2016 Northwestern Wildcats football team


The 2016 Northwestern Wildcats football team represented Northwestern University during the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by Pat Fitzgerald who is in his 11th season as the team's head coach. The Wildcats home games were played at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois. They were members of the West Division of the Big Ten Conference.

Schedule

Northwestern announced its 2016 football schedule on July 11, 2013. The 2016 schedule consists of 7 home and 5 away games in the regular season. The Wildcats will host Big Ten foes Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, and Wisconsin, and will travel to Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, and Purdue.
The team will host all three non–conference games which are against the Duke Blue Devils from the Atlantic Coast Conference, Illinois State Redbirds from the Missouri Valley Conference, and the Western Michigan Broncos from the Mid-American Conference.

Game summaries

Western Michigan

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–02013NW, 38–17

Illinois State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–02010NW, 37–3

Duke

Overall recordLast meetingResult
9–82015NW, 19–10

Nebraska

Overall recordLast meetingResult
3–62015NW, 30–28

at Iowa

Overall recordLast meetingResult
24–50–32015IOWA, 40–10

at Michigan State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
17–372013MSU, 30–6

Indiana

Overall recordLast meetingResult
46–34–12012NW, 44–29

at Ohio State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
14–60–12013OSU, 40–30

Wisconsin

Overall recordLast meetingResult
53–57–52015NW, 13–7

at Purdue

Overall recordLast meetingResult
29–50–12015NW, 21–14

at Minnesota

Overall recordLast meetingResult
34–52–52015NW, 27–0

Illinois

Overall recordLast meetingResult
49–55–52015NW, 24–14

Pittsburgh–Pinstripe Bowl

Overall recordLast meetingResult
3–31973PITT, 21–14

Roster

Awards and honors