1985 Chattanooga Moccasins football team

1985 Southern Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant; Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee poll

1985 Chattanooga Moccasins football
1985 Chattanooga Moccasins football
Conference	Southern Conference
1985 record	6–5 (5–2 SoCon)
Head coach	Buddy Nix (2nd season);
Captain	Brent Johnson, Glen Richardson
Home stadium	Chamberlain Field; (capacity: 10,501)
	Seasons ← 1984 1986 →

The 1985 Chattanooga Moccasins football team represented the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) in the 1985 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Moccasins were led by second-year head coach Buddy Nix and played their home games at Chamberlain Field. They finished the season 6–5 overall and 5–2 in SoCon play to place third.^[1]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Rank	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 7	at Vanderbilt*		Vanderbilt Stadium Nashville, TN	L 0–7	41,057
September 21	at East Tennessee State		Memorial Center Johnson City, TN	W 12–0	8,744
September 28	Georgia Southern*		Chamberlain Field Chattanooga, TN	L 14–19	8,892
October 5	Southeastern Louisiana*		Chamberlain Field Chattanooga, TN	W 27–7	9,148
October 12	Appalachian State		Conrad Stadium Boone, NC	L 0–25	20,284	^[2]
October 19	The Citadel		Chamberlain Field Chattanooga, TN	W 34–17	7,993
October 26	at Western Carolina		Whitmire Stadium Cullowhee, NC	W 23–3	11,765
November 2	No. 11 Marshall		Chamberlain Field Chattanooga, TN	W 38–7	8,369
November 9	at Georgia Tech*	No. 20	Grant Field Atlanta, GA	L 7–35	25,763
November 16	VMI		Chamberlain Field Chattanooga, TN	W 54–7	5,652
November 23	at No. 2 Furman		Paladin Stadium Greenville, SC	L 0–28	13,134
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee Poll released prior to the game

^ "1985 Football Schedule". Tennessee at Chattanooga, University of.
^ "Mountaineers rip Moccasins". The News and Observer. October 13, 1985. Retrieved November 17, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

v t Chattanooga Mocs football
Venues	Chamberlain Field (1908–1997) Finley Stadium (1997–present)
Bowls & rivalries
Culture & lore	Scrappy Moc "" "Chattanooga Choo Choo" Marching Mocs Chief Moccanooga
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1901 1902 1903 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 1929 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 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

1985 Southern Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. T–2 Furman $^	6	–	0	–	0	12	–	2	–	0
No. T–12 Appalachian State	6	–	1	–	0	8	–	3	–	0
Chattanooga	5	–	2	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Marshall	3	–	3	–	1	7	–	3	–	1
The Citadel	2	–	4	–	1	5	–	5	–	1
Western Carolina	2	–	4	–	1	4	–	6	–	1
VMI	1	–	4	–	1	3	–	7	–	1
Davidson	0	–	6	–	0	1	–	10	–	0
East Tennessee State	0	–	7	–	0	0	–	10	–	1

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant Rankings from NCAA Division I-AA Football Committee poll