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 consisted of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Green Wave hosted AAC foes Memphis, Navy, SMU, and Temple, and traveled to UCF, UConn, Houston, and Tulsa.
The team played four non–conference games, two of which were home games against Louisiana–Lafayette from the Sun Belt Conference and Southern from the Southwestern Athletic Conference, and two road game against UMass and traveled to Wake Forest from the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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. Schedule source:
Game summaries
Wake Forest
Southern
Navy
Louisiana–Lafayette
Massachusetts
Memphis
Tulsa
SMU
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.
Houston
Temple
UConn
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