2003 Chattanooga Mocs football team

2003 Southern Conference football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 3 Wofford $^	8	–	0	12	–	2
Appalachian State	6	–	2	7	–	4
No. 24 Georgia Southern	5	–	3	7	–	4
Furman	4	–	4	6	–	5
The Citadel	4	–	4	6	–	6
Western Carolina	3	–	5	4	–	7
Chattanooga	3	–	5	3	–	9
East Tennessee State	2	–	6	5	–	7
Elon	1	–	7	2	–	10

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant Rankings from The Sports Network I-AA Poll

The 2003 Chattanooga Mocs football team represented the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) in the 2003 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Mocs were led by first-year head coach Rodney Allison and played their home games at Finley Stadium. They finished the season 3–9 overall and 3–5 in SoCon play to tie for sixth place.^[1]^[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
August 28	Samford*	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	L 23–31	9,003
September 6	at Vanderbilt*	Vanderbilt Stadium Nashville, TN	L 6–51	26,176
September 13	Tennessee Tech*	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	L 10–35	7,802
September 20	at Gardner–Webb*	Spangler Stadium Boiling Springs, NC	L 13–23	3,789
September 27	at No. 16 Georgia Southern	Paulson Stadium Statesboro, GA	L 3–34	18,623
October 4	No. 12 Wofford	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	L 14–42	7,409
October 18	at Elon	Rhodes Stadium Elon, NC	W 24–7	3,271
October 25	Western Carolina	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	W 38–0	6,693
November 1	at No. 6 Appalachian State	Kidd Brewer Stadium Boone, NC	L 7–47	8,753	^[3]
November 8	The Citadel	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	W 29–20	6,079
November 15	at East Tennessee State	Memorial Center Johnson City, TN	L 7–68	4,419
November 22	Furman	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	L 21–63	5,044	^[4]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from The Sports Network Poll released prior to the game

^ "2003 Football Schedule". Tennessee at Chattanooga, University of.
^ "UTC-Tennessee Tech game stats". Tennessee at Chattanooga, University of.
^ "Appalachian State rolls to victory". The News and Observer. November 2, 2003. Retrieved December 1, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Paladins finish with a flourish". The Greenville News. November 23, 2003. Retrieved September 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

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