2001 Chattanooga Mocs football team

2001 Southern Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant; Rankings from The Sports Network I-AA Poll

2001 Chattanooga Mocs football
2001 Chattanooga Mocs football
Conference	Southern Conference
2001 record	3–8 (1–7 SoCon)
Head coach	Donnie Kirkpatrick (2nd season);
Offensive coordinator	Donnie Kirkpatrick (4th season)
Defensive coordinator	Will Holthouser (2nd season)
Home stadium	Finley Stadium; (Capacity: 20,668)
	Seasons ← 2000 2002 →

The 2001 Chattanooga Mocs football team represented the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) in the 2001 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Mocs were led by second-year head coach Donnie Kirkpatrick and played their home games at Finley Stadium. They finished the season 3–8 overall and 1–7 in SoConConference play to tie for eighth place.^[1]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
August 30	at Samford*	Seibert Stadium Homewood, AL	W 28–14	6,403
September 8	at Memphis*	Liberty Bowl Memphis, TN	L 10–43	24,053
September 22	at No. 1 Georgia Southern	Paulson Stadium Statesboro, GA	L 7–70	14,656
September 29	Wofford	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	W 29–26	7,815
October 13	at VMI	Alumni Memorial Field Lexington, VA	L 16–19 ^OT	7,622
October 18	Western Carolina	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	L 3–21	4,821
October 27	at No. 12 Appalachian State	Kidd Brewer Stadium Boone, NC	L 14–51	15,337	^[2]
November 3	The Citadel	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	L 17–20 ^OT	8,495
November 10	at East Tennessee State	Memorial Center Johnson City, TN	L 10–32	8,748
November 17	Furman	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	L 10–42	6,366
November 24	Kentucky State*	Finley Stadium Chattanooga, TN	W 73–0	5,834
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from The Sports Network Poll released prior to the game

^ "2001 Football Game Results". Tennessee at Chattanooga, University of.
^ "Balanced offense carries ASU". The Charlotte Observer. October 28, 2001. Retrieved December 1, 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

2001 Southern Conference football standings
v t	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
No. 2 Furman $^		7	–	1		12	–	3
No. 3 Georgia Southern $^		7	–	1		12	–	2
No. 6 Appalachian State ^		6	–	2		9	–	4
Western Carolina		5	–	3		7	–	4
East Tennessee State		4	–	4		6	–	5
Wofford		3	–	5		4	–	7
The Citadel		2	–	6		3	–	7
Chattanooga		1	–	7		3	–	8
VMI		1	–	7		1	–	10

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