# 2015 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team

The 2015 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team represented East Tennessee State University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by first-year head coach Carl Torbush. The 2015 season was their first season since 2003, when the program was discontinued. They played their home games at Kermit Tipton Stadium, located on the campus of Science Hill High School. For the 2015 season, the Buccaneers were classified as an FCS independent school, meaning they had no athletic conference affiliation in football for the season. However, they will become football members of the Southern Conference in 2016, a league that ETSU rejoined for non-football sports in 2014 after a nine-year absence. They finished the season 2–9 with wins over Warner and Kentucky Wesleyan.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| September 3 | 7:30 pm | Kennesaw State | Kermit Tipton StadiumJohnson City, TN | | L 16–56 | 8,217 |
| September 10 | 7:30 pm | Maryville | Kermit Tipton StadiumJohnson City, TN | | L 21–28 | 7,357 |
| September 17 | 7:00 pm | at Charleston Southern | Buccaneer FieldNorth Charleston, SC | | L 7–47 | 2,331 |
| September 26 | 1:30 pm | Emory & Henry | Kermit Tipton StadiumJohnson City, TN | | L 24–27 | 8,413 |
| October 3 | 1:00 pm | Saint Francis (PA) | Kermit Tipton StadiumJohnson City, TN | | L 9–58 | 6,000 |
| October 17 | 4:00 pm | at Mercer | Moye ComplexMacon, GA | ESPN3 | L 0–52 | 10,200 |
| October 24 | 4:35 pm | at No. 21 Montana State | Bobcat StadiumBozeman, MT | | L 7–63 | 18,617 |
| October 31 | 1:00 pm | Warner | Kermit Tipton StadiumJohnson City, TN | | W 42–9 | 6,480 |
| November 7 | 12:00 pm | at Robert Morris | Joe Walton StadiumMoon Township, PA | | L 9–21 | 1,174 |
| November 14 | 1:30 pm | at Gardner–Webb | Ernest W. Spangler StadiumBoiling Springs, NC | | L 3–28 | 3,945 |
| November 21 | 1:00 pm | Kentucky Wesleyan | Kermit Tipton StadiumJohnson City, TN | | W 42–27 | 6,302 |
| HomecomingRankings from STATS Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Eastern time |||||||

## Game summaries
### Kennesaw State

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Owls | 7 | 14 | 21 | 14 | 56 |
| Buccaneers | 3 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 16 |

### Maryville College

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Scots | 7 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 28 |
| Buccaneers | 14 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 21 |

### At Charleston Southern

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| ETSU Buccaneers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| CSU Buccaneers | 0 | 34 | 6 | 7 | 47 |

### Emory & Henry

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Wasps | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 27 |
| Buccaneers | 14 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 24 |

### Saint Francis

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Red Flash | 17 | 21 | 6 | 14 | 58 |
| Buccaneers | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 9 |

### At Mercer

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Buccaneers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bears | 14 | 21 | 14 | 3 | 52 |

### At Montana State

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Buccaneers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| #21 Bobcats | 13 | 22 | 14 | 14 | 63 |

### Warner

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Royals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| Buccaneers | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 42 |

### At Robert Morris

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Buccaneers | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| Colonials | 0 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 21 |

### At Gardner-Webb

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Buccaneers | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Runnin' Bulldogs | 7 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 28 |

### Kentucky Wesleyan

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Panthers | 0 | 7 | 14 | 6 | 27 |
| Buccaneers | 7 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 42 |

## Roster and staff

Note: Most redshirt players practiced with the team during 2014 during the program's first signed class. That first signed class is redshirted while they practice entirely during the 2014 season.