2016 ACU Firestorm football team
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| Conference | Central States Football League |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | No. 22 |
| 2016 record | 7–3 (6–0 CSFL) |
| Head coach | Jeff Bowen (1st season) |
| Offensive coordinator | Dan Friedman & Steff Kruck (3rd & 3rd season) |
| Offensive scheme | Spread |
| Defensive coordinator | Joe Kersting & Grant O'Brien (1st & 2nd season) |
| Base defense | 4–2–5 |
| Home stadium | Shadow Mountain High School |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #22 Arizona Christian $ | 6 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #21 Langston | 5 | – | 1 | 7 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wayland Baptist | 4 | – | 2 | 7 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SW Assemblies of God | 2 | – | 4 | 4 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lyon | 2 | – | 4 | 3 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bacone | 2 | – | 4 | 2 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas College | 0 | – | 6 | 0 | – | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2016 Arizona Christian Firestorm football team represented Arizona Christian University in the 2016 NAIA football season. The Firestorm, led by first-year head coach Jeff Bowen, are members of the Central States Football League. Bowen took over the team in April 2016, when former head coach Donnie Yantis took a job with Arizona State. The 2015 team was coming off its first season in the conference, and repeated as champions during the 2016 campaign.
The departure of Donnie Yantis started an overhaul of the ACU coaching staff that off-season. Former NJCAA National Championship Coach Joe Kersting was hired to become the co-defensive coordinator along with Grant O'Brien, who had been on the staff as an assistant the previous season. Changes to the offensive staff included the promotion of Dan Friedman to Co-Offensive Coordinator along with Quarterbacks Coach, Steff Kruck. The team also hired Joe Parker as Run Game Coordinator/ Offensive Line Coach and Kyle Jacobo as Running Backs Coach. Also, Aaron Bentley joined the staff as Defensive Line Coach and Special Teams Coordinator. The team named Andrew Ludwig as Developmental Team Head Coach and Matt Silver and Farasi Norman as assistant coaches.
The 2016 schedule consisted of 5 home and 5 away games in the regular season. The Firestorm hosted CSFL foes Langston Lions, Texas College, Wayland Baptist Pioneers, and Bacone College Warriors, and traveled to SAGU Lions and Lyon College Scots.
The team's four non–conference games were against UTPB Falcons from the Lone Star Conference, Sul Ross Lobos from the American Southwest Conference, Davenport Panthers from the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference and Warner Royals from the Mid-South Conference.
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