2016 Wofford Terriers football team

2016 Wofford Terriers football
Conference Southern Conference
Ranking
STATS No. 9
FCS Coaches No. 11
2016 record 10–4 (6–2 SoCon)
Head coach Mike Ayers (29th season)
Offensive coordinator Wade Lang (29th season)
Defensive coordinator Nathan Fuqua (12th season)
Home stadium Gibbs Stadium
(Capacity: 13,000)
2016 Southern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
#10 The Citadel $^  8 –0     10 –2  
#13 Chattanooga ^  6 –2     9 –4  
#9 Wofford ^  6 –2     10 –4  
#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 Wofford Terriers football team represented Wofford College in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 29th-year head coach Mike Ayers and played their home games at Gibbs Stadium. They were a member of the Southern Conference. They finished the season 10–4, 6–2 in SoCon play to finish in a tie for second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS playoffs where they defeated Charleston Southern and The Citadel in the first and second round, before losing to Youngstown State in the quarterfinals.

Schedule

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 1 7:00 PM at Tennessee Tech* Tucker Stadium • Cookeville, TN OVCDN W 21–7   9,066
September 10 4:00 PM at No. 19 (FBS) Ole Miss* Vaught–Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, MS SECN L 13–38   64,232
September 17 3:00 PM Johnson C. Smith* Gibbs Stadium • Spartanburg, SC ESPN3 W 59–0   5,417
September 24 1:30 PM East Tennessee State Gibbs Stadium • Spartanburg, SC ESPN3 W 31–0   7,316
October 1 3:00 PM at Samford Seibert Stadium • Homewood, AL ESPN3 L 26–28   8,509
October 8 7:00 PM at Western Carolina E. J. Whitmire Stadium • Cullowhee, NC ASN W 31–14   9,457
October 22 1:30 PM No. 5 The Citadeldagger Gibbs Stadium • Spartanburg, SC ESPN3 L 21–24 OT  11,102
October 29 1:30 PM Mercer Gibbs Stadium • Spartanburg, SC ESPN3 W 31–21   6,190
November 5 1:30 PM at Furman Paladin Stadium • Greenville, SC ESPN3 W 34–27   7,834
November 12 2:00 PM at No. 7 Chattanooga Finley Stadium • Chattanooga, TN SDN W 36–28   8,750
November 19 1:30 PM VMI No. 20 Gibbs Stadium • Spartanburg, SC ESPN3 W 17–0   8,102
November 26 1:00 PM No. 10 Charleston Southern* No. 19 Gibbs Stadium • Spartanburg, SC (FCS Playoffs First Round) ESPN3 W 15–14   2,605
December 3 6:00 PM at No. 6 The Citadel* No. 19 Johnson Hagood Stadium • Charleston, SC (FCS Playoffs Second Round) ESPN3 W 17–3   10,336
December 10 2:00 PM at No. 13 Youngstown State* No. 19 Stambaugh Stadium • Youngstown, OH (FCS Playoffs Quarterfinals) ESPN3 L 23–30 2OT  8,066
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from STATS FCS Poll released prior to game. All times are in Eastern Time.

Ranking movements

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Final 
STATS FCS RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV 20 19 9 
Coaches RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV RV 19 19 11

References

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