2013 The Citadel Bulldogs football team

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2013 The Citadel Bulldogs football
The Citadel Wordmark.png
Conference Southern Conference
Record5–7 (4–4 SoCon)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorBob Bodine (3rd season)
Offensive scheme Triple option
Defensive coordinatorDenny Doornbos (2nd season)
Home stadium Johnson Hagood Stadium
Seasons
  2012
2014  
2013 Southern Conference football standings
Conf.Overall
Team W L  W L 
No. 22 Furman +^  6 2   8 6  
No. 19 Samford +^  6 2   8 5  
No. 23 Chattanooga +  6 2   8 4  
Georgia Southern *  4 4   7 4  
Wofford  4 4   5 6  
The Citadel  4 4   5 7  
Appalachian State *  4 4   4 8  
Elon  1 7   2 10  
Western Carolina  1 7   2 10  
  • + Conference co-champions
  • ^ FCS playoff participant
  • * – Appalachian State and Georgia Southern ineligible for conference championship and FCS playoffs as part of FBS transition
Rankings from The Sports Network Poll

The 2013 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bulldogs were led by ninth year head coach Kevin Higgins and played their home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium. They played as members of the Southern Conference, as they have since 1936. They finished the season 5–7, 4–4 in SoCon play to finish in a four way tie for fourth place.

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At the end of the season, head coach Kevin Higgins resigned to become an assistant coach at Wake Forest.

Schedule

For the third year in a row, home games in September were scheduled for a 6:00 p.m. kickoff rather than the traditional 2:00 p.m. kickoff. The Bulldogs faced in-state FBS rival Clemson and Old Dominion, in its first year of transitioning to FBS. FCS teams were permitted to play twelve games in 2013 due to an extra Saturday falling between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. [1]

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
August 316:00 pm Charleston Southern * CSN L 29–3212,196
September 76:00 pmNo. 16 Wofford
  • Johnson Hagood Stadium
  • Charleston, SC (rivalry)
ESPN3 L 10–2114,545
September 143:30 pmat Western Carolina CSNW 28–219,345
September 216:00 pmat Old Dominion * COX L 58–5920,118
September 286:00 pm Furman
  • Johnson Hagood Stadium
  • Charleston, SC (rivalry)
CSNL 17–2412,693
October 52:00 pm Appalachian State
  • Johnson Hagood Stadium
  • Charleston, SC
CSNW 31–28 OT13,601
October 121:00 pmat No. 22 Georgia Southern CSNL 21–2816,128
October 262:00 pmat Chattanooga L 24–288,106
November 22:00 pmNo. 15 Samford Dagger-14-plain.png
  • Johnson Hagood Stadium
  • Charleston, SC
ESPN3W 28–2613,828
November 91:30 pmat Elon CSNW 35–109,256
November 161:00 pm VMI *
CSNW 31–1012,069
November 2312:00 pmat No. 7 (FBS) Clemson *ESPN3L 6–5281,554

Game summaries

Charleston Southern

Team1234Total
Buccaneers01415332
Bulldogs976729

Wofford

Team1234Total
Terriers0140721
Bulldogs0010010
  • Date: September 6
  • Location: Johnson Hagood Stadium, Charleston, SC
  • Game start: 6:00 PM EST
  • Elapsed time: 2:59
  • Game attendance: 14,545
  • Game weather: Partly Cloudy, 81
  • Referee: Thomas Graham

Western Carolina

Team1234Total
Bulldogs1477028
Catamounts0014721

Old Dominion

Team1234Total
Bulldogs72472058
Monarchs141423859
  • Date: September 21
  • Location: Foreman Field, Norfolk, VA
  • Game start: 6:00 PM EST
  • Elapsed time: 3:18
  • Game attendance: 20,118
  • Game weather: Cloudy, 77
  • Referee: Ken Antee

Furman

Team1234Total
Paladins3140724
Bulldogs073717
  • Date: September 28
  • Location: Johnson Hagood Stadium, Charleston, SC
  • Game start: 6:00 PM EST
  • Elapsed time: 2:44
  • Game attendance: 12,693
  • Game weather: Cloudy, 75
  • Referee: Rodney Burnette

Appalachian State

Team1234OTTotal
Mountaineers77014028
Bulldogs01477331
  • Date: October 5
  • Location: Johnson Hagood Stadium, Charleston, SC
  • Game start: 2:00 PM EST
  • Elapsed time: 3:03
  • Game attendance: 13,601
  • Game weather: Partly Cloudy, 82
  • Referee: Lee Hendrick

Georgia Southern

Chattanooga

Samford

Elon

VMI

Clemson

References

  1. "2013 Football Schedule – The Citadel". The Citadel Department of Athletics. Archived from the original on February 17, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2013.