2016 Georgia Southern Eagles football team
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| Conference | Sun Belt Conference |
| 2016 record | 0–0 (0–0 Sun Belt) |
| Head coach | Tyson Summers (1st year) |
| Co-offensive coordinator | Rance Gillespie (1st (4th overall) year) |
| Co-offensive coordinator | David Dean (1st year) |
| Offensive scheme | Spread Option |
| Defensive coordinator | Lorenzo Costantini (1st year) |
| Home stadium | Paulson Stadium (Capacity: 25,000) |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appalachian State | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arkansas State | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgia Southern | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgia State | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Idaho | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Louisiana–Lafayette | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Louisiana–Monroe | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Mexico State | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Alabama | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas State | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Troy | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2016 Georgia Southern Eagles football team will represent Georgia Southern University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Eagles will play their home games at Paulson Stadium in Statesboro, Georgia, and compete in the Sun Belt Conference. They will be led by first year head coach Tyson Summers.
Schedule
Georgia Southern announced its 2016 football schedule on March 3, 2016. The 2016 schedule consists of 5 home and 7 away games in the regular season. The Eagles will host Sun Belt foes Appalachian State, Louisiana–Lafayette, Louisiana–Monroe, and Troy, and will travel to Arkansas State, Georgia State, New Mexico State, and South Alabama. Georgia Southern will skip out on two Sun Belt teams this season, Idaho and Texas State.[1]
The team will play four non–conference games, one home game against Savannah State from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), and will travel to three road games against Georgia Tech from Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Ole Miss from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Western Michigan from the Mid-American Conference (MAC).
| Date | Time | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | ||
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| September 3 | Savannah State* | Paulson Stadium • Statesboro, GA | |||||||
| September 10 | at South Alabama | Ladd–Peebles Stadium • Mobile, AL | |||||||
| September 17 | Louisiana–Monroe | Paulson Stadium • Statesboro, GA | |||||||
| September 24 | at Western Michigan* | Waldo Stadium • Kalamazoo, MI | |||||||
| October 5 | at Arkansas State | Centennial Bank Stadium • Jonesboro, AR | |||||||
| October 15 | at Georgia Tech* | Bobby Dodd Stadium • Atlanta, GA | |||||||
| October 22 | at New Mexico State | Aggie Memorial Stadium • Las Cruces, NM | |||||||
| October 27 | Appalachian State | Paulson Stadium • Statesboro, GA (Rivalry) | |||||||
| November 5 | at Ole Miss* | Vaught–Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, MS | |||||||
| November 10 | Louisiana–Lafayette | Paulson Stadium • Statesboro, GA | |||||||
| November 19 | at Georgia State | Georgia Dome • Atlanta, GA (Rivalry) | |||||||
| December 3 | Troy | Paulson Stadium • Statesboro, GA | |||||||
*Non-conference game.  Homecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Eastern Time Zone. |
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- Schedule Source:[2]
