# 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 (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 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 UMass and travel to Wake Forest from the Atlantic Coast Conference.
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| September 1 | 6:00 pm | at Wake Forest* | BB&T FieldWinston-Salem, NC | ESPN3 | L 3–7 | 24,398 |
| September 10 | 7:00 pm | Southern* | Yulman StadiumNew Orleans, LA | ESPN3 | W 66–21 | 27,179 |
| September 17 | 6:00 pm | Navy | Yulman StadiumNew Orleans, LA | ASN | L 14–21 | 21,503 |
| September 24 | 7:00 pm | Louisiana–Lafayette* | Yulman StadiumNew Orleans, LA | ESPN3 | W 41–39 $^{4OT}$ | 24,253 |
| October 1 | 2:30 pm | at UMass* | Warren McGuirk Alumni StadiumHadley, MA | ASN | W 31–24 | 14,892 |
| October 14 | 7:00 pm | Memphis | Yulman StadiumNew Orleans, LA | ESPNU | L 14–24 | 21,098 |
| October 22 | 2:45 pm | at Tulsa | Chapman StadiumTulsa, OK | ESPNU | L 27–50 | 22,349 |
| October 29 | 3:00 pm | SMU | Yulman StadiumNew Orleans, LA | ESPNews | L 31–35 | 25,780 |
| November 5 | 5:00 pm | at UCF | Bright House Networks StadiumOrlando, FL | ESPN3 | L 6–37 | 31,571 |
| November 12 | 2:30 pm | at Houston | TDECU StadiumHouston, TX | CBSSN | L 18–30 | 36,552 |
| November 19 | 2:30 pm | Temple | Yulman StadiumNew Orleans, LA | ASN | L 0–31 | 16,497 |
| November 26 | 3:00 pm | at UConn | Rentschler FieldEast Hartford, CT | ESPNews | W 38–13 | 20,764 |
| *Non-conference gameHomecomingAll times are in Central time |||||||
    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

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Tulane | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Wake Forest | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
at BB&T Field • Winston-Salem, North Carolina
* Date: September 1, 2016
* Game time: 7:00 p.m. EDT
* Game attendance: 24,398
* TV announcers (ESPN3): Taylor Zarzour and Al Groh

### Southern

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Southern | 7 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 21 |
| Tulane | 28 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 66 |
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
* Date: September 10, 2016
* Game time: 7:00 p.m. CDT
* Game attendance: 27,179
* TV announcers (ESPN3): Joel Meyers and Brian Kinchen

### Navy

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Navy | 0 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 21 |
| Tulane | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
* Date: September 17, 2016
* Game time: 6:00 p.m. CDT
* Game attendance: 21,503
* TV announcers (ASN): Mike Gleason, Derrick Lewis, and Kathryn Pielech

### Louisiana–Lafayette

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | OT | 2OT | 3OT | 4OT | Total |
| UL-Lafayette | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 39 |
| Tulane | 0 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 41 |
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
* Date: September 24, 2016
* Game time: 7:00 p.m. CDT
* Game attendance: 24,253
* TV announcers (ESPN3): Joel Meyers and Chad Brown

### Massachusetts

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Tulane | 7 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 31 |
| UMass | 14 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 24 |
at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium • Hadley, Massachusetts
* Date: October 1, 2016
* Game time: 3:30 p.m. EDT
* TV announcers (ESPN3/ASN): Eric Frede and Andy Gresh

### Memphis

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Memphis | 3 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 24 |
| Tulane | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 14 |
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
* Date: October 14, 2016
* Game time: 7:00 p.m. CDT
* TV announcers (ESPNU): Roy Philpott and Charles Arbuckle

### Tulsa

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Tulane | 7 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 27 |
| Tulsa | 14 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 50 |
at Chapman Stadium • Tulsa, Oklahoma
* Date: October 22, 2016
* Game time: 2:45 p.m. CDT
* Game attendance: 22,349
* TV announcers (ESPNU): Eamon McAnaney and John Congemi

### SMU

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| SMU | 14 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 35 |
| Tulane | 7 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 31 |
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
* Date: October 29, 2016
* Game time: 3:00 p.m. CDT
* Game attendance: 25,780
* TV announcers (ESPNews): Dave LaMont and Brian Kinchen

### UCF

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Tulane | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| UCF | 0 | 7 | 13 | 17 | 37 |
at Bright House Networks Stadium • Orlando, Florida
* Date: November 5, 2016
* Game time: 4:00 p.m. EDT
* TV announcers (ESPN3): Alex Faust and Forrest Conoly
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

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Tulane | 7 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 18 |
| Houston | 14 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 30 |
at TDECU Stadium • Houston, Texas
* Date: November 12, 2016
* Game time: 2:30 p.m. CST
* Game attendance: 36,552
* TV announcers (CBSSN): Dave Ryan, Corey Chavous, and Melanie Collins

### Temple

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Temple | 7 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 31 |
| Tulane | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
* Date: November 19, 2016
* Game time: 2:30pm CST
* Game attendance: 16,497
* TV announcers (ESPN3/ASN): Jeff McCarragher and Michael Young

### UConn

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Tulane | 10 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 38 |
| UConn | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
at Rentschler Field • East Hartford, Connecticut
* Date: November 26, 2016
* Game time: 4:00 p.m. EST
* TV announcers (ESPN3/ESPNews): Chris Hassel and Matt Chatham