The 2016 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in the Coastal Division. The team was led by head coach David Cutcliffe, in his ninth year, and played its home games at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. They finished the season 4–8 overall and 1–7 in ACC play to tie for sixth place in the Coastal Division.
Schedule
Personnel
Roster
Coaching staff Name Position Seasons atDuke Alma mater David Cutcliffe Head Coach 9th Alabama (1976) Zac Roper Offensive Coordinator/The Baxter Family Associate head coach 9th Ole Miss (2001) Derek Jones Assistant Special Teams Coordinator/Defensive Backs 9th Ole Miss (1996) Jim Knowles Defensive Coordinator/ Inside Linebackers 6th Cornell (1987) Ben Albert Associate Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Line 1st Massachusetts (1995) Jim Bridge Special Teams Coordinator 1st Wittenberg (1992) Jim Collins Defensive ends 8th Elon (1974) Marcus Johnson Offensive line coach 5th Ole Miss (2004) Matt Guerrieri Safeties 5th Davidson (2011) Re'quan Boyette Running backs 4th Duke (2009) Jeffrey Faris Wide Receivers 5th Duke (2011) Josh Grizzard Offensive Graduate Assistant 4th Yale (2012) Eli Keimach Offensive Graduate Assistant 3rd Massachusetts (2014) Clayton McGrath Defensive tackles/Graduate Assistant 4th Brown University (2011) Sam McGrath Defensive Graduate Assistant 2nd Brown University (2012) Patrick O'Connor Defensive Quality Control 4th Dickinson College (2010)Reference:
Game summaries
North Carolina Central
Wake Forest
At Northwestern
At Notre Dame
Virginia
Army
At Louisville
At Georgia Tech
Virginia Tech
North Carolina
At Pittsburgh
At Miami (FL)
Team players in the NFL No Duke players were selected in the 2017 NFL draft.
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