| NCAAF | 09/10 12:00 | 1 |
West Virginia
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Wofford
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L | 35-7 | |
| NCAAF | 08/30 12:00 | 1 |
Air Force
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Wofford
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L | 49-0 | |
| NCAAF | 09/28 12:00 | 1 |
Maryland
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Wofford
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L | 37-8 | |
| NCAAF | 11/03 12:00 | 1 |
South Carolina
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Wofford
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L | 38-14 | |
| NCAAF | 09/08 12:00 | 1 |
Clemson
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Wofford
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L | 38-14 | |
| NCAAF | 11/18 12:00 | 1 | UL Monroe v Wofford | W | 6-24 |
Wikipedia - Wofford Terriers 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 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