2015 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team

2015 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football
ConferenceOhio Valley Conference
Record4–7 (3–5 OVC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorSteven Brown (4th season)
Offensive schemeMultiple spread
Defensive coordinatorDonn Landholm (3rd season)
Base defenseMultiple 4–2–5
Home stadiumTucker Stadium
Seasons
← 2014
2016 →
2015 Ohio Valley Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
No. 2 Jacksonville State $^   8 0     13 2  
No. 25 Eastern Illinois ^   7 1     7 5  
UT Martin   6 2     7 4  
Eastern Kentucky   5 3     6 5  
SE Missouri State   3 4     4 7  
Tennessee Tech   3 5     4 7  
Murray State   2 6     3 8  
Tennessee State   1 6     4 6  
Austin Peay   0 8     0 11  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – FCS playoff participant
Rankings from STATS Poll

The 2015 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team represented Tennessee Technological University as a member of Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) during the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by Watson Brown in his ninth and final season as head coach, the Golden Eagles compiled an overall record of 4–7 overall with a mark of 3–5 in conference play, placing sixth in the OVC. Tennessee Tech played home games at Tucker Stadium in Cookeville, Tennessee.

The game against Eastern Kentucky originally scheduled for October 10 was played two days earlier at Toyota Stadium in Georgetown, Kentucky due to campus safety concerns in the wake of threatening graffiti in a campus restroom and other threats allegedly made over social media.[1][2]

On December 2, head coach Brown announced his retirement.[3] He his tenure at finished at Tennessee Tech with a nine-year record of 42–60.

  1. ^ "EKU Rides Strong First Half to 48-17 Win Over Tennessee Tech". Eastern Kentucky University Department of Athletics. October 8, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  2. ^ Moody, Sean (October 7, 2015). "EKU Cancels Classes for the Rest of the Week to Further Investigate Threat Found Sunday". WKYT. Lexington. Archived from the original on October 9, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  3. ^ "Watson Brown Retires After 43 Seasons as Collegiate Coach, Last Nine at Tennessee Tech".