2016 Tulane Green Wave football team


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. 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 consists of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Green Wave will host AAC foes Memphis, Navy, SMU, and Temple, and will travel to UCF, UConn, Houston, and Tulsa.
The team will play four non–conference games, two of which are home games against Louisiana–Lafayette from the Sun Belt Conference and Southern from the Southwestern Athletic Conference, and two road game against Massachusetts and travel to Wake Forest from the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Game summaries

Wake Forest

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–01995Tulane, 35–9

Southern

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–02002Tulane, 37–19

Navy

Overall recordLast meetingResult
11–8–12015Navy, 31–14

Louisiana–Lafayette

Overall recordLast meetingResult
21–62013ULL, 24–21

Massachusetts

Memphis

Overall recordLast meetingResult
11–202015Memphis, 41–13

Tulsa

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–102015Tulsa, 45–34

SMU

Overall recordLast meetingResult
13–92015SMU, 49–21

UCF

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–52015Tulane, 45–31

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 of the fact that both teams, coincidentally, had scheduled bye weeks for that week.

Houston

Overall recordLast meetingResult
5–152015Houston, 42–7

Temple

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–12015Temple, 49–10

UConn

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–12015UConn, 7–3