The 2016 Georgia Southern Eagles football team represented

Georgia Southern University Georgia Southern University (GS or Georgia Southern) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Georgia. The flagship campus is in Statesboro, and other locations include the Armstrong Campus in Savannah and the Liberty Campus in Hine ...

in the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Eagles played their home games at

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Statesboro, Georgia Statesboro is the largest city and county seat of Bulloch County, Georgia, Bulloch County, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, United States, located in the southeastern part of the state. Statesboro is home to the flagship campus of Georgia Southern ...

, and competed in the

Sun Belt Conference The Sun Belt Conference (SBC) is a collegiate athletic conference that has been affiliated with the NCAA's Division I since 1976. Originally a non-football conference, the Sun Belt began sponsoring football in 2001. Its football teams participa ...

. They were led by first-year head coach

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. They finished the season 5–7, 4–4 in Sun Belt play to finish in sixth place.

Schedule

Georgia Southern announced its 2016 football schedule on March 3, 2016. The 2016 schedule consists of 5 home and 7 away games in the regular season. The Eagles will host Sun Belt foes

Appalachian State Appalachian State University (; Appalachian, App State, App, or ASU) is a public university in Boone, North Carolina. It was founded as a teachers college in 1899 by brothers B. B. and D. D. Dougherty and the latter's wife, Lillie Shull Dough ...

, Louisiana–Lafayette, Louisiana–Monroe, and

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, and will travel to

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, and

South Alabama South Alabama is the various parts of southern Alabama. Although it is not a strictly defined geographic region, it generally includes all Alabama counties south of the Black Belt. In that view, ''South Alabama'' consists of just the two counties ...

. Georgia Southern will skip out on two Sun Belt teams this season,

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and

Texas State Texas State University is a public research university in San Marcos, Texas. Since its establishment in 1899, the university has grown to the second largest university in the Greater Austin metropolitan area and the fifth largest university ...

. The team will play four non–conference games, one home game against

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from the

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(MEAC), and will travel to three road games against

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from

Atlantic Coast Conference The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC's fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Associa ...

(ACC), Ole Miss from the

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(SEC) and

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from the

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(MAC).

Game summaries

Savannah State

@ South Alabama

Louisiana–Monroe

@ Western Michigan

@ Arkansas State

@ Georgia Tech

@ New Mexico State

Appalachian State

@ Ole Miss

Louisiana–Lafayette

@ Georgia State

Troy

References

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Georgia Southern Eagles football seasons

Georgia Southern Eagles football The Georgia Southern Eagles football program represents Georgia Southern University in football as part of the Sun Belt Conference. The current head coach is Clay Helton. The Eagles have won six FCS (I-AA) national championships and have produce ...