2016 Conference USA football season

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2016 Southeastern Conference football season
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League NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision)
Sport Football
Duration September 1, 2016
through January 2017
Number of teams 13
CUSA Championship Game
Football seasons
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2017 →
2016 Conference USA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
East Division
Charlotte   0 – 0         0 – 0  
FIU   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Florida Atlantic   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Marshall   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Middle Tennessee   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Old Dominion   0 – 0         0 – 0  
WKU   0 – 0         0 – 0  
West Division
Louisiana Tech   0 – 0         0 – 0  
North Texas   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Rice   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Southern Miss   0 – 0         0 – 0  
UTEP   0 – 0         0 – 0  
UTSA   0 – 0         0 – 0  
Championship: December 3, 2016
  • $ – Conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll


The 2016 Conference USA football season will represent the 21st season of Conference USA football taking place during the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season will begin on September 1 with Charlotte facing Louisville.[1] This is the second season for the CUSA under realignment that took place in 2014 which added the fourteenth member Charlotte from the Atlantic 10 Conference. The CUSA is a "Group of Five" conference under the College Football Playoff format along with the American Athletic Conference, the Mid-American Conference, the Mountain West Conference, and the Sun Belt Conference.

CUSA consists of 14 members: Charlotte, FIU, Florida Atlantic, Louisiana Tech, Marshall, Middle Tennessee, North Texas, Old Dominion, Rice, Southern Miss, UAB, UTEP, UTSA, and Western Kentucky; and is split up into the East and West divisions, with the champion of each division meeting at the home field at the team with the best conference record to compete for the Conference USA Championship on December 3. UAB is continually undergoing reinstating its football program during the 2016 season and will begin play for the 2017 season.[2]

Western Kentucky enters the season as defending Conference USA champions as they defeated Southern Miss in the previous year's championship game. The Hilltoppers would then go on to defeat South Florida in the Miami Beach Bowl 45–35.[3]

Head Coaches

Three Conference USA teams hired new head coaches for the 2016 season. All three were in the West Division, and all three were replacing coaches who had spent at least 3 seasons at their respective schools.

  • North Texas hired Seth Littrell to replace Dan McCarney, who was fired after the Mean Green lost to Portland State on October 10, 2015.[4] Mike Canales was promoted as interim head coach after the fire until the hire of Littrell. Seth is coming from being a Assistant Head Coach for Offense and Tight Ends Coach at North Carolina. Littrell was hired on December 5, 2015.[5]
  • UTSA hired Frank Wilson to replace Larry Coker, who resigned on January 5, 2016. Wilson is come from being a Running Backs Coach and a Recruiting Coordinator at LSU for 7 seasons. Frank was hired on January 14, 2016.[8]

Note: All stats shown are before the beginning of the season.

Team Head coach Years at school Overall record Record at school CUSA record
Charlotte Brad Lambert 4 12–22 12–22 0–8
FIU Ron Turner 4 55–82 10–26 7–17
Florida Atlantic Charlie Partridge 3 6–18 6–18 5–11
Louisiana Tech Skip Holtz 4 110–88 22–17 16–8
Marshall Doc Holliday 7 50–28 50–28 33–15
Middle Tennessee Rick Stockstill 11 64–61 64–61 17–7
North Texas Seth Littrell 1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Old Dominion Bobby Wilder 8 57–27 57–27 7–9
Rice David Bailiff 10 74–75 53–60 37–35
Southern Miss Jay Hopson 1 32–17 0–0 0–0
UTEP Sean Kugler 4 14–23 14–23 9–15
UTSA Frank Wilson 1 0–0 0–0 0–0
Western Kentucky Jeff Brohm 3 20–7 20–7 12–14

CUSA vs other Conferences

CUSA vs Power Conference matchups

This is a list of the power conference teams (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12) the SEC plays in non-conference (Rankings from the AP Poll):

Date Visitor Home Site Score
September 1 Charlotte Louisville Papa John's Cardinal Stadium • Louisville, KY
September 1 Indiana FIU FIU Stadium • Miami, FL
September 3 Louisiana Tech Arkansas Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium • Fayetteville, AR
September 3 Southern Miss Kentucky Commonwealth Stadium • Lexington, KY
September 10 Maryland FIU FIU Stadium • Miami, FL
September 10 Florida Atlantic Miami New Miami Stadium • Miami Gardens, FL
September 10 Middle Tennessee Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Stadium • Nashville, TN
September 10 UTEP Texas Darrell K. Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium • Austin, TX
September 10 WKU Alabama Bryant–Denny Stadium • Tuscaloosa, AL
September 17 Florida Atlantic BYU Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium • Manhattan, KS
September 17 Louisiana Tech Texas Tech Jones AT&T Stadium • Lubbock, TX
September 17 North Texas Florida Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, FL
September 17 Old Dominion NC State Carter–Finley Stadium • Raleigh, NC
September 17 Baylor Rice Rice Stadium • Houston, TX
September 17 Arizona State UTSA Alamodome • San Antonio, TX
September 24 Vanderbilt WKU Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium • Bowling Green, KY
October 1 Marshall Pittsburgh Heinz Field • Pittsburgh, PA
October 15 Southern Miss LSU Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, LA
October 22 Middle Tennessee Missouri Faurot Field • Columbia, MO
November 19 UTSA Texas A&M Kyle Field • College Station, TX
November 26 Rice Stanford Stanford Stadium • Stanford, CA

2016 records against non-conference opponents

Home game attendance

Team Stadium Capacity Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4 Game 5 Game 6 Game 7 Total Average % of Capacity
Charlotte Jerry Richardson Stadium 15,314 —
FIU FIU Stadium 20,000
Florida Atlantic FAU Stadium 29,419 —
Louisiana Tech Joe Aillet Stadium 27,717 — —
Marshall Joan C. Edwards Stadium 38,227
Middle Tennessee Johnny "Red" Floyd Stadium 30,788 — —
North Texas Apogee Stadium 30,850 —
Old Dominion Foreman Field 20,118 —
Rice Rice Stadium 47,000 —
Southern Miss M. M. Roberts Stadium 36,000 —
UTEP Sun Bowl Stadium 51,500
UTSA Alamodome 65,000 —
WKU Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium 22,113 —

References

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  7. ↑ "Southern Miss hires Alcorn State's Jay Hopson as new head coach" Sun Herald. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
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