Wofford Terriers football

{{Short description|Football team of Wofford College}}

{{For|information on all Wofford College sports|Wofford Terriers}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}}{{Infobox college football team

| CurrentSeason = 2024 Wofford Terriers football team

| TeamName = Wofford Terriers football

| Image = Wofford football textlogo.png

| ImageSize = 200

| FirstYear = {{start date and age|1889}}

| AthleticDirector = Richard Johnson

| HeadCoach = Shawn Watson

| HeadCoachYear = 2nd

| HCWins = 10

| HCLosses = 19

| Stadium = Gibbs Stadium

| StadCapacity = 13,000

| StadSurface = Grass

| Location = Spartanburg, South Carolina

| NCAAdivision = I FCS

| PastAffiliations = Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association

| Conference = Southern Conference

| ATWins = 478

| ATLosses = 467

| ATTies = 35

| BowlWins = 0

| BowlLosses = 1

| NatlTitles =

| Playoffs = 9–10

| ConfTitles = 7 (2003, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2019)

| AllAmericans =

| uniform =

| FightSong =

| MascotDisplay = Terriers

| MarchingBand =

| Rivalries = The Citadel (rivalry)
Furman (rivalry)

| WebsiteName = woffordterriers.com

| WebsiteURL = https://woffordterriers.com/sports/football

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The Wofford Terriers football program is the intercollegiate American football team for Wofford College located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as members of the Southern Conference (SoCon). Wofford's first football team was fielded in 1889. The team plays its home games at the 13,000 seat Gibbs Stadium in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Josh Conklin is the current head coach for the Terriers.

History

Wofford fielded its first football team in 1889. That season, Wofford and Furman played the first intercollegiate football game in South Carolina. There is no record of more than four games in a season before 1900.[https://www.wofford.edu/about/news/wofford-today/archive/2020/winter/from-the-archives From the archives - Sports: The early years] on Wofford.edu

Wofford moved from Division II to join the Division I-AA Southern Conference in the 1996–97 season. Since then, Wofford has won 7 Southern Conference Championships, and received bids to the FCS Playoffs 10 times with the most recent bid coming in 2019. Wofford is typically one of the strongest teams in the Southern Conference every year.

Wofford's best finish since moving from Division II was a trip to the National Semi-finals at Delaware in 2003, where they fell 24–9. Mike Ayers, Wofford's winningest and most honored coach who served as head coach for thirty years, retired following the 2017 season, when Wofford made it to the national quarterfinals and finished #8 in the national polls. In recent years, Wofford's football and other athletic teams have finished near the top in the country in APR, which measures athletic performance of athletes. Numerous football players have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

=Classifications=

1957–1969: NAIA
1970–1987: NAIA Division I
1988–1994: NCAA Division II
1995–present: NCAA Division I–AA/FCS

=Conference memberships=

1889–1900: Independent
1901–1941: Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1942–1945: Independent
1946–1964: South Carolina Little Three
1965–1987: NAIA Independent
1988–1994: NCAA Division II independent
1995–1996: NCAA Division I–AA independent
1997–present: Southern Conference

Conference championships

Wofford has won seven conference championships, three outright and four shared.

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2003	rowspan="7"\|Southern Conference	rowspan="5"\|Mike Ayers	12–2	8–0
2007†	9–4	5–2
2010†	10–3	7–1
2012†	9–4	6–2
2017	10–3	7–1
2018†	rowspan="2"\|Josh Conklin	9–4	6–2
2019	8–5	7–1

† denotes co–champions

Bowl game appearances

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L 6–19

Playoff appearances

=NCAA Division I-AA/FCS=

The Terriers have appeared in the I-AA/FCS playoffs ten times with an overall record of 9–10.

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2003	First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals	North Carolina A&T Western Kentucky Delaware	W 31–0 W 34–17 L 9–24
2007	First Round Quarterfinals	Montana Richmond	W 23–22 L 10–21
2008	First Round	James Madison	L 35–38
2010	Second Round Quarterfinals	Jacksonville State Georgia Southern	W 17–14 L 20–23
2011	Second Round	Northern Iowa	L 21–28
2012	Second Round Quarterfinals	New Hampshire North Dakota State	W 23–7 L 7–14
2016	First Round Second Round Quarterfinals	Charleston Southern The Citadel Youngstown State	W 15–14 W 17–3 L 23–30 ^2OT
2017	Second Round Quarterfinals	Furman North Dakota State	W 28–10 L 10–42
2018	First Round Second Round	Elon Kennesaw State	W 19–7 L 10–13
2019	First Round	Kennesaw State	L 21–28

=NCAA Division II=

The Terriers have appeared in the Division II playoffs two times with an overall record of 0–2.

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1990	First Round	Mississippi College	L 19–70
1991	First Round	Mississippi College	L 15–28

=NAIA=

The Terriers appeared in the NAIA playoffs one time. Their combined record was 1–1.

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{{CollegePrimaryHeader|team=Wofford Terriers|Year|Round|Opponent|Result}}

| Semifinals
National Championship Game

| New Mexico Highlands
Texas A&I

| W, 28–23
L, 7–48

Wofford vs. in-state NCAA Division I schools

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" ! School !! Record !! Percentage !! Streak !! First meeting !! Last meeting
Charleston Southern	14–0	{{Winning percentage\|14\|0}}	Won 14	1993	2016
Clemson	3–13	{{Winning percentage\|3\|12}}	Lost 5	1896	2019
Coastal Carolina	0–1	{{Winning percentage\|0\|1}}	Lost 1	2006	2006
Furman	33–54–7	{{Winning percentage\|33\|54\|7}}	Won 1	1889	2019
Presbyterian	41–40–3	{{Winning percentage\|41\|40\|3}}	Won 6	1914	2017
South Carolina	4–20	{{Winning percentage\|4\|20}}	Lost 17	1895	2017
South Carolina State	6–3	{{Winning percentage\|6\|3}}	Lost 1	1974	2019
The Citadel	30–42–1	{{Winning percentage\|30\|42\|1}}	Won 4	1916	2019
colspan=6\| Total: 124–169–11

Notable former players

{{main|List of Wofford Terriers in the NFL draft}}

Brenton Bersin, former wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL)
Miles Brown, former defensive lineman for the Tennessee Titans
Fisher DeBerry, former head coach at Air Force and College Football Hall of Famer
Ameet Pall, former defensive end in the Canadian Football League (CFL)
Kasey Redfern, former NFL punter
Jerry Richardson, wide receiver for the Baltimore Colts, former owner of the Carolina Panthers.{{cite web|last1=Hoffer|first1=Richard|title=The Franchise|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1140299/2/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140622200003/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1140299/2/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 22, 2014|publisher=Sports Illustrated|access-date=22 June 2014}}
Nate Woody, Defensive coordinator at Army
Shiel Wood, Defensive coordinator at Houston
Greg Gasparato, Defensive coordinator at Tulane

Yearly results

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!Coach

!Win

!Loss

!Tie

1889

|Edwin Kerrison

|2

|0

|0

1890

|

|0

|2

|0

1893

|

|0

|1

|0

1894

|

|0

|1

|0

1895

|William Wertenbaker

|3

|1

|0

1896

|

|2

|2

|0

1900

|

|1

|2

|1

1901

|J. Norman Walker

|2

|3

|0

1914

|Curtis McCoy

|1

|6

|1

1915

|Harvey Hester

|3

|5

|0

1916

|Leslie Moser

|2

|7

|0

1917

|Leslie Moser

|5

|4

|0

1918

|Bernard Peters

|0

|3

|0

1919

|J.P. Major

|3

|2

|1

1920

|John F. Gorsuch

|0

|8

|1

1921

|John Gilroy

|2

|7

|0

1922

|J.P. Major

|2

|7

|0

1923

|J.P. Major

|6

|3

|0

1924

|J.P. Major

|3

|7

|0

1925

|J.P. Major

|3

|7

|0

1926

|J.P. Major

|2

|8

|0

1927

|Tommy Scaffe

|2

|4

|3

1928

|Tommy Scaffe

|7

|2

|1

1929

|Tommy Scaffe

|3

|6

|0

1930

|Tommy Scaffe

|2

|9

|0

1931

|Tommy Scaffe

|4

|5

|0

1932

|Tommy Scaffe

|3

|6

|1

1933

|Tommy Scaffe

|3

|6

|0

1934

|Jules Carson

|4

|4

|1

1935

|Jules Carson

|4

|4

|1

1936

|Jules Carson

|1

|7

|1

1937

|Jules Carson

|2

|7

|0

1938

|Jules Carson

|0

|8

|1

1939

|Jules Carson

|1

|5

|3

1940

|Jules Carson

|3

|4

|2

1941

|Jules Carson

|4

|6

|0

1942

|Ted Petoskey

|2

|5

|0

1946

|Ted Petoskey

|1

|8

|0

1947

|Phil Dickens

|6

|5

|0

1948

|Phil Dickens

|4

|0

|5

1949

|Phil Dickens

|11

|1

|0

1950

|Phil Dickens

|7

|2

|1

1951

|Phil Dickens

|6

|3

|1

1952

|Phil Dickens

|6

|5

|0

1953

|6

|4

|1

1954

|8

|2

|0

1955

|7

|4

|0

1956

|7

|3

|0

1957

|8

|2

|0

1958

|3

|7

|0

1959

|5

|5

|0

1960

|5

|3

|0

1961

|5

|4

|2

1962

|2

|8

|0

1963

|4

|6

|0

1964

|6

|4

|0

1965

|5

|4

|0

1966

|6

|3

|1

1967

|Jim Brakefield

|4

|6

|0

1968

|Jim Brakefield

|4

|7

|0

1969

|Jim Brakefield

|9

|2

|0

1970

|Jim Brakefield

|11

|1

|0

1971

|Jack Peterson

|6

|4

|0

1972

|Jack Peterson

|6

|4

|0

1973

|Jack Peterson

|4

|6

|1

1974

|Steve Satterfield

|7

|4

|0

1975

|Steve Satterfield

|7

|3

|1

1976

|Steve Satterfield

|4

|7

|0

1977

|7

|3

|1

1978

|3

|8

|0

1979

|5

|5

|0

1980

|7

|2

|2

1981

|6

|5

|0

1982

|8

|3

|0

1983

|Bill Parker

|6

|5

|0

1984

|Bill Parker

|2

|9

|0

1985

|3

|8

|0

1986

|4

|6

|1

1987

|1

|10

|0

1988

|5

|5

|0

1989

|6

|5

|0

1990

|9

|3

|0

1991

|9

|3

|0

1992

|6

|5

|0

1993

|7

|3

|1

1994

|5

|6

|0

1995

|4

|7

|0

1996

|6

|5

|0

1997

|3

|7

|0

1998

|4

|7

|0

1999

|6

|5

|0

2000

|7

|4

|0

2001

|4

|7

|0

2002

|9

|3

|0

2003

|12

|2

|0

2004

|8

|3

|0

2005

|6

|5

|0

2006

|7

|4

|0

2007

|9

|4

|0

2008

|9

|3

|0

2009

|3

|8

|0

|10

|3

|0

|8

|4

|0

|9

|4

|0

|5

|6

|0

|6

|5

|0

|5

|6

|0

|10

|4

|0

|10

|3

|0

|9

|4

|0

|8

|4

|0

|1

|4

|0

|1

|10

|0

|0

|5

|0

|3

|3

|0

|2

|9

|0

Total

|

|551

|543

|36

Future non-conference opponents

Announced schedules as of March 25, 2025.{{cite web |title=Wofford Terriers Football Future Schedules |url=https://fbschedules.com/ncaa/wofford/ |access-date=March 25, 2025 |publisher=FBSchedules.com}}

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References

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External links

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{{Official website}}

{{Wofford Terriers football navbox}}

{{Southern Conference football navbox}}

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