Coastal Carolina·Big South

2014 — The Ten-Win Year

Coastal Carolina's 2014 season (12-2) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 12-2
Final result 12-win season
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -0.3 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W @ The Cit 31-16 W @ Nort A&T 31-30 W vs Sout Sta 30-3 W @ Flor A&M 48-3 W vs Elon 31-3 W @ Furman 37-31 W @ Presby 40-28 W vs Char Sou 43-22 W @ Gardne 38-14 W @ Charlo 59-34 W vs Monmouth 52-21 L vs Liberty 14-15 W vs Richmond 36-15 L @ Nort Sta 32-39
Defining moments
The statement

The 2014 season's largest margin: Coastal Carolina 48, Florida A&M 3. A 45-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Coastal Carolina 32, North Dakota State 39. A 7-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Ball is life"
— Coastal Carolina fanbase voice · 2014· synthesized
What it meant

2014 is a middle chapter for Coastal Carolina — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.