2016 The Correction

2016 is a losing-side chapter for UMass. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.

Record 2-10
Final Result Losing season
AP Final post-bowls
SP+ -8.3 last-week
Era The Independent Wandering
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
L @ Florida 7-24 L vs Bost Col 7-26 W vs Flor Int 21-13 L vs Miss St 35-47 L vs Tulane 24-31 L @ Old Dom 16-36 L vs Loui Tec 28-56 L @ S Caro 28-34 W vs Wagner 34-10 L @ Troy 31-52 L @ BYU 9-51 L @ Hawai'i 40-46

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2016.

Defining Moments
The Statement

The 2016 season's largest margin: UMass 34, Wagner 10. A 24-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The Setback

The season's deepest loss: UMass 9, BYU 51. A 42-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Rise as one."
— UMass fanbase voice · 2016· synthesized
What It Meant

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.