The Wofford Terriers football team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as members of the Southern Conference (SoCon). Wofford’s first football team was fielded in 1889. Wofford moved from Division II to join the Division I-AA Southern Conference in the 1996–97 season. Since then, Wofford has won 7 Southern Conference Championships, and received bids to the FCS Playoffs 10 times with the most recent bid coming in 2019. Wofford’s best finish since moving from Division II was a trip to the National Semi-finals at Delaware in 2003. In recent years, Wofford’s football team has finished near the top in the country in APR. Wofford has won seven conference championships, three outright and four shared. They also have appeared in the Division II playoffs two times in 1990 and 1991. The Terriers appeared in the NAIA playoffs one time in 1970.