2016 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team

2016 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football
Conference Southern Conference
2016 record 5–6 (2–6 SoCon)
Head coach Carl Torbush (2nd year)
Offensive coordinator Mike O'Cain (2nd year)
Defensive coordinator Billy Taylor (2nd year)
Home stadium Kermit Tipton Stadium
(Capacity: 6,600)
2016 Southern Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
#6 The Citadel $^   8 0         10 2  
#11 Chattanooga ^   6 2         9 4  
#19 Wofford ^   6 2         10 3  
#23 Samford ^   5 3         7 5  
Mercer   4 4         6 5  
Furman   3 5         3 8  
East Tennessee State   2 6         5 6  
VMI   1 7         3 8  
Western Carolina   1 7         2 9  
  • $ Conference champion
  • ^ FCS playoff participant
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

The 2016 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team represents East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season and are in the first year of their second stint as football members of the Southern Conference (SoCon). ETSU had originally joined the SoCon in 1978, with football joining in 1979, but dropped the sport after the 2003 season and left the conference entirely in 2005. ETSU returned to the SoCon as a full but non-football member in 2014, at that time announcing that the school would reinstate football with play beginning in the 2015 season. The Buccaneers played that season as an FCS independent.

They are led by second-year head coach Carl Torbush and will play all but one of their home games at Kermit Tipton Stadium. The other home game, the Buccaneers' first SoCon game since 2003, will be held at the nearby Bristol Motor Speedway on September 17. The game will be played on a temporary grass surface that will be laid down for the TennesseeVirginia Tech game to be held one week earlier. They finished the season 5–6, 2–6 in SoCon play to finish in seventh place.

Schedule

Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance
September 3 7:00 PM at Kennesaw State* Fifth Third Bank StadiumKennesaw, GA WPCH W 20–17 2OT  8,574
September 17 1:30 PM vs. Western Carolina Bristol Motor SpeedwayBristol, TN (Bucs at Bristol) ESPN3 W 34–31   13,863
September 24 1:30 PM at Wofford Gibbs StadiumSpartanburg, SC ESPN3 L 0–31   7,316
October 1 12:00 PM No. 5 Chattanooga Kermit Tipton StadiumJohnson City, TN SDN L 7–37   7,411
October 8 1:30 PM at VMI Alumni Memorial FieldLexington, VA ESPN3 L 7–37   5,638
October 15 12:00 PM Furman Kermit Tipton Stadium • Johnson City, TN SDN L 7–52   6,052
October 20 7:30 PM West Virginia Wesleyan* Kermit Tipton Stadium • Johnson City, TN SDN W 38–7   6,196
October 29 2:00 PM at No. 5 The Citadel Johnson Hagood StadiumCharleston, SC ESPN3 L 10–45   12,978
November 5 3:00 PM at Mercer Moye ComplexMacon, GA FSN L 13–21   10,913
November 12 1:00 PM Cumberland*dagger Kermit Tipton Stadium • Johnson City, TN SDN W 23–16   6,735
November 19 3:30 PM No. 18 Samford Kermit Tipton Stadium • Johnson City, TN SDN W 15–14   5,752
daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from STATS FCS Poll released prior to game. All times are in Eastern Standard Time.

Game summaries

at Kennesaw State

1 2 3 4OT2OT Total
Buccaneers 0 3 7 073 20
Owls 0 7 0 370 17
Overall record Previous meeting Result
0–1 2015 L 16–56

vs. Western Carolina

1 2 3 4 Total
Catamounts 7 14 0 10 31
Buccaneers 0 10 14 10 34
Overall record Previous meeting Result
21–23–1 2003 L 21–28

at Wofford

1 2 3 4 Total
Buccaneers 0 0 0 0 0
Terriers 14 0 7 10 31
Overall record Previous meeting Result
13–11 2003 L 14–28

Chattanooga

1 2 3 4 Total
#5 Mocs 3 14 14 6 37
Buccaneers 0 0 0 7 7
Overall record Previous meeting Result
18–20–1 2003 W 68–7

at VMI

1 2 3 4 Total
Buccaneers 0 0 0 7 7
Keydets 14 13 3 7 37
Overall record Previous meeting Result
13–8 2002 W 35–21

Furman

1 2 3 4 Total
Paladins 21 14 14 3 52
Buccaneers 0 0 0 7 7
Overall record Previous meeting Result
7–23 2003 L 10–30

West Virginia Wesleyan

1 2 3 4 Total
Bobcats 0 7 0 0 7
Buccaneers 7 14 17 0 38
Overall record Previous meeting Result
First meeting

at The Citadel

1 2 3 4 Total
Buccaneers 0 7 3 0 10
#5 Bulldogs 14 17 0 14 45
Overall record Previous meeting Result
15–9 2003 W 16–13

at Mercer

1 2 3 4 Total
Buccaneers 0 0 13 0 13
Bears 0 7 0 14 21
Overall record Previous meeting Result
0–1 2015 L 0–52

Cumberland

1 2 3 4 Total
Phoenix 7 9 0 0 16
Buccaneers 7 16 0 0 23
Overall record Previous meeting Result
6–1 1947 W 38–0

Samford

1 2 3 4 Total
#18 Bulldogs 7 0 7 0 14
Buccaneers 0 3 6 6 15
Overall record Previous meeting Result
0–3 1991 L 6–31

References

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