2016 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team

The 2016 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team represented Appalachian State University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Mountaineers played their home games at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone, North Carolina and competed in the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by fourth-year head coach Scott Satterfield. They finished the season 10–3, 7–1 in Sun Belt play to win a share of the Sun Belt championship with Arkansas State. They were invited to the Camellia Bowl where they defeated Toledo.

2016 Appalachian State Mountaineers football
Sun Belt co-champion Camellia Bowl champion
Camellia Bowl, W 31–28 vs. Toledo
Conference	Sun Belt Conference
2016 record	10–3 (7–1 Sun Belt)
Head coach	Scott Satterfield (4th season)
Offensive coordinator	Frank Ponce (passing game; 4th year) Shawn Clark (running game; 1st year)
Defensive coordinator	Nate Woody (4th season)
Home stadium	Kidd Brewer Stadium (Capacity: 24,050)

2016 Sun Belt Conference football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Appalachian State +		7	–	1					10	–	3
Arkansas State +		7	–	1					8	–	5
Troy		6	–	2					10	–	3
Idaho		6	–	2					9	–	4
Louisiana–Lafayette		5	–	3					6	–	7
Georgia Southern		4	–	4					5	–	7
Louisiana–Monroe		3	–	5					4	–	8
South Alabama		2	–	6					6	–	7
Georgia State		2	–	6					3	–	9
New Mexico State		2	–	6					3	–	9
Texas State		0	–	8					2	–	10
+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Appalachian State announced its 2016 football schedule on March 3, 2016. The 2016 schedule consists of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Mountaineers will host Sun Belt foes Georgia State, Idaho, Louisiana–Monroe, and Texas State, and will travel to Georgia Southern, Louisiana–Lafayette, New Mexico State, and Troy. Appalachian State will skip out on two Sun Belt teams this season, Arkansas State and South Alabama.[1]

The team will play four non–conference games, two home games against Miami from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and Old Dominion from Conference USA, and two road games against Akron from the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and Tennessee from the Southeastern Conference (SEC).

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 1	7:30 p.m.	at No. 9 Tennessee*	Neyland Stadium Knoxville, TN	SECN	L 13–20 ^OT	100,074
September 10	3:30 p.m.	Old Dominion*	Kidd Brewer Stadium Boone, NC	ASN	W 31–7	23,374
September 17	Noon	No. 25 Miami (FL)*	Kidd Brewer Stadium Boone, NC	ESPN	L 10–45	34,658
September 24	3:30 p.m.	at Akron*	InfoCision Stadium Akron, OH	ASN	W 45–38	15,381
October 1	Noon	Georgia State	Kidd Brewer Stadium Boone, NC	ASN	W 17–3	24,782
October 12	8:00 p.m.	at Louisiana–Lafayette	Cajun Field Lafayette, LA	ESPN2	W 24–0	16,960
October 22	3:30 p.m.	Idaho	Kidd Brewer Stadium Boone, NC	ESPN3	W 37–19	26,931
October 27	7:30 p.m.	at Georgia Southern	Paulson Stadium Statesboro, GA (rivalry)	ESPNU	W 34–10	23,474
November 5	3:30 p.m.	Texas State	Kidd Brewer Stadium Boone, NC	ESPN3	W 35–10	28,472
November 12	3:30 p.m.	at Troy	Veterans Memorial Stadium Troy, AL	ESPN3	L 24–28	25,782
November 19	2:30 p.m.	Louisiana–Monroe	Kidd Brewer Stadium Boone, NC	ESPN3	W 42–17	18,699
November 26	4:00 p.m.	at New Mexico State	Aggie Memorial Stadium Las Cruces, NM	ESPN3	W 37–7	5,366
December 17	5:30 p.m.	vs. Toledo*	Cramton Bowl Montgomery, AL (Camellia Bowl)	ESPN	W 31–28	20,257
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game All times are in Eastern time

Schedule Source:[2]

Game summaries

at Tennessee

	1	2	3	4	OT	Total
Mountaineers	7	6	0	0	0	13
#9 Volunteers	3	0	3	7	7	20

See also: 2016 Tennessee Volunteers football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
First meeting

Old Dominion

	1	2	3	4	Total
Monarchs	0	7	0	0	7
Mountaineers	14	10	0	7	31

See also: 2016 Old Dominion Monarchs football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
1–0	2015	APST, 49–0

Miami (FL)

	1	2	3	4	Total
#25 Hurricanes	21	3	7	14	45
Mountaineers	0	3	7	0	10

See also: 2016 Miami Hurricanes football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
First meeting

at Akron

	1	2	3	4	Total
Mountaineers	10	21	7	7	45
Zips	0	14	10	14	38

See also: 2016 Akron Zips football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
First meeting

Georgia State

	1	2	3	4	Total
Panthers	0	0	0	3	3
Mountaineers	0	0	7	10	17

See also: 2016 Georgia State Panthers football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
2–0	2015	APST, 37–3

at Louisiana–Lafayette

	1	2	3	4	Total
Mountaineers	10	14	0	0	24
Ragin' Cajuns	0	0	0	0	0

See also: 2016 Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
2–0	2015	APST, 28–7

Idaho

	1	2	3	4	Total
Vandals	0	6	3	10	19
Mountaineers	10	0	13	14	37

See also: 2016 Idaho Vandals football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
2–0	2015	APST, 47–20

at Georgia Southern

	1	2	3	4	Total
Mountaineers	0	10	10	14	34
Eagles	10	0	0	0	10

See also: 2016 Georgia Southern Eagles football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
16–12–1	2015	APST, 31–13

Texas State

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bobcats	3	0	7	0	10
Mountaineers	7	21	7	0	35

See also: 2016 Texas State Bobcats football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
1–0	2004	APST, 41–34

at Troy

	1	2	3	4	Total
Mountaineers	0	14	3	7	24
Trojans	14	0	7	7	28

See also: 2016 Troy Trojans football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
3–2	2015	APST, 44–41

Louisiana–Monroe

	1	2	3	4	Total
Warhawks	3	7	0	7	17
Mountaineers	14	7	14	7	42

See also: 2016 Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
2–0	2015	APST, 59–14

at New Mexico State

	1	2	3	4	Total
Mountaineers	17	3	10	7	37
Aggies	0	7	0	0	7

See also: 2016 New Mexico State Aggies football team

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
First meeting

Toledo–Camellia Bowl

	1	2	3	4	Total
Mountaineers	7	7	14	3	31
Rockets	7	7	14	0	28

See also: 2016 Toledo Rockets football team and 2016 Camellia Bowl

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
First meeting

Roster

2016 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team roster
Players			Coaches
Offense Pos. # Name Class WR 2 Ike Lewis Jr QB 2 Zeb Speir Fr WR 3 Deltron Hopkins  So WR 6 Shaedon Meadors Jr QB 7 Jacob Huesman Fr RB 8 Josh Boyd So QB 10 J.P. Caruso So QB 11 Taylor Lamb Jr QB 12 Zac Thomas Fr WR 13 Dante Jones Jr RB 14 Marcus Cox Sr WR 15 Mock Adams Fr WR 16 Jaquil Capel Sr QB 16 Jake Easter Fr QB 17 Curtis Fitch So WR 18 Brad Absher So RB 19 Darrynton Evans Fr RB 21 Terrence Upshaw Jr RB 25 Jalin Moore So RB 27 Marcus Williams Jr. Fr TE 30 George Vinson Jr TE 46 Bill Cecil Jr OL 50 Beau Nunn Jr OL 52 Tobias Edge-Campbell So OL 55 Matt Williams Fr OL 56 Nate Haskins Fr OL 58 Ryan Neuzil Fr OL 60 Logan Wright Fr OL 61 Aidan Nesvisky Fr OL 63 Ivan Reyes Fr OL 64 Jake Appling Fr OL 66 Jamie Collmar Sr OL 67 Weston Gillespie Fr OL 70 Colby Gossett Jr OL 73 Cole Garrison Fr OL 74 Victor Johnson Fr OL 75 Parker Collins Sr OL 76 Madison Malone So OL 78 Chandler Greer So OL 79 Will Hardin Fr TE 80 Hunter Nunn Jr WR 81 Jalen Virgil Fr WR 82 Zy Letman Jr WR 83 Mykel Golden Sr WR 84 Crisjohn Roscoe Fr TE 85 Barrett Burns Sr TE 86 Levi Duffield Jr TE 87 Collin Reed Fr WR 88 T.J. Watkins Fr TE 89 Mitchell McClurg Fr	Defense Pos. # Name Class DB 3 Alex Gray  Sr DB 4 Mondo Williams Sr LB 6 Kennan Gilchrist Sr DB 7 Josh Thomas So DB 9 Austin Exford So DB 10 A. J. Howard Jr DB 11 Jeremy Level Fr DB 12 Brandon Pinckney Jr DB 17 Tae Hayes So DB 18 Shemar Jean-Charles Fr LB 20 Cameron Pack Fr DB 20 A'Darius Purifoy Fr DB 22 Clifton Duck Fr LB 24 Akeem Davis-Gaither Fr DB 26 K.J. Chamberlain Fr LB 28 Devan Stringer Jr DB 29 Devonte Harrison Fr LB 31 Rashaad Townes Jr LB 33 Edward Davis Fr DB 34 Desmond Franklin Fr LB 35 Toronto Thomas Sr DB 36 Kaiden Smith Fr LB 37 Teh'ron Fuller So LB 39 Miller Kirkpatrick Fr DL 40 Nate Norwood Sr DL 42 Tee Sims Sr LB 44 Anthony Flory So LB 45 Eric Boggs Jr DL 47 Okon Godwin So LB 48 Dezmin Reed Sr DL 51 Caleb Fuller Jr LB 53 Noel Cook Fr DL 54 Darian Small Sr LB 59 Jordan Fehr Fr DL 68 Brody Barrett Fr DL 69 Tommy Dawkins Fr DL 72 Tyson Fernandez Sr LB 88 John Law Sr DL 90 Chris Willis Fr DL 91 Caleb Spurlin Fr DL 92 MyQuon Stout So DL 95 Devin Papenheim Fr DL 96 Elijah Diarrassouba Fr DL 97 Matthew McClurg Fr DL 99 Baer Hunter Fr	Special teams Pos. # Name Class K 41 Michael Rubino Fr K 57 Chandler Staton Fr K/P 91 Bentlee Critcher Sr LS 93 Elias McMurray So K 94 Rylee Critcher Fr	Head coach Scott Satterfield Coordinators/assistant coaches Nate Woody (Defensive Coordinator/Outside Linebackers) Shawn Clark (Co-Offensive Coordinator (Run Game)/Offensive Lineman) Frank Ponce (Co-Offensive Coordinator (Pass Game)/Quarterbacks) Bryan Brown (Cornerbacks) Stu Holt (Running Backs/Special Teams) Mark Ivey (Defensive Line) Dale Jones (Inside Linebackers) Scot Sloan (Secondary/Recruiting Coordinator) Justin Watts (Wide Receivers) Mike Sirignano (Strength & Conditioning) Alex Farah (Graduate Assistant - Offense) Legend (C) Team captain (S) Suspended (I) Ineligible Injured Redshirt Roster Last update: January 12, 2017

References

1. "Sun Belt Announces 2016 Football Schedule" (Press release). Appalachian State University Department of Athletics. March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
2. "2016 Appalachian State Mountaineers Football Schedule". FB Schedules. Retrieved March 12, 2016.