2006 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team

2006 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football
Conference	Big Sky Conference
Record	6–5 (5–3 Big Sky)
Head coach	Jerome Souers (9th season)
Home stadium	Walkup Skydome

The 2006 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team was an American football team that represented Northern Arizona University (NAU) as a member of the Big Sky Conference (Big Sky) during the 2006 NCAA Division I FCS football season. In their ninth year under head coach Jerome Souers, the Lumberjacks compiled a 6–5 record (5–3 against conference opponents), outscored opponents by a total of 378 to 296, and finished fourth out of nine teams in the Big Sky.^[1]

The team played its home games at the J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome, commonly known as the Walkup Skydome, in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
August 31	7:00 p.m.	at No. 24 Arizona State*	Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, AZ	FSNAZ	L 14–35	53,540	[2]
September 9	6:00 p.m.	at Utah*	Rice–Eccles Stadium Salt Lake City, UT	MTN	L 7–45	43,327	[3]
September 16		Dixie State*	Walkup Skydome Flagstaff, AZ		W 66–14	7,283	[4]
September 23		at Idaho State	Holt Arena Pocatello, ID		W 33–27	10,016	[5]
September 30	3:05 p.m.	Montana State	Walkup Skydome Flagstaff, AZ		L 32–39	8,173	[6]
October 14	1:00 p.m.	at No. 3 Montana	Washington–Grizzly Stadium Missoula, MT	KPAX	L 21–24	23,626	[7]
October 21		Sacramento State	Walkup Skydome Flagstaff, AZ		W 39–22	7,362	[8]
October 28		at Eastern Washington	Woodward Field Cheney, WA		W 34–26	5,498	[9]
November 4		No. 25 Portland State	Walkup Skydome Flagstaff, AZ		L 26–34	5,413	[10]
November 11	3:05 p.m.	Weber State	Walkup Skydome Flagstaff, AZ		W 42–17	4,811	[11]
November 18		at Northern Colorado	Nottingham Field Greeley, CO		W 54–3	3,012	[12]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from Coaches' Poll released prior to the game All times are in Mountain time

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