East Tennessee State Buccaneers football

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East Tennessee State Buccaneers football
2024 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team
First season1920; 104 years ago
Athletic directorRichard Sander
Head coachTre Lamb
1st season, 0–0 (–)
StadiumWilliam B. Greene Jr. Stadium
(capacity: 7,694)
Field surfaceArtificial
LocationJohnson City, Tennessee
NCAA divisionDivision I FCS
ConferenceSouthern Conference
All-time record382–445–27 (.463)
Bowl record4–2 (.667)
Conference titles5 (1 SMAC, 2 OVC, 2 SoCon)
RivalriesChattanooga Mocs, Western Carolina Catamounts
ColorsNavy blue and gold[1]
   
MascotBucky
Websiteetsubucs.com

The East Tennessee State Buccaneers football program is the intercollegiate American football team for East Tennessee State University (ETSU) located in Johnson City, Tennessee. The team was dormant from the end of the 2003 season until being reinstated for the 2015 season. They played all of their 2015 home games and all but one of their 2016 home games at Kermit Tipton Stadium before the opening of the new William B. Greene Jr. Stadium for the 2017 season.[2] The remaining 2016 home game, against Western Carolina on September 17, was played at nearby Bristol Motor Speedway, which was already set up for football due to a game the prior week between the University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech .[3] Before ETSU dropped football, it competed in NCAA Division I as a Southern Conference (SoCon) football program. The revived program played as an independent in 2015 before returning to the SoCon in 2016.[4]

  1. ^ East Tennessee State University Brand Guidelines. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
  2. ^ "ETSU looks to Science Hill for home field advantage over next 2 seasons".
  3. ^ "ETSU, WCU to Play at Bristol Motor Speedway" (Press release). Southern Conference. January 29, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  4. ^ "College Football Data Warehouse". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2012.