| Marshall Thundering Herd football | |||
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| First season | 1895 | ||
| Athletic director | Christian Spears | ||
| Head coach | Charles Huff 3rd season, 22–17 (.564) | ||
| Stadium | Joan C. Edwards Stadium (capacity: 30,475) | ||
| Field | James F. Edwards Field | ||
| Field surface | AstroTurf | ||
| Location | Huntington, West Virginia | ||
| Conference | Sun Belt Conference | ||
| Division | East | ||
| Past conferences | WVIAC (1925–1932) Buckeye (1933–1938) OVC (1948–1951) MAC (1954–1968, 1997–2004) SoCon (1977–1996) C-USA (2005–2021) | ||
| All-time record | 628–571–47 [1] (.523) | ||
| Bowl record | 13–7 (.650) | ||
| Claimed national titles | Div. I FCS: 2 (1992, 1996)[2] | ||
| Conference titles | 13 | ||
| Division titles | 9 | ||
| Rivalries | App State (rivalry) Ohio (rivalry) East Carolina (rivalry) West Virginia (rivalry) | ||
| Consensus All-Americans | 1 | ||
| Colors | Kelly green and white[3] | ||
| Fight song | Sons of Marshall | ||
| Mascot | Marco the Bison | ||
| Marching band | Marching Thunder | ||
| Outfitter | Nike | ||
| Website | HerdZone.com | ||
The Marshall Thundering Herd football team is an intercollegiate varsity sports program of Marshall University. The team represents the university as a member of the Sun Belt Conference East Division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, playing at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level.
Marshall plays at Joan C. Edwards Stadium, which seats 38,227[4] and is expandable to 55,000. At the end of the 2022 football season, Marshall had a 181–44 record at Joan C. Edwards Stadium for a winning percentage of .804. The stadium opened in 1991 as Marshall University Stadium with a crowd of 33,116 for a 24–23 win over New Hampshire. On September 10, 2010, Marshall played the in-state rival West Virginia Mountaineers in Huntington in front of a record crowd of 41,382. Joan C. Edwards Stadium is one of two Division I stadiums named for a woman. The playing field is named James F. Edwards Field after Joan Edwards' husband, who was a businessman and philanthropist.
- ^ NCAA Statistics https://stats.ncaa.org/teams/history?utf8=✓&org_id=388&sport_code=MFB&commit=Search
- ^ College Football Data Warehouse. "Marshall's National Championship". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
- ^ Marshall University Brand Guidelines (PDF). Retrieved December 18, 2023.
- ^ "Herd Notebook: Upstairs, Jerseys, Turf". Herdzone. Retrieved 2013-08-25.