Tulane announced its 2016 football schedule on February 9, 2016. The 2016 schedule consists of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Green Wave will host AAC foes Memphis , Navy , SMU , and Temple , and will travel to UCF , UConn , Houston , and Tulsa .[ 1]
The team will play four non–conference games, two of which are home games against Louisiana–Lafayette from the Sun Belt Conference and Southern from the Southwestern Athletic Conference , and two road game against UMass and travel to Wake Forest from the Atlantic Coast Conference .
Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance September 1 6:00 pm at Wake Forest * ESPN3 L 3–724,398 September 10 7:00 pm Southern * ESPN3 W 66–2127,179 September 17 6:00 pm Navy Yulman Stadium New Orleans, LA ASN L 14–2121,503 September 24 7:00 pm Louisiana–Lafayette * Yulman Stadium New Orleans, LA ESPN3 W 41–39 4OT 24,253 October 1 2:30 pm at UMass * ASN W 31–2414,892 7:00 pm Memphis Yulman Stadium New Orleans, LA ESPNU L 14–2421,098 October 22 2:45 pm at Tulsa ESPNU L 27–5022,349 October 29 3:00 pm SMU Yulman Stadium New Orleans, LA ESPNews L 31–3525,780 November 5[a] 5:00 pm at UCF ESPN3 L 6–3731,571 November 12 2:30 pm at Houston CBSSN L 18–3036,552 November 19 2:30 pm Temple Yulman Stadium New Orleans, LA ASN L 0–3116,497 November 26 3:00 pm at UConn ESPNews W 38–1320,764 *Non-conference game All times are in Central time
^[a] Hurricane Matthew . The game was rescheduled for the following month on November 5, 2016, with the kickoff time to be announced.[ 2] Schedule Source: [ 3]
Week 1: Tulane Green Wave at Wake Forest Demon Deacons – Game Summary[ 4]
Quarter
1
2
3 4 Total
Tulane
3
0
0 0 3
Wake Forest 0
7
0 0 7
at BB&T Field • Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Date : September 1, 2016Game time : 7:00 p.m. EDT Game attendance : 24,398TV : ESPN3
Week 2: Southern Jaguars at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary[ 5]
Quarter
1
2
3 4 Total
Southern
7
0
14 0 21
Tulane 28
21
7 10 66
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans , Louisiana
Date : September 10, 2016Game time : 7:00 p.m. CDT Game attendance : 27,179TV : ESPN3
Week 3: Navy Midshipmen at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary
Quarter
1
2
3 4 Total
Navy 0
7
6 8 21
Tulane
0
7
7 0 14
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
Date : September 17, 2016Game time : 6:00 p.m. CDT Game attendance : 21,503TV : ASN
Week 4: Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary
Quarter
1
2
3 4 OT 2OT 3OT 4OT Total
UL-Lafayette
3
3
3 7 7 7 3 6 39
Tulane 0
6
10 0 7 7 3 8 41
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
Date : September 24, 2016Game time : 7:00 p.m. CDT Game attendance : 24,253TV : ESPN3
Week 7: Memphis Tigers at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary
Quarter
1
2
3 4 Total
Memphis 3
10
3 8 24
Tulane
0
7
0 7 14
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
Date : October 14, 2016Game time : 7:00 p.m. CDT TV : ESPNU
Week 8: Tulane Green Wave at Tulsa Golden Hurricane – Game Summary
Quarter
1
2
3 4 Total
Tulane
7
0
13 7 27
Tulsa 14
17
9 10 50
at Chapman Stadium • Tulsa, Oklahoma
Date : October 22, 2016Game time : 2:45 p.m. CDT Game attendance : 22,349TV : ESPNU
Week 9 (homecoming): SMU Mustangs at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary
Quarter
1
2
3 4 Total
SMU 14
7
0 14 35
Tulane
7
3
14 7 31
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
Date : October 29, 2016Game time : 3:00 p.m. CDT Game attendance : 25,780TV : ESPNews
The game, originally scheduled for a 7:30 pm kickoff on October 6 to be televised on ESPNU, was moved to November 5 due to Hurricane Matthew . The game was moved to November 5 because both teams, coincidentally, had scheduled bye weeks for that week.[ 2]
Week 11: Tulane Green Wave at Houston Cougars – Game Summary
Quarter
1
2
3 4 Total
Tulane
7
3
0 8 18
Houston 14
14
0 2 30
at TDECU Stadium • Houston , Texas
Date : November 12, 2016Game time : 2:30 p.m. CST Game attendance : 36,552TV : CBSSN
Week 12: Temple Owls at Tulane Green Wave – Game Summary
Quarter
1
2
3 4 Total
Temple 7
3
14 7 31
Tulane
0
0
0 0 0
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans, Louisiana
Date : November 19, 2016Game time : 2:30pm CST Game attendance : 16,497TV : ESPN3
^ "2016 Tulane Football Dates, Selected Television Games Announced" (Press release). Tulane University Department of Athletics. February 9, 2016. Archived from the original on March 13, 2016. Retrieved February 17, 2016 .^ a b Green, Shannon. "Hurricane Matthew forces UCF to postpone Tulane game" . OrlandoSentinel.com . Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved October 6, 2016 . ^ "2016 Tulane Green Wave Football Schedule" . FB Schedules. Retrieved February 17, 2016 .^ "Tulane at Wake Forest" . Yahoo! Sports . Retrieved September 3, 2016 .^ "Southern at Tulane" . Yahoo! Sports . Retrieved September 11, 2016 .^ "Tulane at UMass" . Yahoo! Sports . Retrieved October 1, 2016 .
