Homecoming
Homecoming 2025! October 25– November 1, 2025
Get ready for a very spooky Homecoming as we are excited to bring together students, alumni, faculty, staff and community to showcase UTC spirit. Join us for Homecoming Week Saturday, October 25 – Saturday, November 1, 2025.
Questions? Contact Kidron Bullock in the Office of Center for Student Leadership, Engagement, and Community at [email protected] .
Check us out on social media @utchomecoming to stay up to date with homecoming activities!
Schedule of Events
Thursday, October 23, 2025
- Potions and Promo Tabling, 11AM – 2PM
Stop by Vine Street for theme Halloween drinks, homecoming swag, and more information about 2025 Homecoming Week!
Location: Vine Street
MocSync Event: https://mocsyncorgs.utc.edu/event/11703986
Sponsor: Center for Student Leadership, Engagement and Community
Event Contact: Kidron Bullock, [email protected]
Saturday, October 25, 2025
- Day of Service, 10AM – 3PM (Pre-Registration Required)
Join us for UTC Homecoming Week: Day of Service, a spirited opportunity for students, alumni, and staff to give back to our community while celebrating our campus pride! This year we will be giving back to the UTC campus and community with a variety of different service projects both on and off campus. Spots will be limited and will be first come, first serve until all project shifts are filled! *All Volunteers will receive a 2025 Homecoming Shirt*
Location: Lupton Hall First Floor
MocSync Event: https://mocsyncorgs.utc.edu/event/11725353
Sponsor: Center for Student Leadership, Engagement and Community
Event Contact: Kidron Bullock, [email protected]
Sunday, October 26, 2025
- Paint the Town Dread: Student Org Banner Painting, 1PM – 5PM (Pre-Registration Required)
Registered UTC student organizations will have the opportunity to paint a provided banner showcasing their organization and school spirit aligned with the 2025 Homecoming Theme: Halloween! This event will take place on Sunday, October 26, 2025, from 1 - 5 p.m. on Vine Street (Maclellan Gym if inclement weather). This is a competition, so come with your best CALLING ALL THE MOCSTER ideas! Banners will be displayed outside the UC starting on Monday, October 27 – Friday, October 31. Banners will be limited so register now before all spots are filled!
Location: Vine Street
MocSync Event: https://mocsyncorgs.utc.edu/event/11725411
Sponsor: Center for Student Leadership, Engagement and Community
Event Contact: Kidron Bullock, [email protected]
Monday, October 27, 2025
- Swag-O-Ween Tabling, 11AM – 2PM
Stop by our Homecoming Promo Day tables around campus from 11 AM - 2 PM. We will be passing out Halloween-themed goodies and debuting our Homecoming 2025: Calling All The MOCters swag items. *Supplies are limited and will be given out on a first come, first serve basis.
Location: Vine Street and Library Courtyard
MocSync Event: https://mocsyncorgs.utc.edu/event/11725510
Sponsor: Center for Student Leadership, Engagement and Community
Event Contact: Kidron Bullock, [email protected]
- MOCster Mash Block Party, 5PM – 8PM
Keep the spooky vibes rolling with our Homecoming Block Party & Kickoff! Food, games, music, and plenty of homecoming spirit + the announcement of the 2025 Homecoming Court! — don’t miss the start of an unforgettable week!
Location: Chamberlain Field
MocSync Event: https://mocsyncorgs.utc.edu/event/11725703
Sponsor: Center for Student Leadership, Engagement and Community
Event Contact: Kidron Bullock, [email protected]
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
- Monster Munchies, 1PM – 4PM
Calling All the Mocsters—bring your appetites for Monster Munchies! Fall themed treats from FroDaddy Donuts, Halloween candy bags, and all the homecoming fun you can handle! Featuring Halloween window painting with the UTC Library
Location: Vine Street
MocSync Event: https://mocsyncorgs.utc.edu/event/11725977
Sponsor: Center for Student Leadership, Engagement and Community and UTC Library
Event Contact: Kidron Bullock, [email protected]
- 2nd Annual Nursing Fall Festival, 5PM – 7PM
The 2nd Annual Nursing Fall Festival, sponsored by Sigma, is on Tuesday, October 28th from 5-7pm on Metro's lawn (518 Oak Street). All UTC students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to attend. Games, snacks, popcorn, raffle, caramel apples, and pumpkin painting. New this year...Costume Contest! A prize will be given to the best costume. Please RSVP so we have enough supplies and snacks for everyone: https://utk.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eKe3ABZPDnzSeLc
Location: 518 Oak Street
Event Link: https://www.utc.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/fall-festival-flyer-2025.pdf
Sponsor: Sigma Theta Tau
Event Contact: Priscilla Simms-Roberson, [email protected]
- Boo and Gold, 5:30PM – 7:30PM
Calling all ghosts, goblins, and Mocs fans to the Roundhouse for one of our favorite fall traditions!
· Doors Open at 5:30PM
· Trick or Treating on the concourse (5:30PM – 6:20PM)
· Basketball Action Begins at 6:30PM
· Autographs with your 2025-26 SoCon Preseason #1 Mocs Men and Women’s Basketball Teams
Location: McKenzie Arena
MocSync Event: https://mocsyncorgs.utc.edu/event/11742103
Sponsor: Athletics
Event Contact: Ashley Sautter, [email protected]
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
- Mocs Field Games, 10AM – 1PM
Mocs Field Games is back for another year—where UTC tradition meets Homecoming fun! Compete in a variety of events like Minute-to-Win-It challenges, brain teasers, obstacle courses, dodgeball, potato sack races, and more! Sign up as an individual or with a team. (All individual signups will be placed on a team!)
Prizes:
· Tailgate Spot at a UTC Football Game
· Branded UTC Pop-Up Tent
· 2 Zero Gravity Chairs
· Additional Mocs Swag
Don’t miss your chance to compete, win, and rep your Mocs spirit!
DEADLINE TO SIGNUP: OCTOBER 15th. Fill out the form: Mocs Field Games 2025 - University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Athletics
* If you miss the deadline, simply reach out to Ashley Sautter, [email protected], in Athletics
Location: Chamberlain Field
MocSync Event: https://mocsyncorgs.utc.edu/event/11741942
Sponsor: Athletics
Event Contact: Ashley Sautter, [email protected]
- Scrappy’s Haunted Trail, 7PM – 10PM
Dare to be scared? Join SGA and the Homecoming Team for Scrappy’s Haunted Trail! Creepy paths, haunted surprises, and chills around every corner… if you’re brave enough. Featuring sweet treats while supplies last
Location: Oak Street
MocSync Event: https://mocsyncorgs.utc.edu/event/11726034
Sponsor: Center for Student Leadership, Engagement and Community and Student Government Association
Event Contact: Kidron Bullock, [email protected]
Thursday, October 30, 2025
- Scare-aoke, 4PM – 6PM
Join RHA and HRL for a night of Halloween fun with spooky karaoke, cookie decorating, Polaroid pictures, and yard games! Sing your favorite tunes, get creative with treats, and make memories with friends.
Location: Chamberlain Field
MocSync Event: https://mocsyncorgs.utc.edu/event/11789579
Sponsor: Housing and Residence Life and RHA
Event Contact: Jason Harville, [email protected]
- GOLD Tap Party, 6PM-8PM (Alumni Event)
Calling UTC Alumni. The annual GOLD Tap Party is back for 2025 Homecoming Week. Let us celebrate you with appetizers and swag! We will also have lanes available for bowling and the Alumni Homecoming t-shirt for sale.
Event Link: https://events.blackthorn.io/en/8c2MI7X7/g/gkG0R3Vf3H/utc-alumni-2025-gold-tap-party-5a5ePQ25FQH/overview
Sponsor: C Alumni Gold
Event Contact: Jeff Cogburn, [email protected]
- Lip Sync of the Living Dead, 8PM – 10PM
Don’t miss UTC Lip Sync, the biggest campus tradition of Homecoming Week in McKenzie Arena! Come watch participating student organizations and student groups perform show-stopping, energetic, and creative Lip Sync routines with hopes of earning the top spot!
- Doors Open – 7 p.m. at Gate 1
- Event Start – 8 p.m.
- Doors Close – 8:30 p.m. (No one will be permitted into the Arena after doors closes)
This event is FREE to all enrolled UTC students, faculty, staff, and community members. UTC Students, Faculty, and staff.
McKenzie Arena enforces a clear bag policy. All non-clear bags will not be permitted. Prohibited Items Include: Weapons of any kind, Tobacco Products (including Vapes), Professional/Flash Cameras, Outside Food/Drink, Non-Clear Bags, Noise Makers, Laser Pointers, Balloons or signs
Performers List:
- Kappa Delta
- Christian Student Center
- Delta Zeta
- Alpha Delta Pi
- Sigma Kappa
- Chi Omega
- Alpha Gamma Delta
- Sigma Phi Lamda
Location: McKenzie Arena
MocSync Event: https://mocsyncorgs.utc.edu/event/11726076
Sponsor: Center for Student Leadership, Engagement and Community
Event Contact: Kidron Bullock, [email protected]
Friday, October 31, 2025
- Faculty and Staff Halloween Edition Mocs Games, 10:30AM – 11:30AM (Faculty/Staff Event)
Faculty and Staff Mocs Games: Halloween Edition
Location: Chamberlain Field
Sponsor: The Office of the Chancellor
Event Contact: Tonya Love, [email protected]
- Downtown Pep Rally, 12PM – 1PM
Join us for an electrifying downtown pep rally as we bring the Mocs spirit to the heart of Chattanooga! This Homecoming Week tradition is the ultimate chance to show your UTC pride alongside fellow students, alumni, faculty, staff, and our vibrant community. Grab your friends and join us for some spooky Mocs fun!
Location: Miller Park
Sponsor: Advancement
Event Contact: Nancy Mullins – 423-774-9503
- Library Halloween Party, 1PM – 3PM
Happy spooky season, Mocs! Everyone is invited to the Library Halloween party, except there's a problem.... Several monsters have escaped from their books! Solve puzzles and play games to uncover the clues that will return the monsters to where they belong, and you will win a prize. Also returning will be our Annual Costume Contest, where you can enter for the chance to win up to $50 in Starbucks gift cards! Check out the winners from previous years here.
Come by the 1st floor of the Library on Friday, October 31st from 1 - 3 pm to join in on the spooky fun! In addition to the games, there will be FREE snacks, candy, bookmarks, and buttons!!
Location: Chamberlain Field
MocSync Event: https://mocsyncorgs.utc.edu/event/11779836
Sponsor: UTC Library and Office of the Chancellor
Event Contact: Maddie Howell, [email protected]
Saturday, November 1, 2025
- Student Gameday Experience, 1:30PM – 3:30PM
It’s GAME TIME, Mocsters! Join us for a spook-tacular Homecoming Tailgate—food, fun, and all the spirit to get ready for the big game! Bring your crew and let’s cheer loud, Mocs! Your 2025 Homecoming King and Queen will be announced at halftime
Location: First Horizon Pavilion
MocSync Event: https://mocsyncorgs.utc.edu/event/11726141
Sponsor: Center for Student Leadership, Engagement and Community and SGA
Event Contact: Kidron Bullock, [email protected]
- Alumni Tailgate, 1:30PM-3:45PM (Alumni Event)
Location: First Horizon Pavilion
Event Registration Link: https://events.blackthorn.io/en/8c2MI7X7/g/gkG0R3Vf3H/utc-alumni-2025-mocs-vs-western-carolina-tailgate-5a5ePQ246X7/overview
Sponsor: UTC Alumni
Event Contact: Jeff Cogburn, [email protected]
- UTC vs. Western Carolina, 4PM Kickoff
UTC Homecoming Game featuring the announcement of the 2025 Homecoming King and Queen at Halftime
Location: Finley Stadium
Tickets: https://gomocs.com/
Student Ticket Information: https://gomocs.com/sports/2020/6/8/student-information.aspx
Sponsor: Athletics