CONTENTS 2016 Wildcat Football MEDIA GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS ACU Football Quick Facts .................................... 4 Offensive Players to Watch .................................. 5 Defensive Players to Watch ................................. 6 2015 Season Outlook ........................................... 7 Southland Polls ......................................................... 8
2016 Season Preview Roster (Numerical / Alphabetical).................... 10 Offense....................................................................... 14 Defense..................................................................... 15 Special Teams......................................................... 16 ACU All-Time vs. 2015 Opponents................. 18
ACU Head Coach Head Coach Ken Collums.................................. 20 ACU Football Under Ken Collums....................24
ACU Assistant Coaches Defensive Coordinator / Safeties Darian Dulin ..................................................... 25 Offensive Coordinator / Tight Ends Nathan Young ................................................. 25 Cornerbacks Coach Ray Brown ..................... 26 Offensive Line Coach Scott Carey ................. 27 Running Backs Coach Rodney Freeman ..... 27 Defensive Line Coach Cody Moore ............. 28 Linebackers / Special Teams Mark Ribaudo ................................................. 28 Wide Receivers Coach Steven Thrash ................................................ 29 ACU Athletics Training Staff ............................ 30 Strength Coach Jeff Bourque ......................... 30
2015 Season in Review 2015 Final Statistics ............................................. 32 2015 Miscellaneous Statistics ........................ 35 The Last Time ........................................................ 36
20 Coaching Staff
2
2016 Opponents Air Force / Northern Colorado ........................ 40 Houston Baptist / Stephen F. Austin .............. 41 Central Arkanss / Lamar .................................... 42 Sam Houston State / Incarnate Word ........... 43 McNeese / Northwestern State ..................... 44 Southeastern Louisiana .................................... 45 Future FBS Opponents ..................................... 46 Southland Conference Mileage Map ........... 48
ACU Wildcats DeAndré Brown...................................................... 50 Sam Denmark........................................................... 51 Parker McKenzie..................................................... 52 Dallas Sealy.............................................................. 53 Returning Lettermen.............................................. 54 Squadmen / Redshirts............................................ 65 Transfers........................................................................67 2016 Freshmen.......................................................... 70
Southland Conference This is the Southland Conference ..................76 2015 Southland Conference statistics ..........79
ACU Record Book Records (Game, Season, Career) .................. 82 Longest Plays ......................................................... 83 ACU Top Offensive Games............................... 84 ACU 100-yard Rushing Games ....................... 85 ACU 250-yard Passing Games ....................... 87 ACU 100-yard Receiving Games ................... 88 ACU Single-Game Bests ................................... 89 Opponents’ Single-Game Bests .................... 90 Year-by-Year Leaders ......................................... 92 Career Offensive Leaders ................................ 95 ACU All-Purpose Leaders ................................ 98
50 Meet the Wildcats
76 Around the Southland
2016 ACU WILDCAT FOOTBALL
86 ACU Record Book
ACU Kicking Records ......................................... 99 Career Defensive Leaders ............................. 100 ACU Points Scored Records ............................ 101 ACU in the LSC Record Book ......................... 102
ACU History ACU Football History ........................................ 104 ACU Championship Teams ............................. 105 Wildcats in All-Star Games ............................. 105 ACU Award Winners .......................................... 106 ACU Coaching Honors ..................................... 107 Wildcats on Honor Teams ............................... 108 Year-by-Year Scores ........................................... 112 ACU Homecoming Record .............................. 120 ACU Football Head Coaches .......................... 121 ACU School-by-School Scores ..................... 122 All-time vs. Opponents ..................................... 128 ACU All-Century Team ..................................... 129 ACU All-Decade Teams ................................... 129 ACU in the Postseason .................................... 130 ACU Postseason Records ............................... 130 Wildcats in the NFL ............................................ 132
This is ACU ACU at a Glance .................................................. 134 Director of Athletics Lee De Léon ............... 136 ACU Athletics Administration ........................ 137 Athletics Endowments ...................................... 143 Vision in Action .................................................. 144 ACU Athletics Facilities .................................... 146 ACU and the Southland ................................... 148 Academic Overview ........................................... 151 Academic Innovation ........................................ 152 Notable Alumni .................................................... 154 ACU Athletics Excellence ................................ 156 This is Abilene ..................................................... 158
108 ACU History
138 This is ACU
3