The 2016 season's largest margin: UMass 34, Wagner 10. A 24-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2016 — The Correction
2016 is a losing-side chapter for UMass. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Andrew FordQB2,665 passing yards
- Ross ComisQB370 passing yards
- Marquis YoungRB898 rushing yards
- Adam BrenemanTE808 receiving yards
- Andy IsabellaWR801 receiving yards
- Jalen WilliamsWR520 receiving yards
- Steve CasaliLB105 tackles
- Jesse MonteiroDB73 tackles
- Khary Bailey-SmithS69 tackles
- Da'Sean DowneyDL6 sacks
- Peter AngehDL3 sacks
- Colbert CalhounLB3 sacks
Season leaders, 2016.
The season's deepest loss: UMass 9, BYU 51. A 42-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Rise as one."
2016 sits in UMass's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.