The 2016 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team represented
Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a public research university based in Flagstaff, Arizona. It was founded in 1899 as the final public university established in the Arizona Territory, 13 years before Arizona was admitted as the 48th state.
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in the
2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season
The 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States, was organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level. The NCAA Division ...
. They were led by 19th-year head coach
Jerome Souers
Jerome Souers (born May 20, 1958) is an American football coach. He is currently the head coach at Montana State University–Northern. He was formerly the head football coach at Northern Arizona University, a position he held from 1998 until 2 ...
and played their home games at the
Walkup Skydome
The J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome is an indoor multipurpose stadium in the southwestern United States, located on the campus of Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, Arizona. It is primarily used as the home of the NAU Lumberjacks foot ...
. They were a member of the
Big Sky Conference
The Big Sky Conference (BSC) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I with football competing in the Football Championship Subdivision. Member institutions are located in the western United States in the eigh ...
. They finished the season 5–6, 4–4 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for sixth place.
Schedule
Official Schedule
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Game summaries
At Arizona State
At Western Illinois
New Mexico Highlands
Eastern Washington
At Northern Colorado
At Montana State
Idaho State
Montana
At Weber State
At North Dakota
Southern Utah
Ranking movements
References
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Northern Arizona
Northern Arizona is an unofficial, colloquially-defined region of the U.S. state of Arizona. Generally consisting of Apache, Coconino, Mohave, Navajo, and Gila counties, the region is geographically dominated by the Colorado Plateau, the sout ...
Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football seasons
Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football
The NAU Lumberjacks football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Northern Arizona University located in Flagstaff, Arizona. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and is a member ...