2000 Chattanooga Mocs football team

2000 Southern Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant; Rankings from The Sports Network I-AA Poll

2000 Chattanooga Mocs football
2000 Chattanooga Mocs football
Conference	Southern Conference
2000 record	5–6 (3–5 SoCon)
Head coach	Donnie Kirkpatrick (1st season);
Offensive coordinator	Donnie Kirkpatrick (3rd season)
Defensive coordinator	Will Holthouser (1st season)
Captain	Billy Hutchins, Chris Sanders, Brent Tinker
Home stadium	Finley Stadium; (capacity: 20,668)
	Seasons ← 1999 2001 →

The 2000 Chattanooga Mocs football team represented the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) in the 2000 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Mocs were led by first-year head coach Donnie Kirkpatrick and played their home games at Finley Stadium. They finished the season 5–6 overall and 3–5 in SoCon play to tied for sixth place.^[1]

Schedule[]

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
August 31	7:00 pm	Samford*	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	W 23–6	13,186
September 7	7:00 pm	at UAB*	Legion Field Birmingham, AL	L 15–20	18,000
September 16	1:30 pm	Mississippi Valley State*	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	W 72–17	8,316
September 23	7:00 pm	No. 2 Georgia Southern	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	L 10–31	15,072
September 30	1:30 pm	at Wofford	Gibbs Stadium Spartanburg, SC	L 33–41	7,879
October 14	7:00 pm	VMI	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	W 27–14	8,842
October 21	1:00 pm	at Western Carolina	Whitmire Stadium Cullowhee, NC	L 36–41	8,312
October 28	1:30 pm	No. 6 Appalachian State	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	W 30–27	4,012	^[2]
November 4	2:00 pm	at The Citadel	Johnson Hagood Stadium Charleston, SC	W 20–13	15,442
November 11	1:30 pm	East Tennessee State	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	L 22–24	6,432
November 18	2:00 pm	at No. 6 Furman	Paladin Stadium Greenville, SC	L 44–45 ^OT	8,573
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from The Sports Network Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

^ "2000 Football Schedule". Tennessee at Chattanooga, University of.
^ "Late field goal sinks Appalachian". The Charlotte Observer. October 29, 2000. Retrieved November 30, 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

2000 Southern Conference football standings
v t	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
No. 1 Georgia Southern $^		7	–	1		13	–	2
No. 4 Appalachian State ^		6	–	2		10	–	4
No. 10 Furman ^		6	–	2		9	–	3
No. 23 Wofford		5	–	3		7	–	4
East Tennessee State		4	–	4		6	–	5
Chattanooga		3	–	5		5	–	6
Western Carolina		3	–	5		4	–	7
The Citadel		1	–	7		2	–	9
VMI		1	–	7		2	–	9

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant Rankings from The Sports Network I-AA Poll