2016 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team

2016 Mississippi State Bulldogs football

Conference	Southeastern Conference Western Division
2016 record	0–0 (0–0 SEC)
Head coach	Dan Mullen (8th year)
Co-offensive coordinator	Billy Gonzales (3rd as Co OC, 4th overall year)
Co-offensive coordinator	John Hevesy (3rd as Co OC, 8th overall year)
Defensive coordinator	Peter Sirmon (1st year)
Home stadium	Davis Wade Stadium (Capacity: 61,337)

2016 SEC football standings
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Eastern Division
Florida		0	–	0		0	–	0
Georgia		0	–	0		0	–	0
Kentucky		0	–	0		0	–	0
Missouri		0	–	0		0	–	0
South Carolina		0	–	0		0	–	0
Tennessee		0	–	0		0	–	0
Vanderbilt		0	–	0		0	–	0
Western Division
Alabama		0	–	0		0	–	0
Arkansas		0	–	0		0	–	0
Auburn		0	–	0		0	–	0
LSU		0	–	0		0	–	0
Mississippi State		0	–	0		0	–	0
Ole Miss		0	–	0		0	–	0
Texas A&M		0	–	0		0	–	0
Championship: December 3, 2016
$ – Conference champion x – Division champion/co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

The 2016 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team will represent Mississippi State University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Bulldogs will play their home games at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi, and compete in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They will be led by eighth year head coach Dan Mullen.

Schedule

Mississippi State announced its 2016 football schedule on October 29, 2015. The 2016 schedule consists of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Bulldogs will host SEC foes Arkansas, Auburn, South Carolina, and Texas A&M, and will travel to Alabama, Kentucky, LSU, and Ole Miss.^[1]

The Bulldogs will host the South Carolina Gamecocks for the first time since 2011. The team will travel to two Football Independent Schools, Massachusetts (UMass) for the first time and to Brigham Young (BYU) for the first time since 2000. Mississippi State will host the other two non–conference games against Samford of the Southern Conference and South Alabama of the Sun Belt Conference.

Date	Opponent^#	Site
September 3	South Alabama*	Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS
September 10	South Carolina	Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS
September 17	at LSU	Tiger Stadium • Baton Rouge, LA (Rivalry)
September 24	at Massachusetts*	Gillette Stadium • Foxborough, MA
October 8	Auburn	Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS
October 15	at BYU*	LaVell Edwards Stadium • Provo, UT
October 22	at Kentucky	Commonwealth Stadium • Lexington, KY (Rivalry)
October 29	Samford*	Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS
November 5	Texas A&M	Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS
November 12	at Alabama	Bryant–Denny Stadium • Tuscaloosa, AL (Rivalry)
November 19	Arkansas	Davis Wade Stadium • Starkville, MS
November 26	at Ole Miss	Vaught–Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, MS (Egg Bowl)
*Non-conference game. Homecoming. ^#Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Central Time.

Schedule Source:^[2]

Rankings

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	13	14	Final
AP
Coaches'
CFP	Not released															Not released

Game summaries

South Alabama

South Alabama at Mississippi State

	1	2	3	4	Total
Jaguars	0	0	0	0	0
Bulldogs	0	0	0	0	0

Date: September 3rd
Location: Starkville, Mississippi

Sources:

Overall Record	Previous Meeting	Previous Winner
2–0	September 13, 2014	Mississippi State, 35–3

The Bulldogs will begin the 2016 campaign at home against South Alabama. The contest will be the third ever between the Bulldogs and Jaguars. The two met previously in 2012 and 2014 with Mississippi State winning both.

South Carolina

South Carolina at Mississippi State

	1	2	3	4	Total
Gamecocks	0	0	0	0	0
Bulldogs	0	0	0	0	0

Date: September 10th
Location: Starkville, Mississippi

Sources:

Overall Record	Previous Meeting	Previous Winner
6–9	November 2, 2013	South Carolina, 34–16

In the second game of the season Mississippi State will host conference foe South Carolina. The Bulldogs were defeated by the Gamecocks in their last meeting in 2013. It was the Bulldogs' seventh loss in a row against the Gamecocks. The Bulldogs have not beaten the Gamecocks since the 1999 contest.

Louisiana State

Mississippi State at LSU

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	0	0	0	0	0
Tigers	0	0	0	0	0

Date: September 17th
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Sources:

Overall Record	Previous Meeting	Previous Winner
34–72–3	September 12, 2015	LSU, 21–19

The Bulldogs will travel to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to face the Tigers of LSU in their first matchup on the road. Mississippi State lost to Tigers last season by two points when a field goal attempt as time expired was no good. The Bulldogs will look to try to win back-to-back games in Baton Rouge for the first time since the 1981 & 1983 contests.

Massachusetts

Mississippi State at UMass

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	0	0	0	0	0
Minutemen	0	0	0	0	0

Date: September 24th
Location: Foxborough, Massachusetts

Sources:

Overall Record	Previous Meeting	Previous Winner
First Meeting

The Bulldogs will then travel to the northeast for the first time since 1986 when they played against Syracuse in New York. UMass will host Mississippi State in the first ever matchup between the two programs at Gillette Stadium (home of the New England Patriots) in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

Auburn

Auburn at Mississippi State

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	0	0	0	0	0
Bulldogs	0	0	0	0	0

Date: October 8th
Location: Starkville, Mississippi

Sources:

Overall Record	Previous Meeting	Previous Winner
26–61–2	September 26, 2015	Mississippi State, 17–9

Mississippi State will host their third home game of the season against the Auburn Tigers. The 2015 meeting in Auburn saw the Bulldogs defeated the Tigers 17–9 while holding Auburn without a touchdown. Mississippi State will look to get 3 straight victories against Auburn for the first time since defeating the Tigers in four consecutive contests from 1997-2000. The last time the two teams met at Davis Wade Stadium (in 2014) both were ranked in the top 5 and the game set the current attendance record at 62,945.

Brigham Young

Mississippi State at BYU

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	0	0	0	0	0
Cougars	0	0	0	0	0

Date: October 15th
Location: Provo, Utah

Sources:

Overall Record	Previous Meeting	Previous Winner
1–1	December 1, 2001	BYU, 41–38

The Bulldogs will travel to Utah to face BYU in Provo. The squads split the previous two meetings with MSU winning in Provo in 2000 and BYU winning in Starkville in 2001. Mississippi State was defeated by 3 points in a game that was moved to the end of the season due to the September 11 attacks.

Kentucky

Mississippi State at Kentucky

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	0	0	0	0	0
Wildcats	0	0	0	0	0

Date: October 22th
Location: Lexington, Kentucky

Sources:

Overall Record	Previous Meeting	Previous Winner
22–21	October 24, 2015	Mississippi State, 42–16

Mississippi State will next travel to Kentucky. The Bulldogs have won 7 straight in the series two and coach Dan Mullen has never lost to the Wildcats as a head coach. The previous matchup between the two teams at Commonwealth Stadium in 2014 marked the first time that Mississippi State competed as the #1 team in the country in program history.

References

↑ "MSU, SEC ANNOUNCE 2016 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE" (Press release). Mississippi State University Department of Athletics. October 29, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
↑ "2016 Mississippi State Bulldogs Football Schedule". FB Schedules. Retrieved October 29, 2015.

Mississippi State Bulldogs football

Venues	Davis Wade Stadium (1914–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Alabama Kentucky LSU Ole Miss: Egg Bowl

Culture & lore	Bully "Hail State" Famous Maroon Band

People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders

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