2016 Olivet Comets football team

American college football season May 2017 February 2026 August 2023 2016 Olivet Comets football Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association MIAA 9–2 6–0 Dan Pifer 5th Dan Musielewicz 5th Warren Maloney 4th Justin Madar Braden Black Thomas Gary-Homes Robert Cuba Cutler Athletic Complex MIAA champion 2016 NCAA Division III First Round L 12–37 at 2016 John Carroll Blue Streaks John Carroll The 2016 Olivet Comets football team, sometimes known as Team 116 in reference to the 116th season of the Olivet Comets football program, was an American football team that represented Olivet College as a member of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) during the 2016 NCAA Division III football season. Led by Dan Pifer in his fifth and final season as head coach, the Comets compiled an overall record of 9–2 with a mark of 6–0 in conference play, winning the MIAA title. 2016 MIAA standings https://www.d3football.com/conf/MIAA/2016/standings D3sports.com January 3, 2021 MIAA Record Book 2020–21 https://www.miaa.org/history/RecordBook/miaa_recordbook_3_football_2019_updated.pdf Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association 7 January 3, 2021 Olivet advanced to the NCAA Division III football championship playoffs, where the Comets lost in the first round to 2016 John Carroll Blue Streaks John Carroll. The team won the MIAA championship outright for the first time since 1974 and at least a share of the conference title for the second consecutive year, the first time Olivet won back-to-back titles since 1913 and 1914. The title was the 12th in program history, and the nine wins tied the single-season record set in 2015. In December 2016, Pifer left Olivet to become thee head football coach at Walsh University. In January 2017, offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator Dan Musielewicz was hired as the new head coach for the Comets. Schedule 2016 NCAA Division III D3football.com Eastern September 3 1:00 p.m. l y y 2016 St. John Fisher Cardinals St. John Fisher Growney Stadium Rochester, NY 10–52 2,566 September 12 1:00 p.m. w y 2016 Elmhurst BlueJays Emhurst Cutler Athletic Complex Olivet, MI Comet Sports Network 27–13 1,005 September 17 2:00 p.m. w y y 2016 Wisconsin Lutheran Warriors Wisconsin Lutheran Raabe Stadium Milwaukee, WI 30–7 538 October 1 6:00 p.m. w y Hope Ray & Sue Smith Stadium Holland, MI 15–13 1,874 October 8 2:00 p.m. w y 2016 Kalamazoo Hornets Kalamazoo Cutler Athletic Complex Olivet, MI Comet Sports Network 35–6 6,175 October 17 1:00 p.m. w y 2016 Albion Britons Albion Sprankle–Sprandel Stadium Albion, MI 31–14 3,522 October 22 1:00 p.m. w y 2016 Benedictine Eagles Benedictine (IL) Cutler Athletic Complex Olivet, MI Comet Sports Network 54–48 OT 1,085 October 29 1:00 p.m. w 2016 Alma Scots Alma Cutler Athletic Complex Olivet, MI Comet Sports Network 36–30 2,005 November 5 1:00 p.m. w y 2016 Adrian Bulldogs Adrian Docking Stadium Adrian, MI 44–37 2,775 November 12 1:00 p.m. w 2016 Trine Thunder Trine Cutler Athletic Complex Olivet, MI Comet Sports Network 44–27 4,025 November 19 12:05 p.m. l y y 2016 John Carroll Blue Streaks John Carroll 6 Don Shula Stadium University Heights, OH 2016 NCAA Division III First Round 12–37 1,926 2016 Olivet College Football Results https://olivetcomets.com/sports/fball/2016-17/schedule University of Olivet December 22, 2016 Broadcasting Radio broadcasting for the Comets was aired by 89.1 The One WOCR FM with play-by-play provided by sports director Matt Scher and color analysis by Zach Sturgill. The games could be heard on the radio and on wocrfm.com. A first for Olivet football, home games were broadcast on the Comet Sports Network produced by Visual Premier Productions, LLC. with audio simulcasted from WOCR's broadcast. The Comet Sports Network broadcasts were streamed through YouTube. References Olivet Category:Olivet Comets football seasons Category:Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association football champion seasons Olivet Comets football