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2016 Conference USA Football Championship Game

2016 Dynacraft Conference USA Football Championship Game
Conference Championship
Conference USA logo.svg
1 2 3 4 Total
Louisiana Tech 17 10 14 3 44
WKU 24 14 10 10 58
Date December 3, 2016
Season 2016
Stadium Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium
Location Bowling Green, Kentucky
MVP RB Anthony Wales (WKU)
Referee Rodney Burnette
Attendance 13,213
United States TV coverage
Network ESPN/TuneIn
Announcers Dave Pasch, Tom Luginbill, Quint Kessenich (ESPN)
TJ Rives, Kelly Holcomb (Tag Sports Group on TuneIn)
Conference USA Football Championship Game
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2016 Conference USA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
East Division
WKU xy$   7 1         11 3  
Old Dominion x   7 1         10 3  
Middle Tennessee   5 3         8 5  
FIU   4 4         4 8  
Charlotte   3 5         4 8  
Marshall   2 6         3 9  
Florida Atlantic   2 6         3 9  
West Division
Louisiana Tech xy   6 2         9 5  
UTSA   5 3         6 7  
Southern Miss   4 4         7 6  
North Texas   3 5         5 8  
Rice   2 6         3 9  
UTEP   2 6         4 8  
Championship: Western Kentucky 58, Louisiana Tech 44
  • $ – Conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
As of February 9, 2017; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2016 Conference USA Championship Game was played on Saturday, December 3, 2016 at Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and determined the 2016 football champion of Conference USA (C-USA). The game featured the West Division champion Louisiana Tech visiting the East Division champion Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (WKU), with the Hilltoppers winning 58–44. The game was broadcast nationally by ESPN for the 5th consecutive year.

If winner of the C-USA Championship Game is one of highest ranked in the rankings of the "Group of Five" conferences, the team could be placed in the playoffs if not then the Cotton Bowl. The conference champion if not selected would then pick a bowl game of their choosing to attend that has ties to the conference.

The 2016 championship game was the 12th game in the championship series. In the 2015 championship game, also hosted by WKU, the Hilltoppers defeated Southern Miss 45–28.

The game proved to be the last for Jeff Brohm as WKU's head coach; two days later, he was hired to fill the head coaching vacancy at Purdue.

The Bulldogs got off to a rough start at 1-2 before going into conference play with a close 21–20 loss to Arkansas. Louisiana Tech lost its first conference game against Middle Tennessee in which the Bulldogs lost the game in the last quarter when the Blue Raiders scored 21 points to win 38–34. The Bulldogs then went undefeated in conference play before losing their regular-season finale 39–24 to Southern Miss on November 26. They had already clinched the West Division title on November 12 by defeating UTSA, winning the division title for the second time in school history. The previous time the Bulldogs won the West Division was back in 2014, which resulted in the Bulldogs losing by 3 points to Marshall.


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