Austin Peay State Governors football
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| First season | 1930 | ||
| Head coach | Will Healy 2nd season, 0–11 (.000) |
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| Stadium | Fortera Stadium (Capacity: 10,000) |
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| Location | Clarksville, Tennessee | ||
| NCAA division | Division I FCS | ||
| Conference | Ohio Valley Conference | ||
| All-time record | 276–473–16 (.371) | ||
| Claimed nat'l titles | 16 | ||
| 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.
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.
Following the 1993 season, the University agreed to purchase Municipal Stadium from the Stadium Authority and Montgomery County. With the purchase, the University installed a new playing surface and, more importantly, changed the name of the facility to Governors Stadium.
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Municipal Stadium
Governors Stadium
Since 1993, the University has made several updates to the facility, replacing the playing surface in 1993, 2004 and in 2014 while adding a new scoreboard and video board combination on the stadium's south end in 2007.
However, the greatest change to the facility since its construction was approved in 2012 when the Tennessee Building Commission approved a $16 million renovation project. That project saw the stadium's west grandstand razed and replaced with a four-story structure that includes state-of-the-art amenities for student-athletes, staff and fans.
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