2016 Eastern Washington Eagles football team

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Ranking
STATS	No. 4
FCS Coaches	No. 4

2016 Big Sky Conference football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 4 Eastern Washington +^	8	–	0	12	–	2
No. 12 North Dakota +^	8	–	0	9	–	3
No. 25 Weber State ^	6	–	2	7	–	5
No. 24 Cal Poly ^	5	–	3	7	–	5
Southern Utah	5	–	3	6	–	5
Northern Colorado	4	–	4	6	–	5
Northern Arizona	4	–	4	5	–	6
Montana	3	–	5	6	–	5
Montana State	2	–	6	4	–	7
Portland State	2	–	6	3	–	8
UC Davis	2	–	6	3	–	8
Sacramento State	2	–	6	2	–	9
Idaho State	1	–	7	2	–	9

$ – Conference champion ^ – FCS playoff participant Rankings from STATS Poll

The 2016 Eastern Washington Eagles football team represented Eastern Washington University in the 2016 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by head coach Beau Baldwin, who was in his ninth season with Eastern Washington. The Eagles played their home games at Roos Field in Cheney, Washington and were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 12–2, 8–0 in Big Sky play to share the conference championship with North Dakota. They received the automatic bid into the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Central Arkansas and Richmond in the second round and quarterfinals, before losing to Youngstown State in the semifinals.

On January 16, 2017, head coach Beau Baldwin resigned to become the offensive coordinator at California.^[1] He finished at Eastern Washington with a nine year record of 85–32.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 3	5:00 PM	at Washington State*	No. 14	Martin Stadium Pullman, WA	P12N	W 45–42	32,952
September 10	12:30 PM	at No. 1 North Dakota State*	No. 8	Fargodome Fargo, ND	SWX	L 44–50 ^OT	18,906
September 17	4:05 PM	No. 10 Northern Iowa*	No. 8	Roos Field Cheney, WA	SWX	W 34–30	9,111
September 24	4:05 PM	at Northern Arizona	No. 4	Walkup Skydome Flagstaff, AZ	SWX	W 50–35	10,179
October 1	1:05 PM	UC Davis	No. 4	Roos Field Cheney, WA	RTNW	W 63–30	10,741
October 8	1:05 PM	Northern Colorado	No. 4	Roos Field Cheney, WA	SWX	W 49–31	10,924
October 22	11:05 AM	at Montana State	No. 3	Bobcat Stadium Bozeman, MT	RTNW	W 41–17	18,087
October 29	12:35 PM	No. 16 Montana	No. 3	Roos Field Cheney, WA (EWU–UM Governors Cup)	RTNW	W 35–16	10,931
November 5	6:05 PM	at No. 14 Cal Poly	No. 3	Alex G. Spanos Stadium San Luis Obispo, CA	WBS	W 42–21	9,722
November 12	3:35 PM	Idaho State	No. 3	Roos Field Cheney, WA	SWX	W 48–17	9,302
November 18	7:35 PM	at Portland State	No. 3	Providence Park Portland, OR (The Dam Cup)	RTNW	W 35–28	5,669
December 3	1:00 PM	No. 14 Central Arkansas*	No. 3	Roos Field Cheney, WA (FCS Playoffs Second Round)	ESPN3	W 31–14	6,085
December 10	1:00 PM	No. 12 Richmond*	No. 3	Roos Field Cheney, WA (FCS Playoffs Quarterfinals)	ESPN3	W 38–0	5,150
December 17	3:30 PM	No. 13 Youngstown State*	No. 3	Roos Field Cheney, WA (FCS Playoffs Semifinals)	ESPNU	L 38–40	5,233
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from STATS FCS Poll released prior to game Poll released prior to the game All times are in Pacific time

Source: Schedule

Game summaries

at Washington State

	1	2	3	4	Total
#14 Eagles	7	17	14	7	45
Cougars	14	14	0	14	42

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
0–3	2012	WAZZU, 24–20

at North Dakota State

	1	2	3	4	OT	Total
#8 Eagles	0	14	10	20	0	44
#1 Bison	7	14	7	16	6	50

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
1–0	2010 FCS Playoffs	EWU, 38–31 ^OT

Northern Iowa

	1	2	3	4	Total
#10 Panthers	10	14	0	6	30
#8 Eagles	0	7	14	13	34

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
0–6	2015	UNI, 38–35

at Northern Arizona

	1	2	3	4	Total
#4 Eagles	12	10	14	14	50
Lumberjacks	7	14	7	7	35

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
19–12	2015	NAU, 52–30

UC Davis

	1	2	3	4	Total
Aggies	0	23	7	0	30
#4 Eagles	14	0	35	14	63

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
4–0	2014	EWU, 37–14

Northern Colorado

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bears	7	10	7	7	31
#4 Eagles	3	11	21	14	49

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
10–1	2015	EWU, 43–41

at Montana State

	1	2	3	4	Total
#3 Eagles	14	10	7	10	41
Bobcats	14	3	0	0	17

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
29–10	2015	EWU, 55–50

Montana

	1	2	3	4	Total
#16 Grizzlies	7	3	6	0	16
#3 Eagles	7	14	14	0	35

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
15–27–1	2015	MONT, 57–16

at Cal Poly

	1	2	3	4	Total
#3 Eagles	14	7	14	7	42
#14 Mustangs	7	7	7	0	21

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
6–2	2015	EWU, 42–41 ^OT

Idaho State

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bengals	3	7	7	0	17
#3 Eagles	7	13	14	14	48

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
27–9	2015	EWU, 45–28

at Portland State

	1	2	3	4	Total
#3 Eagles	7	0	14	14	35
Vikings	14	0	14	0	28

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
17–20–1	2015	PSU, 34–31

FCS Playoffs

Second Round–Central Arkansas

	1	2	3	4	Total
#14 Bears	0	14	0	0	14
#3 Eagles	0	21	3	7	31

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
First meeting

Quarterfinals–Richmond

	1	2	3	4	Total
#12 Spiders	0	0	0	0	0
#3 Eagles	7	14	10	7	38

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
First meeting

Semifinals–Youngstown State

	1	2	3	4	Total
#13 Penguins	7	10	3	20	40
#3 Eagles	10	14	7	7	38

Overall record	Last meeting	Result
0–1	1997 I-AA Playoffs	YSU, 25–14

Ranking movements

Ranking movements
**Legend:** ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
( ) = First-place votes
	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Final
STATS	14	8 (1)	8	4	4	4	4	3 (17)	3 (18)	3 (18)	3 (19)	3 (21)	3 (14)	4
Coaches	17	8	7	5	5	5	5	3 (1)	3 (1)	3 (1)	3 (1)	3 (1)	4 (1)	4
FCS Playoffs	Not released									3	2	2	Not released

References

^ http://www.oregonlive.com/pac-12/index.ssf/2017/01/cal_reportedly_targeting_beau_baldwin_of_eastern_w.html

[1] ttp://www.oregonlive.com/pac-12/index.ssf/2017/01/cal_reportedly_targeting_beau_baldwin_of_eastern_w.html

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v t e Eastern Washington Eagles football
Venues	Roos Field (1967–present) Joe Albi Stadium (alternate)
Bowls & rivalries	Montana: EWU–UM Governors Cup Portland State: The Dam Cup
Culture & lore	Swoop The Inferno "Go, Eagles, Go"
People	Head coaches Award winners Retired jerseys NFL draftees
Seasons	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910–1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917–1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
National championship seasons in bold

v t e Big Sky Conference football champions
College Division / Division II	Idaho State (1963) Montana State (1964) Weber State & Idaho (1965) Montana State (1966) Montana State (1967) Idaho, Montana State, & Weber State (1968) Montana (1969) Montana (1970) Idaho (1971) Montana State (1972) Boise State (1973) Boise State (1974) Boise State (1975) Montana State (1976) Boise State (1977)
I-AA/FCS	Northern Arizona (1978) Montana State (1979) Boise State (1980) Idaho State (1981) Montana, Idaho, & Montana State (1982) Nevada (1983) Montana State (1984) Idaho (1985) Nevada (1986) Idaho (1987) Idaho (1988) Idaho (1989) Nevada (1990) Nevada (1991) Idaho & Eastern Washington (1992) Montana (1993) Boise State (1994) Montana (1995) Montana (1996) Eastern Washington (1997) Montana (1998) Montana (1999) Montana (2000) Montana (2001) Montana, Montana State, & Idaho State (2002) Montana State, Montana, & Northern Arizona (2003) Montana & Eastern Washington (2004) Eastern Washington, Montana State, & Montana (2005) Montana (2006) Montana (2007) Weber State & Montana (2008) Montana (2009) Montana State & Eastern Washington (2010) Montana State & Montana (2011) Eastern Washington, Montana State, & Cal Poly (2012) Eastern Washington (2013) Eastern Washington (2014) Southern Utah (2015) Eastern Washington & North Dakota (2016) Southern Utah & Weber State (2017) Eastern Washington, UC Davis, & Weber State (2018) Sacramento State & Weber State (2019) Weber State (2020) Sacramento State (2021) Montana State & Sacramento State (2022) Montana (2023) Montana State (2024)
National championships in bold