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A Detailed History of Furman Football A Detailed History of Furman Football Final Standings 1. #Chattanooga 10-4 7-0 2. Samford 7-4 5-2 2. Western Caro 7-5 5-2 4. Wofford 6-5 4-3 5. The Citadel 5-7 3-4 6. Furman 3-9 2-5 7. Mercer 6-6 1-6 8. VMI 2-10 1-6 Over the past two seasons, the Mocs have now taken the place of Georgia Southern or Appa- lachian State as the team to beat and the standard by which to be compared in the Southern Conference. The Mocs are 13-2 against Southern Conference foes over the past two seasons. #-Denotes SoCon Champion and FCS Playoff The Mocs have had some truly great players on both sides of the ball that have helped partcipant. contribute to their success in the SoCon over the past two seasons, including quarterback Jacob Huesman and defensive end Davis Tull. A New Era Huesman, a junior, picked up his second SoCon Offensive Player of the Year award for his efforts in 2014, as he finished the season with the nation’s highest completion percentage (67.6%), The 2014 season was the fifth in passing efficiency (156.2), fifth in points responsible for (222), 14th in passing TDs (23) beginning of a new era for Southern Conference and 20th in rushing scores (14). football, as Mercer and VMI began playing in the league, with the exit of Appalachian State, In total, Huesman completed the 2014 season connecting on 226-of-330 passes for 2,731 yards, Georgia Southern and Elon. 23 TDs and only eight INTs. As a rushing threat, Huesman rushed the ball 197 times for 1,009 yards and 14 scores. He presided over one of the best offenses in school history, as the Mocs The 2014 season in the Southern Conference averaged 411.5 YPG. will be remembered for some exciting football games, the rise of Western Carolina, and The 2014 season marked the end of a great career, as defensive end Davis Tull set a new SoCon establishing a new identity for the league, standard with 37 career sacks, as he became the first player since Appalachian State’s two-time which had long been known as the home of Buck Buchanan Award winner Dexter Coakley to win the league’s defensive player of the year perennial FCS powers Georgia Southern and award in three-straight seasons. Appalachian State. Tull finished his senior season by leading the SoCon in sacks (10.5) and tackles-for-loss (18). Over the years, the SoCon has produced eight national title winners, however, just one of Four times in Huesman’s six seasons as head coach a Chattanooga player has claimed the those national title winners remains, as Furman’s 1988 title remains all that is left of those league’s Defensive Player of the Year award. Tull finished 12th in the voting for the Buck Buchan- eight crowns won by Marshall (2), Appalachian State (3) and Georgia Southern (6/3 as SoCon an Award, given to the best defensive player in FCS football. member). The Mocs also had one of the best newcomers in the SoCon, in freshman defensive back Lucas The league’s new identity really began in 2013, with Appalachian State and Georgia Southern Webb. Webb would tie for the league lead with six INTs, and would finish 16th in the voting for not eligible to win a Southern Conference title. the Jerry Rice Award, given to the nation’s top freshman player. Though the Southern Conference was not what it has been in previous seasons in terms of While Chattanooga was busy putting together another title run, the 2014 season would mark strength, the league still produced elite football, and by the time the sun had set on the 2014 Western Carolina’s rise back towards the top of the Southern Conference. When Mark Speir campaign, only one team was left standing--the Chattanooga Mocs. took over three years ago, the Catamount football program was in shambles. However, Speir’s Catamounts served notice to the rest of the SoCon that they better respect what Speir and the Chattanooga simply dominated its way to a second-straight Southern Conference crown, Cats are busy doing in Cullowhee. including garnering the program’s second FCS playoff berth and first in three decades. It was the culmination of six years of hard work for Mocs head coach Russ Huesman, who has battled The Catamounts would post their best to get the Chattanooga program back to being a perennial title contender in the Southern season since 2001, posting a 7-5 overall Conference, which it was during the late 1970s and early ‘80s. record and with a 5-2 Southern Conference mark, tying for second in the Southern The Mocs went 7-0 in league play, becoming the first team to finish league play unbeaten Conference standings. since Appalachian State in 2009. The Mocs did so by producing one of the most dominant runs through league play in the history of the SoCon, defeating foes by an average of 26.5 PPG. It was The five league wins by the Purple and the largest margin of victory by any SoCon team throughout a season since Marshall in 1996. Gold matches the most conference wins in program history, tying the 2001 The Mocs were the lone qualifier for the FCS football playoffs out of the Southern Conference squad, which went 5-3 in league play. in 2014, which marked the first time since 2003 when Wofford was the only selection to the The Catamounts have won five games in league’s postseason in that particular campaign. The Mocs’ dominating performance in league league play nine times since joining the play was good enough to garner the Mocs the No. 8 seed heading into the postseason, meaning SoCon in 1977. that for the first time in program history, the Mocs would host an FCS playoff game. The second-place finish in the league The Mocs would roll over Indiana State, 35-14, in the opening round of the postseason, marking standings marked the best finish since the first FCS playoff win in the history of the program. Unfortunately, however, the Mocs would 1986, and marked just the fourth time see their season end in the FCS quarterfinals with a 35-30 loss on the road at No. 1 seed New in its membership in the SoCon that the Catamounts have finished second in the Southern Hampshire. Conference. The Mocs appeared to be on their way to another historic win for the program, leading the Wild- It was a dream start to Southern Conference play for the Catamounts, who started the 2014 cats 21-15 lead at the half, dominating every statistical category. However, the Wildcats stormed campaign 4-0, marking only the second time in Southern Conference history that the Cata- back in the second half, out-scoring the Mocs 20-9 to hand Chattanooga the season-ending loss. mounts had started league play by winning four-straight games. A Detailed History of3,096 yards.Furman He finished the game against Football the Crimson Tide with a pair of TD passes to redshirt sophomore Spearman Robinson. Robinson’s second scoring reception of the day pulled the Cat- “A New Era” amounts within 17-14 of the Crimson Tide in the second quarter, however, from there Alabama would score 31 unanswered points. Making the start to SoCon play even more remark- able is the fact that the Catamounts had won a total Fifteen Catamounts would end up garnering all-conference recognition by the Southern of three games in two seasons prior to 2014. Conference, including three which were unanimous selections to the First-Team All-SoCon team. Redshirt sophomore wideout Spearman Robinson on offense, while senior defensive back Ace It was one of the best coaching jobs from one season Clark and senior linebacker Christon Gill were unanimous selections on the second team. to the next in Southern Conference history. Sophomore defensive back Trey Morgan, who tied for the league lead with six INTs, garnered The Catamounts started the season by raising some second team All-SoCon honors as selected by the coaches, while garnering First-Team All-SoCon eyebrows, as the Catamounts set the tone for a plaudits from the media. strong season by going down to South Florida and going toe-to-toe with American Athetic Conference Troy Mitchell, who finished the season connecting on 231-of-352 passes for 2,541 yards, with 20 member South Florida before dropping a 36-31 TDs and nine INTs and rushed for 555 yards and six scores finished the season as a Second Team decision. All-SoCon selection. After wins over non Division I members Brevard (45-21) and Catawba (35-17), the Catamounts were Western Carolina Junior Running Back intent on making a statement to open Southern Darius Ramsey Conference play. The Catamounts’ first opponent just happened to be one of steeped in tradition and a program that was not only the defending SoCon champion, but also the one that had claimed more league titles (13) than any other member in league history, as Western headed to Furman for the “Battle of Purple.” Western Carolina would snap an eight-game losing streak and claimed its first win in Paladin Stadium in two decades, handing the Paladins a 35-17 setback in Greenville. The story of that game was a Catamount offense that rolled up 411 yards in what was a balanced attack, while the defense limited the Paladins to 314 yards and held the Catamounts were able to limit Furman to its lowest point total in the series since 1997, when the Paladins were 17-16 losers in Cullowhee.
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