoCon game since 2003, was held at the nearby Bristol Motor Speedway on September 17. The game was played on a temporary grass surface that will be laid down from the TennesseeVirginia Tech game to be held one week earlier. They finished the season 5–6, 2–6 in SoCon play to finish in seventh place.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
September 37:00 pmat Kennesaw State * WPCH W 20–17 2OT8,574
September 171:30 pmvs. Western Carolina ESPN3 W 34–3113,863
September 241:30 pmat Wofford ESPN3L 0–317,316
October 112:00 pmNo. 5 Chattanooga SDNL 7–377,411
October 81:30 pmat VMI ESPN3L 7–375,638
October 1512:00 pm Furman
  • Kermit Tipton Stadium
  • Johnson City, TN
SDNL 7–526,052
October 207:30 pm West Virginia Wesleyan *
  • Kermit Tipton Stadium
  • Johnson City, TN
SDNW 38–76,196
October 292:00 pmat No. 5 The Citadel ESPN3L 10–4512,978
November 53:00 pmat Mercer FSN L 13–2110,913
November 121:00 pm Cumberland (TN) *Dagger-14-plain.png
  • Kermit Tipton Stadium
  • Johnson City, TN
SDNW 23–166,735
November 193:30 pmNo. 18 Samford
  • Kermit Tipton Stadium
  • Johnson City, TN
SDNW 15–145,752
  • *Non-conference game
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming
  • Rankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

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Game summaries

At Kennesaw State

1234OT2OTTotal
Buccaneers03707320
Owls07037017

Vs. Western Carolina

1234Total
Catamounts71401031
Buccaneers010141034

At Wofford

1234Total
Buccaneers00000
Terriers14071031

Chattanooga

1234Total
#5 Mocs31414637
Buccaneers00077

At VMI

1234Total
Buccaneers00077
Keydets14133737

Furman

1234Total
Paladins211414352
Buccaneers00077

West Virginia Wesleyan

1234Total
Bobcats07007
Buccaneers71417038

At The Citadel

1234Total
Buccaneers073010
#5 Bulldogs141701445

At Mercer

1234Total
Buccaneers0013013
Bears0701421

Cumberland

1234Total
Phoenix790016
Buccaneers7160023

Samford

1234Total
#18 Bulldogs707014
Buccaneers036615

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