The 2006 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team represented Coastal Carolina University in the 2006 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Chanticleers were led by fourth-year head coach David Bennett and played their home games at Brooks Stadium. Coastal Carolina competed as a member of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 9–3 with a 4–0 record in conference play, winning their second outright Big South championship and their first berth in the FCS playoffs.
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Big South champion | |
FCS Playoffs First Round, L 28–45 vs. Appalachian State | |
| Conference | Big South Conference |
| Record | 9–3 (4–0 Big South) |
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| Home stadium | Brooks Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 14 Coastal Carolina $^ | 4 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charleston Southern | 2 | – | 2 | 9 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gardner–Webb | 2 | – | 2 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liberty | 2 | – | 2 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| VMI | 0 | – | 4 | 1 | – | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | ||
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| September 2 | 7:00 p.m. | Elon* | No. 25 | L 20–23 | 8,169 | |||
| September 9 | 7:00 p.m. | at Wofford* | W 41–38 | 6,493 | ||||
| September 16 | 7:00 p.m. | at No. 24 Georgia Southern* | L 21–38 | 17,303 | ||||
| September 23 | 12:30 p.m. | South Carolina State* |
| W 33–14 | 9,287 | |||
| September 30 | 6:00 p.m. | at Winston-Salem State* | W 31–12 | 4,701 | ||||
| October 7 | 7:00 p.m. | No. 3 Furman* |
| W 29–27 | 10,013 | |||
| October 14 | 1:00 p.m. | at VMI | W 31–27 | 7,810 | ||||
| October 28 | 12:30 p.m. | Liberty | No. 22 |
| W 28–26 | 6,964 | ||
| November 4 | 12:30 p.m. | Savannah State* | No. 17 |
| W 66–6 | 6,703 | ||
| November 11 | 1:30 p.m. | at Gardner–Webb | No. 16 | W 52–24 | 3,250 | |||
| November 18 | 1:30 p.m. | Charleston Southern | No. 13 |
| W 31–17 | 7,669 | ||
| November 25 | 3:30 p.m. | at No. 1 Appalachian State* | No. 13 | L 28–45 | 16,223 | |||
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