2009 Wofford Terriers football team

2009 Southern Conference football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 3 Appalachian State $^	8	–	0	11	–	3
No. 9 Elon ^	7	–	1	9	–	3
Furman	5	–	3	6	–	5
Chattanooga	4	–	4	6	–	5
Georgia Southern	4	–	4	5	–	6
Samford	3	–	5	5	–	6
Wofford	2	–	6	3	–	8
The Citadel	2	–	6	4	–	7
Western Carolina	1	–	7	2	–	9

$ – Conference champion ^ – FCS playoff participant Rankings from The Sports Network poll

The 2009 Wofford Terriers football team represented Wofford College during the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was led by 22nd-year head coach Mike Ayers and played its home games at Gibbs Stadium. It finished the regular season with a 3–8 record overall and a 2–6 record in the Southern Conference, tying for seventh place.^[1]^[2]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 5	7:00 pm	at South Florida*		Raymond James Stadium Tampa, FL	BHSN	L 7–40	40,360^[3]
September 12	7:00 pm	Charleston Southern*	No. 14	Gibbs Stadium Spartanburg, SC		W 42–14	7,017
September 19	12:00 pm	at Wisconsin*		Camp Randall Stadium Madison, WI	BTN	L 14–44	78,253^[4]
September 26	6:00 pm	at Chattanooga	No. 17	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN		L 9–38	8,452
October 3	1:30 pm	Georgia Southern		Gibbs Stadium Spartanburg, SC		L 21–26	8,490
October 17	3:00 pm	No. 9 Appalachian State		Gibbs Stadium Spartanburg, SC	SportSouth	L 34–44	8,330
October 24	4:00 pm	at Western Carolina		Bob Waters Field at E. J. Whitmire Stadium Cullowhee, NC		W 35–26	10,017
October 31	1:30 pm	Elon		Gibbs Stadium Spartanburg, SC		L 6–34
November 7	3:05 pm	at The Citadel		Johnson Hagood Stadium Charleston, SC (rivalry)	SSN	W 43–17	15,155
November 14	1:30 pm	Samford		Gibbs Stadium Spartanburg, SC		L 24–27
November 21		at Furman		Paladin Stadium Greenville, SC (rivalry)		L 21–58	9,435	^[5]
*Non-conference game Rankings from The Sports Network Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

^ "2009 Football Schedule".
^ "Wofford Yearly Results: 2010-2014". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 23, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
^ "Wofford Terriers vs. South Florida Bulls Box Score". ESPN. September 5, 2009. Archived from the original on March 20, 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
^ "Wofford Terriers vs. Wisconsin Badgers Box Score". ESPN. September 19, 2009. Retrieved March 9, 2010.
^ "Paladins end on high note". The Greenville News. November 22, 2009. Retrieved September 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

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