2016 Princeton Tigers football team

The 2016 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Bob Surace and played their home games at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. Princeton is a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 8–2 overall and 6–1 in Ivy League play to tie with Penn for the Ivy League title, their first since 2013. Princeton averaged 8,990 fans per game.

2016 Princeton Tigers football
Ivy League co-champion
Conference	Ivy League
Record	8–2 (6–1 Ivy)
Head coach	Bob Surace (7th season)
Offensive coordinator	James Perry (7th season)
Co-defensive coordinator	Steve Verbit
Co-defensive coordinator	Jim Salgado
Home stadium	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium

2016 Ivy League football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
Princeton +		6	–	1					8	–	2
Penn +		6	–	1					7	–	3
Harvard		5	–	2					7	–	3
Brown		3	–	4					4	–	6
Yale		3	–	4					3	–	7
Cornell		2	–	5					4	–	6
Columbia		2	–	5					3	–	7
Dartmouth		1	–	6					4	–	6
+ – Conference co-champions

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 17	5:00 p.m.	Lafayette*	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ	ESPN3	W 35–31	13,420
September 24	12:30 p.m.	at Lehigh*	Goodman Stadium Bethlehem, PA	CI	L 28–42	5,493
October 1	12:00 p.m.	at Columbia	Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium New York, NY	FCS	W 48–13	3,638
October 8	1:00 p.m.	at Georgetown*	Cooper Field Washington, DC	CI	W 31–17	2,263
October 15	3:00 p.m.	Brown	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ	ILDN	W 31–7	5,881
October 22	1:00 p.m.	Harvard	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	ILDN	L 20–23 OT	9,963
October 29	12:30 p.m.	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	OWSPN	W 56–7	4,879
November 5	12:00 p.m.	Penn	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	ASN	W 28–0	7,367
November 12	12:30 p.m.	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT (rivalry)	ILDN	W 31–3	15,321
November 19	1:30 p.m.	Dartmouth	Powers Field at Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ	OWSPN	W 38–21	8,320
*Non-conference game All times are in Eastern time

Game summaries

Lafayette

See also: 2016 Lafayette Leopards football team

	1	2	3	4	Total
Leopards	14	7	3	7	31
Tigers	7	14	14	0	35

At Lehigh

See also: 2016 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	7	7	0	14	28
Mountain Hawks	7	14	14	7	42

At Columbia

See also: 2016 Columbia Lions football team

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	6	28	14	0	48
Lions	6	0	0	7	13

At Georgetown

See also: 2016 Georgetown Hoyas football team

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	14	7	10	0	31
Hoyas	7	7	3	0	17

Brown

See also: 2016 Brown Bears football team

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bears	0	0	0	7	7
Tigers	14	14	3	0	31

Harvard

See also: 2016 Harvard Crimson football team

	1	2	3	4	OT	Total
Crimson	7	7	0	3	6	23
Tigers	0	0	10	7	3	20

At Cornell

See also: 2016 Cornell Big Red football team

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	14	21	14	7	56
Big Red	0	0	7	0	7

Penn

See also: 2016 Penn Quakers football team

	1	2	3	4	Total
Quakers	0	0	0	0	0
Tigers	6	7	8	7	28

At Yale

See also: 2016 Yale Bulldogs football team

	1	2	3	4	Total
Tigers	7	10	0	14	31
Bulldogs	3	0	0	0	3

Dartmouth

See also: 2016 Dartmouth Big Green football team

	1	2	3	4	Total
Big Green	7	7	0	7	21
Tigers	7	3	7	21	38