2016 Duke Blue Devils football team explained

Year:2016
Team:Duke Blue Devils
Sport:football
Conference:Atlantic Coast Conference
Division:Coastal Division
Short Conf:ACC
Record:4–8
Conf Record:1–7
Head Coach:David Cutcliffe
Hc Year:9th
Off Coach:Zac Roper
Oc Year:1st
Off Scheme:Multiple
Def Coach:Jim Knowles
Dc Year:7th
Def Scheme:4–2–5
Mvp:Daniel Jones
Captain:Jela Duncan, DeVon Edwards, Thomas Sirk, A. J. Wolf
Stadium:Wallace Wade Stadium

The 2016 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in the Coastal Division. The team was led by head coach David Cutcliffe, in his ninth year, and played its home games at Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. They finished the season 4–8 overall and 1–7 in ACC play to tie for sixth place in the Coastal Division.

Schedule

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Personnel

Coaching staff

Name Position Seasons at
Duke
Alma Mater
9th Alabama (1976)
9th Ole Miss (2001)
Derek Jones 9th Ole Miss (1996)
Defensive Coordinator/ Inside Linebackers6th Cornell (1987)
Ben Albert 1st Massachusetts (1995)
Jim Bridge 1st Wittenberg (1992)
Jim Collins Defensive ends 8th Elon (1974)
Offensive line coach 5th Ole Miss (2004)
Matt Guerrieri 5th Davidson (2011)
Running backs 4th Duke (2009)
5th Duke (2011)
Josh GrizzardOffensive Graduate Assistant 4th Yale (2012)
Eli Keimach Offensive Graduate Assistant 3rd Massachusetts (2014)
Clayton McGrathDefensive tackles/Graduate Assistant 4th Brown University (2011)
Sam McGrathDefensive Graduate Assistant 2nd Brown University (2012)
Patrick O'Connor Defensive Quality Control 4th Dickinson College (2010)
Reference:[2]

Game summaries

North Carolina Central

See also: 2016 North Carolina Central Eagles football team.

Wake Forest

See also: 2016 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team.

At Northwestern

See also: 2016 Northwestern Wildcats football team.

At Notre Dame

See also: 2016 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team.

Virginia

See also: 2016 Virginia Cavaliers football team.

Army

See also: 2016 Army Black Knights football team.

At Louisville

See also: 2016 Louisville Cardinals football team.

At Georgia Tech

See also: 2016 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team.

Virginia Tech

See also: 2016 Virginia Tech Hokies football team.

North Carolina

See also: 2016 North Carolina Tar Heels football team and Victory Bell (Duke–North Carolina).

At Pittsburgh

See also: 2016 Pittsburgh Panthers football team.

At Miami (FL)

See also: 2016 Miami Hurricanes football team.

Team players in the NFL

No Duke players were selected in the 2017 NFL draft.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2016 Duke Blue Devils Football Schedule. FB Schedules. February 6, 2015.
  2. Web site: Football – 2016 Coaches. Duke University Department of Athletics. February 6, 2016.