2015 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 2015 Villanova Wildcats football team represented Villanova University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 31st-year head coach Andy Talley and played their home games at Villanova Stadium. They were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 6–5, 5–3 in CAA play to finish in a three way tie for fourth place.
| 2015 Villanova Wildcats football | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Conference | Colonial Athletic Association |
| 2015 record | 6–5 (5–3 CAA) |
| Head coach | Andy Talley (31st season) |
| Offensive coordinator | Sam Venuto (17th season) |
| Defensive coordinator | Billy Crocker (4th season) |
| Home stadium | Villanova Stadium (Capacity: 12,500) |
| 2015 Colonial Athletic Association football standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 4 Richmond +^ | 6 | – | 2 | 10 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 11 James Madison +^ | 6 | – | 2 | 9 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 12 William & Mary +^ | 6 | – | 2 | 9 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Towson | 5 | – | 3 | 7 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Hampshire ^ | 5 | – | 3 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Villanova | 5 | – | 3 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stony Brook | 3 | – | 5 | 5 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Delaware | 3 | – | 5 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elon | 3 | – | 5 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maine | 3 | – | 5 | 3 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Albany | 2 | – | 6 | 3 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rhode Island | 1 | – | 7 | 1 | – | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 3 | 7:30 PM | at UConn* | No. 4 | SNY/ESPN3 | L 15–20 | 26,113 | |
| September 12 | 6:00 PM | at No. 16 Fordham* | No. 6 | PLL | W 14–7 | 6,586 | |
| September 19 | 12:00 PM | Delaware | No. 6 | CSN | W 28–21 | 11,779 | |
| September 24 | 7:00 PM | Penn* | No. 5 |
| NNAA | L 13–24 | 5,727 |
| October 10 | 12:00 PM | William & Mary | No. 14 |
| CSN | L 16–38 | 5,809 |
| October 17 | 3:30 PM | at Albany | No. 25 | ASN | W 37–0 | 8,500 | |
| October 24 | 7:00 PM | at Towson | No. 23 | ASN | L 21–28 | 7,387 | |
| October 31 | 7:30 PM | Maine |
| NBCSN | W 13–3 | 4,309 | |
| November 7 | 12:30 PM | at Rhode Island | W 24–3 | 6,122 | |||
| November 14 | 3:30 PM | No. 9 Richmond |
| NNAA | W 21–20 | 6,211 | |
| November 21 | 12:00 PM | at No. 12 James Madison |
| CSN | L 29–38 | 17,028 | |
| |||||||
- Source: Schedule
Game summaries
at UConn
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #4 Wildcats | 0 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 15 |
| Huskies | 6 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 20 |
| Overall record | Last meeting | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 7–4 | 1999 | W 48–45 |
at Fordham
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #6 Wildcats | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| #16 Rams | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Overall record | Last meeting | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 21–5–3 | 2014 | W 50–6 |
Delaware
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fightin' Blue Hens | 10 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 21 |
| #6 Wildcats | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 28 |
| Overall record | Last meeting | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 26–21–1 | 2014 | W 35–28 |
Penn
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quakers | 7 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 24 |
| #5 Wildcats | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| Overall record | Last meeting | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 14–5 | 2014 | W 41–7 |
William & Mary
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tribe | 3 | 28 | 0 | 7 | 38 |
| #14 Wildcats | 10 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 16 |
| Overall record | Last meeting | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 15–16–1 | 2014 | W 35–31 |
at Albany
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #25 Wildcats | 10 | 0 | 14 | 13 | 37 |
| Great Danes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Overall record | Last meeting | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1–0 | 2014 | W 48–31 |
at Towson
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #23 Wildcats | 0 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
| Tigers | 12 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 28 |
| Overall record | Last meeting | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 7–4 | 2014 | W 42–14 |
Maine
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Bears | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Wildcats | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 13 |
| Overall record | Last meeting | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 9–9 | 2014 | W 41–20 |
at Rhode Island
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildcats | 7 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 24 |
| Rams | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Overall record | Last meeting | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 17–3 | 2014 | W 44–21 |
Richmond
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #9 Spiders | 0 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 20 |
| Wildcats | 0 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
| Overall record | Last meeting | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 21–11 | 2014 | L 9–10 |
at James Madison
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wildcats | 7 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 29 |
| #12 Dukes | 14 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 38 |
| Overall record | Last meeting | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 11–12 | 2014 | W 49–31 |
Ranking movements
| Week | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Final | |||||||
| STATS FCS | 4 | 6 (6) | 6 (4) | 5 (4) | 14 | 14 | 25 | 23 | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | ||||||||
| Coaches | 3 | 2–T | 3 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 24–T | 22 | RV | RV | RV | RV | NR | ||||||||
gollark: Er, I mean, crab crab crab praise Ferris bow before the borrow checker?
gollark: I do prefer nim use over rust now, not because I care about it being smaller but because it feels like a nicer language for my arbitrary purposes.
gollark: I love how minoteaur's very restrictive content security policy causes four warnings on every page load because of extensions unsafely injecting JS into the page.
gollark: You use the "up arrow" button to put the last line into your input prompt thing, and then press "home" to navigate to the start of that line.
gollark: Nope, they suggest you just use up arrow and home.
References
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.