Austin Peay Governors football
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| First season | 1930 | ||
| Head coach | Will Healy 1st year, 0–11 (.000) |
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| Stadium | Fortera Stadium | ||
| Seating capacity | 10,000 | ||
| Location | Clarksville, Tennessee | ||
| NCAA division | Division I FCS | ||
| Conference | Ohio Valley Conference | ||
| All-time record | 276–473–16 (.371) | ||
| Conference titles | 3 | ||
| Colors | Red and White |
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| Website | letsgopeay.com | ||
The Austin Peay Governors Football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Austin Peay State University located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Ohio Valley Conference. The school's first football team was fielded in 1930. They were previously a member of the Pioneer Football League from 2001 through 2005. The team plays its home games at the 10,000 seat Fortera Stadium After a 1-34 record from the years 2013-2015, (32 losses by double digits) former Head Coach Kirby Cannon was relieved of his duties. On December 21, 2015, Austin Peay hired Will Healy as the football program's 19th Head Coach. Healy held many titles in his seven seasons as the quarterbacks coach, wide receivers coach, passing game coordinator and recruiting coordinator at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. After a standout prep career at Boyd-Buchanan (Chattanooga) in which he was a two-time all-state honoree and a Mr. Football finalist, Healy went to the University of Richmond, where he was a quarterback on the Spiders' 2008 Football Championship Subdivision national title team.
He followed Richmond defensive coordinator Huesman to UTC when Huesman was named the Mocs' head coach in 2009, and he coached quarterbacks in his first season before taking over as the receivers coach the following season.
Healy was involved in three consecutive conference championships and back-to-back FCS playoff appearances at UTC.
Following National Signing Day 2016, and in less than two months after being hired, Healy worked to produce the #132 ranked recruiting class in the nation for APSU, and #5 overall at the FCS level.
The new Governors Stadium opened the 2014 season following the completion of a massive $16.9 million renovation that replaced the west side grandstands with a new structure that includes state-of-the-art amenities for student-athletes, coaches and fans as well as skyboxes, club-type seating and new chairback seating.
Fortera Stadium originally was named Municipal Stadium when it opened in 1946 due to its construction by the City of Clarksville. The city owned and operated the facility while permitting the University use of the stadium for an annual sum. That arrangement lasted until 1970 when the city conveyed title to one-third of the stadium to the State for the university and signed a cooperative agreement with Austin Peay State University, Montgomery County (to which it also gave one-third of the stadium's title) and the city to form the Municipal Stadium Authority to operate and maintain the facility.
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