Texas State Bobcats football

Stadium

Bobcat Stadium

Seating capacity

30,000

Field surface

FieldTurf Revolution 360 with CoolPlay

Location

San Marcos, Texas

Conference

Sun Belt

Past conferences

WAC (2012)
Independent (2011)
Southland (1987–2010)
Gulf Star (1984–1986)
Lone Star (1932–1983)
TIAA (1922–1931)
Independent (1904–1921)

All-time record

504–421–26 (.544)

Bowl record

2–0 (1.000)

Claimed nat'l titles

2^[1] (1981 & 1982 Palm Bowls - Division II Championship Games)

Conference titles

Colors

Maroon and Gold^[2]

Fight song

Go Bobcats!

Mascot

Boko the Bobcat

Marching band

The Pride of the Hill Country

Outfitter

Adidas

Rivals

UTSA

Website

Texas State Bobcats

The Texas State Bobcats football program is an NCAA Division I-FBS college football team that represents Texas State University. They currently play in the Sun Belt Conference. The program began in 1904 and has an overall winning record. The program has a total of fourteen conference titles, nine of them being outright conference titles. Beginning with the 2016 season, the Bobcats have been coached by Everett Withers. Home games are played at Bobcat Stadium in San Marcos, Texas.^[3]

Given that the school has grown to become the fourth-largest university in Texas, and one of the 75 largest universities in the United States, it has now taken its football program to the Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA football.

The team became a member of the FBS Western Athletic Conference in 2012. After only one season in the WAC, Texas State moved to the Sun Belt Conference. Texas State joined the league in July 2013 and began conference play for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Championship history

In 2005, Texas State split the Southland Conference title with rival Nicholls State, and advanced to the Division I-AA football playoffs for the first time since the 1980s, losing in the semifinal to eventual national runner-up Northern Iowa, and finishing with an 11-3 record.

In 2008, Texas State overcame a 21-0 deficit to win the Southland Conference championship with a 48-45 overtime victory against Sam Houston State, its first outright league title since 1982.

Texas State joined the WAC effective July 1, 2012.^[4]

National championships

Year	Coach	Record	Championship
1981	Jim Wacker	13–1	NCAA Division II National Champions
1982	Jim Wacker	14–0	NCAA Division II National Champions

Conference championships

Only nine of Texas State's fourteen conference titles are outright titles. The other five are shared titles.^[5]

Year	Conference	Overall Record	Conference Record
1921	Texas Normal Championship	7–0–0	5–0–0
1924	Texas Teachers College Championship	5–3–0	5–1–0
1929	Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association	6–1–2	4–0–2
1948	Lone Star Conference (NAIA)	8–1–0	4–0–0
1954†	Lone Star Conference (NAIA)	6–3–1	5–0–1
1955†	Lone Star Conference (NAIA)	6–5–0	4–0–0
1963	Lone Star Conference (NAIA)	10–0–0	6–0–0
1971†	Lone Star Conference (NAIA)	8–1–1	7–1–1
1980	Lone Star Conference (Division II)	8–3–0	5–1–0
1981	Lone Star Conference (Division II)	13–1–0	6–1–0
1982	Lone Star Conference (Division II)	14–0–0	7–0–0
1983†	Lone Star Conference (Division II)	9–2–0	6–1–0
2005†	Southland Conference (Division I FCS)	11–3	4–1
2008	Southland Conference (Division I FCS)	8–5	6–2

† Denotes shared title. Reference: ^[6]

Conference affiliations

1904–1921: Independent
1922–1931: Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association
1932–1983: Lone Star Conference
1984–1986: Gulf Star Conference
1987–2010: Southland Conference
2011: Independent
2012: Western Athletic Conference
2013–present: Sun Belt Conference

No Team: 1905–1908, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1942, 1944, 1945

Division I-A/FBS Bowl Game results

The Bobcats have been bowl eligible twice since moving up to Division I-FBS. In 2013, Texas State went 6-6 in the first year the Bobcats were eligible to win a conference title or attend a bowl game after their 2-year FCS to FBS transition. In 2014, Texas State finished the season 7–5, 5–3 in Sun Belt play to finish in a three way tie for fourth place. Although eligible, they were not selected to participate in a bowl game; the Bobcats were the only eligible 7–5 FBS team not to receive a bowl bid.

Division I-AA/FCS Playoffs results

The Bobcats have appeared in the I-AA/FCS playoffs two times with an overall record of 2–2.

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
2005	First Round Quarterfinals Semifinals	Georgia Southern Cal Poly Northern Iowa	W 50–35 W 14–7 L 37–40
2008	First Round	Montana	L 13–31

Division II Playoffs results

The Bobcats have appeared in the Division II playoffs three times with an overall record of 6–1. They are two time National Champions (1981, 1982).

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
1981	Quarterfinals Semifinals National Championship Game	Jacksonville State Northern Michigan North Dakota State	W 38–22 W 62–0 W 42–13
1982	Quarterfinals Semifinals National Championship Game	Fort Valley State Jacksonville State UC Davis	W 27–6 W 19–14 W 34–9
1983	Quarterfinals	Central State	L 16–24

All-time record vs. Sun Belt teams

Official record (including any NCAA imposed vacates and forfeits) against all current Sun Belt opponents:

Opponent	Won	Lost	Percentage	Streak	First	Last
Appalachian State	0	2	.000	Lost 2	2004	2016
Arkansas State	1	2	.333	Lost 1	2013	2015
Coastal Carolina	0	0	–	—	—	—
Georgia Southern	1	2	.333	Lost 2	2005	2015
Georgia State	2	2	.500	Lost 2	2013	2016
Idaho	4	5	.444	Lost 2	1990	2016
Louisiana–Lafayette	0	4	.000	Lost 4	2013	2016
Louisiana–Monroe	4	9	.308	Lost 1	1986	2016
New Mexico State	2	1	.667	Loss 1	2012	2015
South Alabama	2	1	.667	Won 1	2013	2015
Troy	1	5	.167	Lost 4	1996	2013
Totals	17	33	.340

Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football will begin competition in 2017

Rivalries

Texas State football maintains one current rivalry with the UTSA Roadrunners and have a number of defunct rivalries caused by conference realignment.

Current rivalries

I-35 Maroon/Orange Rivalry - UTSA Roadrunners

Texas State and UT-San Antonio faced off for the first time in the football continuation of the I-35 Maroon/Orange Rivalry between the two schools in the Alamodome November 24, 2012. The Bobcats lost the game to the UTSA Roadrunners by a score of 38 to 31 and, thus hold an 0 - 1 disadvantage to UTSA. The two teams are scheduled to play 8 Home and Home games beginning in 2017.

Defunct rivalries

Sam Houston State Bearkats

Texas State and Sam Houston State faced each other 89 times on the gridiron between 1919 and 2011, making the Bearkats the most familiar Bobcat rival in program history. Both programs have experienced long runs of success and failure throughout their histories, and the rivalry was strengthened further by geographical proximity, cultural differences, and being peer institutions in the same university system.

After Texas State's move to FBS and the WAC in 2012, the series was discontinued. Sam Houston State won the most recent tilt between the two teams in San Marcos on November 19, 2011 by a score of 36-14. It is unknown whether the two schools will schedule each other for future matchups.

Texas State currently holds a 48-36-4 series lead.

Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks

The Lumberjacks and Bobcats played each other continuously through multiple conference realignments and name changes from 1923-2012. The rivalry has mostly been based on proximity and familiarity rather than parity and competitiveness between the two programs, as one program has generally been successful while the other has struggled.

Texas State won the latest tilt between the two foes in San Marcos, 41-37, on September 22, 2012. Texas State currently holds a 57-29-1 series lead.

Battle for the Paddle - Nicholls State Colonels

In fall 1998, just before the Bobcats were scheduled to take on the Nicholls State Colonels, rains flooded San Marcos and the field at Bobcat Stadium. Athletic directors and coaches from each school decided not to continue with the game and coined the annual contest named "Battle for the Paddle," joking that fans and athletes needed to use a boat and paddle to get to the game. The game eventually took place on November 28, 1998 with the Bobcats prevailing 28-27 to win the Paddle.

NSU Athletic Director Rob Bernardi brought controversy to the final chapter of the rivalry in 2011, when he refused to bring the Paddle to San Marcos due to Texas State having a scholarship advantage as an FCS transitional school.^[7] Texas State players and fans made their own paddles in response, and the Bobcats won 38-12. It is unknown whether the two schools will schedule each other in the future.

Nicholls State currently holds the series lead, 16-14.

SWT vs. A&I - Texas A&M-Kingsville Javelinas

The Bobcats and Javelinas were fierce rivals in the Lone Star Conference from the year of entry of TAMU-Kingsville (then Texas A&I University) into the LSC in 1954 to the year of departure of Texas State (then Southwest Texas State University) to the Gulf Star Conference in 1984. However, by the time of TAMU-Kingsville's entry into the LSC, both teams were already quite familiar with each other, having played continuously from 1939-1953 and six times from 1925-1938. Both teams were very competitive and generally successful during the time of their rivalry, as Texas State won nine Lone Star Conference titles and two (NCAA Division II) national titles and TAMU-Kingsville won twelve Lone Star Conference titles and nine (NAIA) national titles. The two schools continued to play each other after Texas State's departure from the Lone Star Conference with only one interruption (1986) from 1984-1995. Texas State won the last meeting, 28-21, in San Marcos on September 7, 2002. It is unlikely that the two schools will face each other in the future due to Texas State's move to the NCAA Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision and TAMU-Kingsville's continued residence in the NCAA's Division II.

The Javelinas currently hold the series lead, 33-25-2.

Other Rivalries

Other rivals from Texas State's years in the Lone Star, Gulf Star, and Southland Conferences include Angelo State, Texas A&M-Commerce (then East Texas State), Abilene Christian, and North Texas.

Future non-conference opponents

Announced schedules as of September 8, 2015

2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
at Ohio	vs Houston Baptist	at Rutgers	at Texas A&M	vs UTSA	at UTSA	vs UTSA	at Baylor	vs UTSA	at UTSA
at Arkansas	at Colorado	at UTSA	vs Wyoming	vs SMU	at Baylor	vs Baylor	at UTSA	vs Arizona State	at Arizona State
vs Houston	vs UTSA	vs Tulsa	at SMU	vs Ohio
vs Incarnate Word	at Wyoming

^[8]

Current Bobcats in the NFL

Name	Position	Team
Joplo Bartu	LB	Arizona Cardinals
Adrian Bellard	T	Chicago Bears
Craig Mager	DB	San Diego Chargers
David Mayo	LB	Carolina Panthers
David Mims II	CB	Atlanta Falcons
Darryl Morris	CB	Indianapolis Colts
Ty Nsekhe	T	Washington Redskins

^[9]

References

↑ "Southwest Texas St. Bowl History". Cfbdatawarehouse.com. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
↑ Texas State University Athletic Logos Art Sheet (PDF). Texas State Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. 2015-01-12. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
↑ "Texas State Football History Database". Txstatebobcats.cstv.com. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
↑ Archived March 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ Archived December 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
↑ http://txstatebobcats.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/092304aaa.html
↑ "Goodbye to the paddle". HoumaToday.com. 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
↑ "Texas State Bobcats Football Schedules and Future Schedules". Fbschedules.com. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
↑ "NFL Players by College - T". espn.go.com. Retrieved July 18, 2016.

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Texas State Bobcats football

Venues	Evans Field (a.k.a. Normal Field) (1915–1931) Evans Field (a.k.a. Kyle Field) (1932–1980) Bobcat Stadium (1981–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Nicholls State: Battle for the Paddle UTSA: I-35 Rivalry

Culture & lore	Boko the Bobcat "Go Bobcats!" The Pride of the Hill Country

People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders

Seasons	1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1922 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

National championship seasons in bold

Texas State University

Academics

Colleges	College of Applied Arts McCoy College of Business College of Education College of Fine Arts and Communication College of Health Professions College of Liberal Arts College of Science and Engineering University College Graduate College

Research	Alkek Library Aquarena Center

Athletics

Teams	Baseball Football Other Sports

Facilities	Bobcat Baseball Stadium Bobcat Stadium Strahan Coliseum

Campus

Student Life

People

Alumni

Traditions

Boko the Bobcat
Bobcat Build
I-35 Rivalry

Sun Belt Conference football

Current teams	Appalachian State Mountaineers Arkansas State Red Wolves Georgia Southern Eagles Georgia State Panthers Idaho Vandals Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks New Mexico State Aggies South Alabama Jaguars Texas State Bobcats Troy Trojans

Future teams	Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (2017)

Championships & awards	List of Sun Belt Conference football champions All-time standings

Seasons	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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