2015 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team

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2015 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football
Tennessee Tech Athletics pre-2005 logo.svg
Conference Ohio Valley Conference
Record4–7 (3–5 OVC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorSteven Brown (4th season)
Offensive scheme Multiple spread
Defensive coordinatorDonn Landholm (3rd season)
Base defense Multiple 4–2–5
Home stadium Tucker Stadium
Seasons
  2014
2016  
2015 Ohio Valley Conference football standings
ConfOverall
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.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
September 57:00 pmat Houston * ESPN3 L 24–5230,479
September 126:00 pmat Wofford * SDN L 14–346,834
September 196:00 pm Mercer * WCTE W 29–229,028
September 266:00 pmat Murray State ASN W 31–2910,620
October 36:00 pm UT Martin
ESPN3L 17–313,152
October 86:00 pmvs. No. 17 Eastern Kentucky OVCDN L 17–483,700
October 176:00 pmNo. 1 Jacksonville State
  • Tucker Stadium
  • Cookeville, TN
WCTEL 13–425,575
October 241:00 pmat Eastern Illinois OVCDNL 20–516,713
October 311:00 pmat Southeast Missouri State OVCDNL 17–382,985
November 141:30 pm Austin Peay
  • Tucker Stadium
  • Cookeville, TN (Sgt. York Trophy)
OVCDNW 42–2411,100
November 212:30 pm Tennessee State
  • Tucker Stadium
  • Cookeville, TN (Sgt. York Trophy)
ASNW 30–243,924

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