2010 South Carolina State Bulldogs football team

The 2010 South Carolina State Bulldogs football team represented South Carolina State University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was led by Oliver Pough in his ninth year as head coach and played its home games at Oliver C. Dawson Stadium. It finished the regular season with a 9–2 record overall and a 7–1 record in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, making them conference co-champions alongside Bethune–Cookman. The team qualified for the playoffs, in which it was eliminated in the first round by Georgia Southern.^[1]

2010 South Carolina State Bulldogs football
MEAC co-champion
FCS Playoffs First Round, L 16–41 vs. Georgia Southern
Conference	Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Ranking
Sports Network	No. 16
FCS Coaches	No. 17
Record	9–3 (7–1 MEAC)
Head coach	Oliver Pough (9th season)
Home stadium	Oliver C. Dawson Stadium
Seasons ← 2009 2011 →

2010 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football standings

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
No. 15 Bethune–Cookman +^		7	–	1					10	–	2
No. 16 South Carolina State +^		7	–	1					9	–	3
Florida A&M +		7	–	1					8	–	3
Hampton		5	–	3					6	–	5
Norfolk State		4	–	4					6	–	5
Morgan State		3	–	5					4	–	7
Delaware State		2	–	6					3	–	8
North Carolina A&T		1	–	7					1	–	10
Howard		0	–	8					1	–	10
North Carolina Central *		0	–	0					3	–	8
Savannah State *		0	–	0					1	–	10
+ – Conference co-champions ^ – FCS playoff participant * Not eligible for conference championship Rankings from The Sports Network poll

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 4	1:00 pm	at No. 16 (FBS) Georgia Tech*	No. 11	Bobby Dodd Stadium Atlanta, GA	ESPN3	L 10–41	51,668[2]
September 11	6:00 pm	Mississippi Valley State*	No. 15	Oliver C. Dawson Stadium Orangeburg, SC		W 44–0	12,224	[3]
September 18	2:00 pm	at Benedict*	No. 14	Charlie W. Johnson Stadium Columbia, SC		W 61–20	1,334
October 2	6:00 pm	at Florida A&M	No. 9	Bragg Memorial Stadium Tallahassee, FL		W 19–0	14,052
October 9	2:00 pm	Norfolk State	No. 9	Oliver C. Dawson Stadium Orangeburg, SC		W 34–13	21,971
October 16	1:30 pm	No. 23 Bethune–Cookman	No. 10	Oliver C. Dawson Stadium Orangeburg, SC		L 0–14	10,077
October 23	1:30 pm	Hampton	No. 18	Oliver C. Dawson Stadium Orangeburg, SC	ESPNU	W 10–7	22,010
October 30	1:00 pm	at Delaware State	No. 17	Alumni Stadium Dover, DE		W 38–21	2,130
November 6	1:30 pm	Howard	No. 16	Oliver C. Dawson Stadium Orangeburg, SC		W 54–14	8,007
November 11	7:30 pm	at Morgan State	No. 15	Hughes Stadium Baltimore, MD		W 32–10	1,054
November 20	1:30 pm	at North Carolina A&T	No. 12	Aggie Stadium Greensboro, NC (Rivalry)		W 48–3	10,348
November 27	2:00 pm	at No. 22 Georgia Southern*	No. 11	Paulson Stadium Statesboro, GA (FCS Playoffs First Round)	NCAA–AA	L 16–41	11,577
*Non-conference game Rankings from The Sports Network Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

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