2015 Olivet Comets football team
The 2015 Olivet Comets football team, sometimes known as Team 115 in reference to the 115th season the Olivet football program had fielded a team, was an American football team that represented Olivet College during the 2015 NCAA Division III football season. The Comets play in the MIAA and played their home games at the Cutler Athletic Complex in Olivet, Michigan. Olivet was led by Dan Pifer, who was in his fourth season.
| 2015 Olivet Comets football | |
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MIAA co-champion | |
| Conference | Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association |
| Record | 9–1 (5–1 MIAA) |
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| Offensive coordinator | Dan Musielewicz (4th season) |
| Defensive coordinator | Warren Maloney (3rd season) |
| Home stadium | Cutler Athletic Complex (Capacity: 2,200) |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olivet + | 5 | – | 1 | 9 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Albion +^ | 5 | – | 1 | 9 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Adrian | 4 | – | 2 | 7 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trine | 4 | – | 2 | 6 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma | 2 | – | 4 | 5 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kalamazoo | 1 | – | 5 | 3 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hope | 0 | – | 6 | 2 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Season synopsis
The Comets won a share of the MIAA conference title for the first time since 2007 and for the eleventh time in school history. The nine wins in the season set a new single season record.
Broadcasting
For another season, broadcasting for the Comets was done by 89.1 The One WOCR FM with play-by-play done by station manager Travis Oberlin and color analysis by Daniel Neugent. The games could be heard on the radio and on wocrfm.com.
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
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| September 5 | 1:00 p.m. | Earlham* |
| Radio: WOCR | W 74–13 | 1,500 |
| September 12 | 2:00 p.m. | at Carthage* |
| Radio: WOCR | W 42–32 | 1,500 |
| September 19 | 1:00 p.m. | Aurora* |
| Radio: WOCR | W 44–14 | 1,050 |
| October 3 | 2:00 p.m. | Adrian |
| Radio: WOCR | W 35–7 | 3,647 |
| October 10 | 1:00 p.m. | at Trine |
| Radio: WOCR | W 49–24 | 5,344 |
| October 17 | 1:00 p.m. | Hope |
| Radio: WOCR | W 31–27 | 1,845 |
| October 24 | 2:00 p.m. | at Kalamazoo |
| Radio: WOCR | W 55–21 | 1,350 |
| October 31 | 1:00 p.m. | Albion |
| Radio: WOCR | L 49–21 | 4,025 |
| November 7 | 12:00 p.m. | at Concordia (Wis.)* |
| Radio: WOCR | W 56–42 | 1,206 |
| November 14 | 1:00 p.m. | at Alma |
| Radio: WOCR | W 47–29 | 1,541 |
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