Middle Tennessee·Conference USA

2014 — The 2014 Season

Middle Tennessee's 2014 season (6-6) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 6-6
Final result No bowl
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -4.7 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Sava Sta 61-7 L @ Minnes 24-35 W vs West Ken 50-47 L @ Memphis 17-36 W @ Old Dom 41-28 W vs Sout Mis 37-31 L @ Marshall 24-49 W vs UAB 34-22 L vs BYU 7-27 L @ Flor Int 28-38 W vs Flor Atl 35-34 L @ UTEP 21-24

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2014.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2014 season's largest margin: Middle Tennessee 61, Savannah State 7. A 54-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Middle Tennessee 24, Marshall 49. A 25-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Raider Up"
— Middle Tennessee fanbase voice · 2014· synthesized
What it meant

2014 is a middle chapter for Middle Tennessee — 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.