2024-25 Tennessee Tech Football News
LEXINGTON, Ky. – As the Tennessee Tech football team starts working toward the 2025 season, fans can prepare for a late-season date as the game times and broadcast destination for the Golden Eagles’ November 15 meeting with the Kentucky Wildcats at Kroger Field. The game will be played at 1:30 p.m. Eastern/12:30 p.m. Central that day, while the game will be carried on ESPN+ and SEC Network+. The game times and television assignments were revealed Wednesday.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- With seven home games set for the 2025 Tennessee Tech football slate at Tucker Stadium, fans can adjust their schedules accordingly as start times have been announced for the home contests.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – To figure out where the Tennessee Tech football team is in April as the team held its annual Purple vs. Gold Spring Game, one just has to go back to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoff selection show. As the team saw the rest of the field announced, including three Big South-Ohio Valley Conference football teams, it stuck in the craw. The Golden Eagles, who defeated playoff picks UT Martin and Tennessee State to win the Sergeant York Trophy, were left out. It became a mission. “Our theme this year coming out of missing the playoffs by one game is ‘Run It Back,’” Wilder said. “You’ll see it out here on shirts and that’s our theme because of the bitter taste we had. Keeping this team together will add more value to the roster in April and May through the portal. I’m really excited about our high school recruiting here in-state and put us in good position heading into camp.”
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – It’ll be an exciting Saturday at Tucker Stadium as fans will get a chance to preview the 2025 Tennessee Tech Football team as the Golden Eagles host their annual Spring Game. The game is open to the public as Tech’s offensive and defensive units square off on the turf, putting everything they’ve learned so far in spring practice together in a showcase of the Golden Eagles’ returning standouts and new faces.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The last time Tennessee Tech hosted Cumberland, Tucker Stadium was rocking with one of the largest crowds in program history as two devoted fanbases filled the grandstands supporting their two teams. While the grandstands – currently in the early stages of a West stadium rebuild from the ground up – aren’t as spacious as they were back in 2013, there’s no question that the fans from the Lebanon university and Tech’s own legion of supporters will fill the house as the two teams meet up to open the 2025 football season.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – It was a great start for the Tennessee Tech football team as the Golden Eagles opened the 2025 spring practices on Tuesday at Tucker Stadium. With the team looking to start making a run for another Ohio Valley Conference championship, the momentum started building with Tuesday’s first session. “We haven’t been out here since November 21,” said Tech head coach Bobby Wilder. “It’s like Christmas when you’re back out here. When you’re a kid, you see the tree and all of the presents.”
COOKEVILLE – With National Signing Day underway, the Tennessee Tech football team is already at work with a tremendous group of transfers that the staff has brought in to help lead the Golden Eagles to another Ohio Valley Conference-Big South championship. With the concept already proven that the Golden Eagles are championship-caliber, the next step is to get the program back into the Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs and bring Tech Football’s first National Championship.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Daniel Rickert and Tim Coutras put up a lot of highlight reel plays over the course of the 2024 campaign. It’s only fitting that the defensive duo also picked up two of Tennessee Tech’s top football honors as Rickert was named the winner of the Robert Hill Johnson Award and Coutras the Tony Stone Bumble Bee DB Award. Among the team’s other year-end awards, D.J. Linkins was named the winner of the Bill Dupes Inspiration Award, Jordan Yates the winner of the Sonny Allen Leadership Award, Aidan Littles the winner of the Josh Poplar Tech Pride Award, Donnell Wilson the winner of the Frank Omiyale Block Award, Wyatt Watson the winner of the Unsung Hero Award and Hunter Barnhart the Academic Award.
COOKEVILLE -- Fans looking to circle the calendar for Tennessee Tech's 2025 Homecoming will be able to mark down November 1 as it was announced Wednesday that the Golden Eagles' home Ohio Valley Conference/Big South Football Association contest against Gardner-Webb will be the date. Game times have not been finalized yet and those will be provided when available.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – In just a short time, Chase Mummau has proven himself to be a great defensive mind and a young talent in the profession. Now, with an Ohio Valley Conference-Big South Conference Football Association title under his belt, Mummau will get an opportunity to help lead the Tennessee Tech football team to new heights as Golden Eagle head football coach Bobby Wilder has promoted Mummau to the defensive coordinator position. The team announced the move on Friday.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The Ohio Valley Conference-Big South Football Association announced its 2025 slate on Tuesday as all nine teams will play an eight-game conference schedule between weeks 5 and 13. Tennessee Tech will open its title defense on Saturday, Sept. 27 as the Golden Eagles travel to fellow co-champ Tennessee State. The following week, on October 4, Tech will host Western Illinois.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – With the 2024 campaign in the books, the Football Championship Subdivision Athletic Directors Association announced its 54-man Academic All-Star Team on Tuesday. Tennessee Tech was among the schools with a player on the roster as tight end Hunter Barnhart was selected to the team. Barnhart, a graduate with a 3.84 grade point average, finished the season with six catches for 65 yards and a touchdown, playing in all 12 games in the 2024 campaign. It is his second selection to the FCS ADA Academic All-Star Team.
COOKEVILLE – The postseason football awards season continued on Friday as PhilSteele.com announced its annual conference and All-America teams. The Tennessee Tech football team finished with 16 total players on the squads.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – As various groups release their postseason football honors, one of Tennessee Tech’s own was named as one of the top freshman players of the 2024 campaign as long snapper Turner McLaughlin was selected to Stats Perform’s FCS Freshman All-America team on Wednesday. He was one of three picks in the Big South-Ohio Valley Conference Football Association as he was joined by Southeast Missouri offensive lineman Carter Guillaume and Tennessee State linebacker Sanders Ellis.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Nashville Sports Council and the Ohio Valley Conference, along with partners Vanderbilt University and the City of Nashville, have been awarded the 2026 and 2027 Division I Football Championship games. Nashville becomes the 11th city to host the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Championship since 1978. The games will be played at FirstBank Stadium on the campus of Vanderbilt University on January 5, 2026 and January 4, 2027.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – With the regular season complete and post-season accolades continuing to file in, the Big South-Ohio Valley Conference announced its All-Academic Team on Tuesday with defensive back Tim Coutras standing as Tennessee Tech’s representative on the roster. Each institution nominated one individual – with at least a 3.0 cumulative grade point average – for inclusion for the All-Academic Team. To be considered for Scholar-Athlete of the Year, which was voted on by the combined conferences’ football communications contacts, the nominees had to have at least a 3.30 GPA.
