2023 Gardner–Webb Runnin' Bulldogs football team

The Runnin' Bulldogs finished the 2022 season with an overall record of 7–6 and a mark of 5–0 in conference play to place in first in the Big South. They also reached three milestones for the program in the 2022 season. For the first time since 2003, Gardner-Webb won the Big South championship. With it, they clinched an automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Football Championship, their first playoff appearance as an FCS team and first as a program since the 1992 NAIA playoffs.[1] Their best season in 19 years would be further added on with a win over Eastern Kentucky in the first round of the playoffs, their first FCS playoff win in program history. They would ultimately fall to William & Mary in the second round.

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result
September 2		at Appalachian State*	Kidd Brewer Stadium Boone, NC
September 9	6:00 p.m.	Elon*	Ernest W. Spangler Stadium Boiling Springs, NC	ESPN+
September 16		at Tennessee State*	Hale Stadium Nashville, TN	ESPN+
September 23		at East Carolina*	Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium Greenville, NC
October 7		Robert Morris	Ernest W. Spangler Stadium Boiling Springs, NC	ESPN+
October 14		at Austin Peay*	Fortera Stadium Clarksville, TN	ESPN+
October 21		Eastern Kentucky*	Ernest W. Spangler Stadium Boiling Springs, NC	ESPN+
October 28		UT Martin*	Ernest W. Spangler Stadium Boiling Springs, NC	ESPN+
November 4		at Bryant	Beirne Stadium Smithfield, RI	ESPN+
November 11		at Tennessee Tech*	Tucker Stadium Cookeville, TN	ESPN+
November 18		Charleston Southern	Ernest W. Spangler Stadium Boiling Springs, NC	ESPN+
*Non-conference game Homecoming All times are in Eastern time

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