The 2007 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team represented Western Kentucky University (WKU) during the 2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team's head coach was David Elson. It was the team's first and only season as an NCAA Division I FCS independent team as they made the transition from the Gateway Conference2019 MVC Football Records, retrieved 30 April 2020 of Division I-AA (now FCS) to the Sun Belt Conference of the FBS.WKU's move to I-A tops 2006 stories, By OJ STAPLETON and MICHEAL COMPTON, The Daily News, Jan 1, 2007, retrieved 30 April 2020 The Hilltoppers played their home games at Houchens Industries–L. T. Smith Stadium in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Schedule
Game summaries At Florida
West Virginia Tech
Eastern Kentucky
At Middle Tennessee State
At Bowling Green
At Ball State
At Indiana State
North Carolina Central
At Chattanooga
Troy
Morehead State
At North Texas
Coaching staff NamePositionAlma materDavid Elson Head coach Butler 1994 Mike Chism Recruiting Coordinator/tight ends Kentucky 1990 Mike Dietzel Special teams Coordinator/Outside Linebackers Otterbein 1985 Stuart Holt Running backs North Carolina 1995 Cary Marquell Inside Linebackers Ball State 1996Eric Mathies Defensive line Murray State 1998T.J. Weist Assistant head coach/Wide Receivers/passing game Coordinator Alabama 1988 Kevin Wright Offensive coordinator/quarterbacks WKU 1987Walter Wells Running Game Coordinator/offensive line Belmont 1993Andrew KoonGraduate assistant WKU 2006Erik LoseyGraduate assistant WKU 2006Jamison Link Student assistantNick Uhlenhopp Director of operations Graceland 2002Mark Harris Dir. of equipment and facility operationsBill Edwards Head athletic trainer WKU 1974Chris Zuccaro Video coordinator Ole Miss 2004Reference:2007 Western Kentucky Football Media Guide, pp. 58–72
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