The 2016 season's largest margin: South Alabama 31, Presbyterian 7. A 24-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2016 — The Correction
2016 is a losing-side chapter for South Alabama. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Dallas DavisQB2,735 passing yards
- Cole GarvinQB463 passing yards
- Xavier JohnsonRB831 rushing yards
- Dami AyoolaRB377 rushing yards
- Tyreis ThomasRB300 rushing yards
- Josh MageeWR822 receiving yards
- Gerald EverettTE717 receiving yards
- Kevin KutcheraWR532 receiving yards
- Darrell SongyLB100 tackles
- Roman BuchananLB86 tackles
- Jeremy ReavesS82 tackles
- Randy AllenDE12 sacks
- Finesse MiddletonDE4.5 sacks
- Chason MilnerDE2 sacks
Season leaders, 2016.
The season's deepest loss: South Alabama 21, Air Force 45. A 24-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: South Alabama fell to Air Force 21-45 in the postseason.
"Go Jags"
2016 sits in South Alabama'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.