The 2016 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team represented Coastal Carolina University as an independent the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by fifth-year head coach Joe Moglia, the Chanticleers compiled a record of 10–2. Coastal Carolina played home games at Brooks Stadium in Conway, South Carolina.
The Chanticleers joined the Sun Belt Conference in July 2016, initially as a full but non-football member. The football program began transition to the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), joining Sun Belt football in 2017 and gaining full FBS membership and bowl eligibility in 2018.
Schedule
Ranking movements
Due to their transition to FBS, Coastal Carolina was not eligible to be ranked in the FCS Coaches Poll.
Game summaries At Lamar
Florida A&M
At Jacksonville State
Furman
Charleston Southern
At Gardner–Webb
Central Connecticut
At Presbyterian
Monmouth
Bryant
Liberty
Hampton
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