The 2015 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team represented

Coastal Carolina University Coastal Carolina University (CCU or Coastal) is a public university in Conway, South Carolina. Founded in 1954 as Coastal Carolina Junior College, and later joining the University of South Carolina System as USC Coastal Carolina, it became an in ...

in the

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. They were led by fourth-year head coach

Joe Moglia Joseph Hugh Moglia (born April 1, 1949) is an American businessman and former football coach. He served as head football coach at Coastal Carolina University from 2012 to 2016 and again in 2018 after spending the 2017 season on medical leave. Du ...

and played their home games at

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. They were in their final season as a member of the

Big South Conference The Big South Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I. Originally a non-football conference, the Big South began sponsoring football in 2002 as part of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Th ...

. They finished the season 9–3, 4–2 in Big South play to finish in second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost in the first round to The Citadel. The Chanticleers joined the

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in July 2016, initially as a full but non-football member. The football team will begin a transition to the

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(FBS), joining Sun Belt football in 2017 and gaining full FBS membership and bowl eligibility in 2018.

Schedule

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Schedule

Game summaries

At Furman

At South Carolina State

Western Illinois

Bryant

Alabama A&M

Presbyterian

At Monmouth

At Charleston Southern

Gardner–Webb

Kennesaw State

At Liberty

FCS Playoffs

First Round–The Citadel

Ranking movements

References

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Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football seasons

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