Texas State Bobcat football
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| First season | 1904 | ||
| Athletic director | Larry Teis | ||
| Head coach |
Everett Withers 2nd season, 3–15 (.167) |
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| Stadium |
Bobcat Stadium (Capacity: 30,000) |
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| Field surface | FieldTurf Revolution 360 with CoolPlay | ||
| Location | San Marcos, Texas | ||
| Conference | Sun Belt Conference | ||
| Past conferences |
WAC (2012) Independent (2011) Southland (1987–2010) Gulf Star (1984–1986) Lone Star (1932–1983) TIAA (1922–1931) Independent (1904–1921) |
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| All-time record | 531–462–36 (.534) | ||
| Bowl record | 2–0 (1.000) | ||
| Claimed nat'l titles | 2 (1981 & 1982 Palm Bowls - Division II Championship Games) | ||
| Conference titles | 14 | ||
| Colors | Maroon and Gold |
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| Fight song | Go Bobcats! | ||
| Mascot | Boko the Bobcat | ||
| Marching band | The Pride of the Hill Country | ||
| Outfitter | Adidas | ||
| Rivals | UTSA Roadrunners | ||
| 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.
Given that the school has grown to become the fifth-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.
Southwest Texas State Normal School first fielded a football team in 1904. The team didn't have a coach in its early seasons, until 1910 when J.R. Coxen was hired onto the faculty in Manual Training. Oscar Strahan, for whom the current basketball arena is named, was hired as the university's first Director of Athletics, and served as head football coach from 1919-1934. He compiled an impressive 72-52-10 record and won 3 championships (1921, 1924, 1929). Strahan led Texas State into the T.I.A.A. in 1922 and then as a founding member of the Lone Star Conference in 1932. Joe Bailey Cheaney served as head football coach at Southwest Texas State from 1935-1942. The Bobcats went 23-42-6 during Cheaney's tenure. Cheaney was asked to resign following the 1942 season. The university did not field a football team from 1943-1945 due to World War II. Head coaches George Vest, Milton Jowers, R. W. Parker, and Jack Henry all had tenures as Texas State's head coach. Vest led the team to a conference championship in 1948, while Parker won co-championships in 1954 and 1955. Jowers, for whom Jowers Center (home of the Department of Health and Human Performance) is named, served as head coach twice (1951-1953 and 1961-1964). He compiled a 48-18-2 record, winning over 72% of his games, including a conference championship 10-0 season in 1963.
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