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Wofford College Wofford College is a private liberal arts college in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It was founded in 1854. The campus is a national arboretum and one of the few four-year institutions in the southeastern United States founded before the America ...

located in the U.S. state of

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. The team competes in the

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(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

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. 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 96-97 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

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Classifications

* 1957–1969: NAIA * 1970–1987: NAIA Division I * 1988–1994:

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* 1995–present: NCAA Division I–AA/FCS

Conference memberships

* 1889–1900: Independent * 1901–1941:

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* 1942–1945: Independent * 1946–1964:

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* 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. † denotes co–champions

Bowl game appearances

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.

NCAA Division II

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

NAIA

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

Wofford vs. in-state NCAA Division I schools

Notable former players

* Brenton Bersin, former wide receiver for the

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(NFL) * Miles Brown, former defensive lineman for the

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* Fisher DeBerry, former head coach at

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in the

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(CFL) *

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, former NFL punter *

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, wide receiver for the

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, former owner of the

. * Nate Woody, defensive Coordinator at

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References

External links

* {{Southern Conference football navbox American football teams established in 1889 1889 establishments in South Carolina