2016 Georgia Southern Eagles football team

The 2016 Georgia Southern Eagles football team represented Georgia Southern University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Eagles played their home games at Paulson Stadium in Statesboro, Georgia, and competed in the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by first-year head coach Tyson Summers. They finished the season 5–7, 4–4 in Sun Belt play to finish in sixth place.

2016 Georgia Southern Eagles football
ConferenceSun Belt Conference
2016 record5–7 (4–4 Sun Belt)
Head coach
Co-offensive coordinatorRance Gillespie (1st season)
Co-offensive coordinatorDavid Dean (1st season)
Offensive schemeSpread option
Defensive coordinatorLorenzo Costantini (1st season)
Home stadiumPaulson Stadium
(Capacity: 25,000)
2016 Sun Belt Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
Appalachian State +  7 1     10 3  
Arkansas State +  7 1     8 5  
Troy  6 2     10 3  
Idaho  6 2     9 4  
Louisiana–Lafayette  5 3     6 7  
Georgia Southern  4 4     5 7  
Louisiana–Monroe  3 5     4 8  
South Alabama  2 6     6 7  
Georgia State  2 6     3 9  
New Mexico State  2 6     3 9  
Texas State  0 8     2 10  
  • + Conference co-champions

Schedule

Georgia Southern announced its 2016 football schedule on March 3, 2016. The 2016 schedule consists of 5 home and 7 away games in the regular season. The Eagles will host Sun Belt foes Appalachian State, Louisiana–Lafayette, Louisiana–Monroe, and Troy, and will travel to Arkansas State, Georgia State, New Mexico State, and South Alabama. Georgia Southern will skip out on two Sun Belt teams this season, Idaho and Texas State.[1]

The team will play four non–conference games, one home game against Savannah State from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), and will travel to three road games against Georgia Tech from Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Ole Miss from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Western Michigan from the Mid-American Conference (MAC).

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
September 36:00 pmSavannah State*ESPN3W 54–021,250
September 107:00 pmat South AlabamaASNW 24–917,691
September 176:00 pmLouisiana–Monroe
  • Paulson Stadium
  • Statesboro, GA
ESPN3W 23–2125,735
September 247:00 pmat Western Michigan*ESPN3L 31–4917,209
October 58:00 pmat Arkansas StateESPN2L 26–2719,381
October 1512:30 pmat Georgia Tech*ACCRSNL 24–3547,609
October 228:00 pmat New Mexico StateFSAZ/FSSWW 22–1910,085
October 277:30 pmAppalachian State
  • Paulson Stadium
  • Statesboro, GA (rivalry)
ESPNUL 10–3423,474
November 512:00 pmat Ole Miss*ESPNUL 27–3760,263
November 107:30 pmLouisiana–Lafayette
  • Paulson Stadium
  • Statesboro, GA
ESPNUL 26–3316,786
November 192:00 pmat Georgia State
ESPN3L 24–3023,513
December 312:00 pmTroy
  • Paulson Stadium
  • Statesboro, GA
ESPN2W 28–2416,850
Schedule Source:[2]

Game summaries

Savannah State

Week One: Savannah State Tigers at Georgia Southern Eagles – Game summary
1 2 34Total
Tigers 0 0 000
Eagles 21 7 19754

at Paulson Stadium, Statesboro, GA

Game information

@ South Alabama

Week Two: Georgia Southern Eagles at South Alabama Jaguars – Game summary
1 2 34Total
Eagles 10 0 7724
Jaguars 3 3 039

at Ladd–Peebles Stadium, Mobile, AL

Game information

Louisiana–Monroe

Week Three: Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks at Georgia Southern Eagles – Game summary
1 2 34Total
Warhawks 14 0 0721
Eagles 7 3 6723

at Paulson Stadium, Statesboro, GA

Game information

@ Western Michigan

Week Four: Georgia Southern Eagles at Western Michigan Broncos – Game summary
1 2 34Total
Eagles 7 10 7731
Broncos 7 28 7749

at Waldo Stadium, Kalamazoo, MI

Game information

@ Arkansas State

Week Six: Georgia Southern Eagles at Arkansas State Red Wolves – Game summary
1 2 34Total
Eagles 7 6 10326
Red Wolves 0 10 71027

at Centennial Bank Stadium, Jonesboro, AR

Game information

@ Georgia Tech

Week Seven: Georgia Southern Eagles at Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets – Game summary
1 2 34Total
Eagles 7 3 01424
Yellow Jackets 21 0 01435

at Bobby Dodd Stadium, Atlanta, GA

Game information

@ New Mexico State

Week Eight: Georgia Southern Eagles at New Mexico State Aggies – Game summary
1 2 34Total
Eagles 3 3 31322
Aggies 0 9 3719

at Aggie Memorial Stadium, Las Cruces, NM

Game information

Appalachian State

Week Nine: Appalachian State Mountaineers at Georgia Southern Eagles – Game summary
1 2 34Total
Mountaineers 0 10 101434
Eagles 10 0 0010

at Paulson Stadium, Statesboro, GA

Game information

@ Ole Miss

Week Ten: Georgia Southern Eagles at Ole Miss Rebels – Game summary
1 2 34Total
Eagles 14 7 3327
Rebels 3 28 3337

at Vaught–Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, MS

  • Date: November 5
  • Game time: 12:00 PM EDT
  • TV: ESPNU
Game information

Louisiana–Lafayette

Week Eleven: Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns at Georgia Southern Eagles – Game summary
1 2 34Total
Ragin' Cajuns 7 14 10233
Eagles 3 10 01326

at Paulson Stadium, Statesboro, GA

  • Date: November 10
  • Game time: 7:30 PM EST
  • TV: ESPNU
Game information

@ Georgia State

Week Twelve: Georgia Southern Eagles at Georgia State Panthers – Game summary
1 2 34Total
Eagles 7 10 0724
Panthers 20 0 10030

at Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA

  • Date: November 19
  • Game time: 2:00 P.M. EST
  • Game weather: Played indoors (dome stadium)
  • Game attendance: 23,513
Game information

Troy

Week Fourteen: Troy Trojans at Georgia Southern Eagles – Game summary
1 2 34Total
Trojans 3 7 7724
Eagles 0 7 14728

at Paulson Stadium, Statesboro, GA

  • Date: December 3
  • Game time: 12:00 PM EST
  • Game attendance: 16,850
  • TV: ESPN2
Game information

References

  1. "2016 Georgia Southern Football Schedule Set For Summers' Debut Season" (Press release). Georgia Southern University Department of Athletics. March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
  2. "2016 Georgia Southern Eagles Football Schedule". FB Schedules. Retrieved March 14, 2016.


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