2013 The Citadel Bulldogs football team


The 2013 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bulldogs were led by ninth year head coach Kevin Higgins and played their home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium. They played as members of the Southern Conference, as they have since 1936. They finished the season 5–7, 4–4 in SoCon play to finish in a four way tie for fourth place.
At the end of the season, head coach Kevin Higgins resigned to become an assistant coach at Wake Forest.

Schedule

For the third year in a row, home games in September were scheduled for a 6:00 p.m. kickoff rather than the traditional 2:00 p.m. kickoff. The Bulldogs faced in-state FBS rival Clemson and Old Dominion, in its first year of transitioning to FBS. FCS teams were permitted to play twelve games in 2013 due to an extra Saturday falling between Labor Day and Thanksgiving.

Game summaries

Charleston Southern

Overall recordLast meetingResult
5–12012W 49–14

Wofford

Overall recordLast meetingResult
40–24–12013L 21–24

Western Carolina

Overall recordLast meetingResult
21–15–12012W 45–31

Old Dominion

Furman

Overall recordLast meetingResult
32–57–32012W 42–20

Appalachian State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
12–292012W 52–28

Georgia Southern

Overall recordLast meetingResult
5–172012W 23–21

Chattanooga

Overall recordLast meetingResult
18–26–22012L 10–28

Samford

Overall recordLast meetingResult
3–32012L 7–38

Elon

Overall recordLast meetingResult
7–52012W 38–24

VMI

Overall recordLast meetingResult
36–30–22012W 27–24

Clemson

Overall recordLast meetingResult
5–30–12008L 17–45