GAME 7 | BYU vs. Mississippi State | Friday, Oct. 14 | 8:15 p.m. MDT | Provo, UT | LaVell Edwards Stadium | ESPN | Cougar IMG Sports Network | www.BYUCougars.com Brett Pyne, BYU Athletic CommunicationsBYU | O: (801) 422-4912 | C: (801)FOOTBALL 367-1631 | [email protected] | @BYUCougars #BYUvsMSU #BYUFootball #GoCougs BYU 2016 SCHEDULE GAME INFORMATION Date Day Opponent Time/Result TV Kickoff ................. 8:15 p.m. MDT 9/3 Sat. vs. Arizona W 18-16 FS1 TV ........................... ESPN 9/10 Sat. at Utah L 20-19 FOX Tom Hart (play-by-play), Andre Ware (analyst), 9/17 Sat. UCLA L 17-14 ESPN2 Cole Cubelic (sideline) 9/24 Sat. vs. West Virginia L 35-32 ESPN2 Radio ........ Cougar IMG Sports Network 9/30 Fri. Toledo W 55-53 ESPN2 (KSL 1160 AM, 102.7 FM, KSL.com, BYU- 10/8 Sat. at Michigan State W 31-14 ABC/ESPN2 cougars.com, BYU Radio Sirius XM 143) 10/14 Fri. Mississippi State* 8:15 p.m. ESPN Greg Wrubell (play-by-play), Marc Lyons (analyst), Nate Meikle (sideline) 10/20 Thur. at Boise State 8:15 p.m. ESPN TV pregame show ... BYUtv, 7:00 p.m. MDT 11/5 Sat. at Cincinnati TBA TBA MISSISSIPPI STATE (2-3, 0-1 SEC) BYU (3-3) 11/12 Sat. Southern Utah 1:00 p.m. BYUtv BULLDOGS SERIES INFORMATION COUGARS 11/19 Sat. UMass TBA TBA Series ��������������������������������������������������� 1-1 Head Coach .......... Dan Mullen Head Coach ......... Kalani Sitake 11/26 Sat. Utah State TBA TBA In Starkville . 1-0 Alma Mater .......... Ursinus, 1994 Alma Mater . BYU, 2000 All times local to site *Homecoming game In Provo ������������������������������������������������� 0-1 Career FBS Record. .57-38 Neutral . 0-0 Career Record �������������������������������3-3 HOMECOMING WEEK Record at MSU . same Last meeting . BYU won 41-38, Dec. 1, 2001 Record at BYU .............. same It’s Homecoming week at BYU. The week is packed full of festivities Mullen vs. BYU ................ 0-0 Sitake vs. MSU ................ 0-0 on campus, including Friday night’s game against the Bulldogs. The in Starkville Cougars will be wearing their royal blue uniforms for Homecoming. BYU STORYLINES Homecoming schedule Tues. 11:05 a.m. Opening Ceremonies (Marriott Center) • SERIES HISTORY. BYU and Mississippi State are meeting for the third time in the history of the two programs. The 12:00 p.m. Free tacos (Brigham Square until 1 p.m.) teams have split a previous home-and-home series, with the road team winning each contest. BYU defeated the 12:30 p.m. Founders Day Luncheon Bulldogs 41-38 in the last matchup in 2001 on a game-winning field goal from Matt Payne. Current Cougar running 6:00 p.m. Hike and Light the Y (Meet at J. Reuben Clark Law backs coach Reno Mahe had 10 receptions, 189 yards and two touchdowns in the game. School to base of Y Mountain - lighting at 7:45 p.m.) • SEC. BYU is facing an opponent from the SEC, marking the fifth different conference BYU has faced in 2016. The Wed. 12:00 p.m. BYUSA Noonday Activities (Brigham Square) team has already played games against the Pac-12, Big 12, MAC and Big Ten. With the game against the Bulldogs, 4:00 p.m. True Blue Foam (Fields by Helaman Halls) the Cougars will have faced at least one team from four of the five Power 5 conferences. BYU has played 10 games Thurs. 11:00 a.m. Alumni Achievement Award Lectures (Hinckley Center) against current SEC opponents and is 5-5 in those games. Last year, BYU fell to Missouri 20-16 in Kansas City. 12:00 p.m. BYUSA Noonday Activities (Brigham Square) • MULLEN VS. BYU. Mullen has never faced BYU as a head coach but was the quarterbacks coach at Utah in 2003 12:30 p.m. Alumni Achievement Awards Luncheon (Hinckley Center) and 2004. BYU fell in both games to the Utes when Mullen was on staff. Mullen’s current quarterbacks coach is 9:00 p.m. Spirit Skate Night (Classic Fun Center, Orem) Brian Johnson, who was a backup QB at Utah in 2004 under Mullen, and went on to start for Utah from ‘05-08. Fri. TBA Stadium Tailgate Party (West lot) TBA Reunions (Various locations all day) • SAGARIN RANKINGS. USA Today’s Jeff Sagarin ranks BYU’s 2016 schedule the 9th toughest to date. The eight 12:00 p.m. BYUSA Noonday Activities (Brigham Square) teams ahead of BYU and their respective records are (1) Stanford 3-2, (2) Florida State 4-2, (3) Rutgers 2-4, (4) 12:30 p.m. University Alumni Awards Luncheon (Hinckley Center) Oklahoma 4-2, (5) USC 3-3, (6) Tennessee 5-1, (7) Ole Miss 3-2 and (8) Oregon 2-4. 8:15 p.m. FB vs Mississippi State (LaVell Edwards Stadium) Sat. 8:30 a.m. Pancake Breakfast (Bottom of Maeser stairs, BYU PROJECTED DEPTH CHART Creamery on 9th, Cougar Dental - SE Corner of OFFENSE DEFENSE Campus, Botany Pond) QB 7 Taysom Hill 6-2 235 Sr. E -or- 49 Moses Kaumatule 6-2 280 So. 8:45 a.m. Kids Races (Robison Track and Field Complex) 12 Tanner Mangum 6-3 215 So. 90 Corbin Kaufusi 6-9 270 So. 9:00 a.m. Parade VIP Breakfast (Marriott Center NW Concourse) 9:45 a.m. Cougar Run (Robison Track and Field Complex) RB 21 Jamaal Williams 6-2 220 Sr. N 54 Merrill Taliauli 6-2 305 So. 22 Squally Canada 5-11 205 So. 91 Travis Tuiloma 6-2 301 Sr. 10:00 a.m. Homecoming Parade 94 Kesni Tausinga 6-1 305 Jr. 12:00 p.m. Alumni Board Garden BBQ (Hinckley Center) FB 24 Algernon Brown 6-1 250 Sr. 2:00 p.m. BYU Spectacular (Marriott Center) 35 Brayden El-Bakri 6-0 235 So. T 62 Logan Taele 6-2 299 Sr. 92 Handsome Tanielu 6-2 318 Jr. 7:30 p.m. BYU Spectacular (Marriott Center) WR 5 Nick Kurtz 6-6 215 Sr. -or- 50 Tevita Mo’Unga 6-2 314 So. 8:30 p.m. Homecoming Dances (Various locations) -or- 3 Colby Pearson 6-0 203 Sr. -or- 87 Mitchell Juergens 5-10 184 Sr. OE 21 Harvey Langi 6-3 252 Sr. -or- 31 Sae Tautu 6-4 245 Sr. TEAM COMPARISON WR 1 Moroni Laulu-Pututau 6-4 220 So. -or- 84 Jonah Trinnaman 6-0 190 Jr. FLB 4 Fred Warner 6-4 230 Jr. MSU CATEGORY BYU -or- 88 Aleva Hifo 5-10 180 Fr. 51 Morgan Unga 6-4 215 So. 25.6 Scoring Offense 28.2 TE 89 Tanner Balderree 6-3 250 So. MLB 38 Butch Pau’u 6-0 223 So. 26.2 Scoring Defense 25.8 -or- 96 Hunter Marshall 6-3 242 So. -or- 41 Adam Pulsipher 6-1 227 So. 42 Austin Heder 6-3 240 Sr. 21.4 First Downs 23.0 LT 79 Andrew Eide 6-5 301 Sr. 65 JJ Nwigwe 6-5 280 So. BLB 13 Francis Bernard 6-1 240 So. 196.2 Rushing Off. 210.0 30 Kavika Fonua 6-0 220 So. LG 76 Keyan Norman 6-3 305 Jr. 134.2 Rushing Def. 125.8 70 Jacob Jimenez 6-5 292 So. LC 11 Troy Warner 6-1 195 Fr. -or- 5 Dayan Lake 5-11 200 Fr. 208.6 Passing Off. 210.7 C 56 Tejan Koroma 6-0 295 Jr. -or- 32 Chris Wilcox 6-2 175 Fr. 237.2 Passing Def. 278.7 55 Quin Ficklin 6-3 280 Jr. FS 12 Kai Nacua 6-2 215 Sr. 404.8 Total Offense 420.7 RG 54 Parker Dawe 6-3 307 Sr. -or- 2 Matt Hadley 6-0 205 Jr. -or- 78 Tuni Kanuch 6-3 330 Jr. 36 Zayne Anderson 6-2 200 So 371.4 Total Defense 404.5 RT 59 Thomas Shoaf 6-5 280 Fr. SS 7 Micah Hannemann 6-0 205 Jr. 18.9 Kickoff Return 20.0 -or- 71 Austin Hoyt 6-8 300 So. -or- 33 Eric Takenaka 5-10 210 Sr. 25 Tanner Jacobson 5-10 185 So. 3.3 Punt Return 9.0 SPECIAL TEAMS 61.2 Penalties (YPG) 58.2 RC 15 Michael Davis 6-2 196 Sr. KO 16 Corey Edwards 6-0 206 So. 27 Austin McChesney 6-1 190 Fr. 39.1 Net Punting 38.7 -or- 83 Andrew Mikkelsen 6-0 200 So. 3 Isaiah Armstrong 6-2 193 So. 27:54 Time of Poss. 31:05 PK 26 Rhett Almond 6-4 198 So. SPECIAL TEAMS 83 Andrew Mikkelsen 6-0 200 So. 30.9 3rd Down % 48.3 PR 23 Garrett Juergens 5-10 187 Sr. P 31 Jonny Linehan 6-0 203 Sr. 87 Mitchell Juergens 5-10 184 Sr. 63.6 4th Down % 57.1 26 Rhett Almond 6-4 198 So. -or- 7 Micah Hannemann 6-0 205 Jr. 11-80 Sacks-Yards 11-66 H 87 Mitchell Juergens 5-10 184 Sr. 11-74 Sacks Allowed 12-74 31 Jonny Linehan 6-0 203 Sr. KR 88 Aleva Hifo 5-10 180 Fr. 2 Matt Hadley 6-0 205 Jr. 76.0 Blue Zone % 95.8 DS 64 Matt Foley 6-1 217 So. 84 Jonah Trinnaman 6-0 190 Jr. 36 Mitch Harris 6-4 216 Fr. 23 Garrett Juergens 5-10 187 Sr. 78.9 Opp. Blue Zone % 83.3 2016 BYU FOOTBALL MEDIA INFORMATION-2 FOOTBALL CONTACTS MEDIA AVAILABILITY AND POLICY Football Media Relations Director ..........Brett Pyne WEEKLY GAME NOTES Thank you for your coverage of BYU football for the 2016 season.