Wofford has a chance this week to muddle the Southern Conference football picture.
Coming off a bye, the Terriers – the first team out in the latest Football Championship Subdivision coaches’ poll – will host fifth-ranked The Citadel for their homecoming. The Bulldogs are coming off a 22-14 win over the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, which fell from fifth to 11th in the media poll and from third to eighth in the coaches’ poll.
Southern ConferenceThe Terriers are 4-2 for the season, with a 2-1 record in the SoCon and a quality nonconference win over Ohio Valley Conference member Tennessee Tech. Their league loss was a two-point defeat at 20th-ranked Samford on Oct. 1, so a win at home would put the Terriers in the Top 25 and give the SoCon four ranked teams, which would match the Big Sky and Missouri Valley conferences for the second most in the country.
The Colonial Athletic Association currently has five teams ranked.
For The Citadel, a win in its biggest remaining SoCon road test would almost solidify the conference championship, whereas a loss would put a logjam at the top with the Bulldogs, Wofford, UTC and Samford with one loss each – if UTC and Samford win home games as favorites against VMI and Western Carolina.