At the end of the 2024 football season, Marshall had a 192–45 record at Joan C. Edwards Stadium for a winning percentage of .810.

On September 10, 2010, Marshall played the in-state rival West Virginia Mountaineers in Huntington in front of a record crowd of 41,382.

Tolley was killed on November 14, 1970, in a plane crash which killed all 75 passengers, including 37 players, five coaches, administrators, family, friends, and the Southern Airways five-person crew, as it returned to West Virginia after a game against East Carolina.

[6] Marshall athletic director, Joe McMullen, hired Jack Lengyel to be head coach in 1971.

To rebuild following the plane crash, Lengyel recruited athletes from the baseball and basketball teams.

The team went 2-9 during his first season and 5-6 during the 1976 campaign, a year in which the Thundering Herd upset 20th-ranked Miami (Ohio) on Sept. 12, 1976 at Fairfield Stadium in Huntington.

Randle mentored Marshall Athletics Hall of Famer Carl Lee during his tenure.

[9] Bob Pruett left his post as defensive coordinator at Florida to become head football coach at Marshall, where he served from 1996 to 2004.

The 1996 team included future NFL players Chad Pennington, Randy Moss, John Wade, Chris Hanson, Eric Kresser, Doug Chapman.

[11][12] Marshall beat East Carolina 64-61 a double-overtime game in the 2001 GMAC Bowl in Mobile, Alabama.

[12] Marshall lost 32–14 to Cincinnati in the 2004 Plains Capital Fort Worth Bowl at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Pruett's final game as head coach before his retirement.

[18] In 2015, Holliday led the Herd to their first victory over a Big Ten school after beating the Purdue Boilermakers en route to a 10–3 season, including a win in the 2015 St. Petersburg Bowl.

[24] During the 2023 season, Huff guided Marshall to their first win over the Virginia Tech Hokies since 1940 with a 24–17 victory in Huntington.

[26] During the 2024 season, Huff guided Marshall to its first Sun Belt East Division crown and first Sun Belt Conference Championship, becoming the first FBS school to win a title for three different conferences, by defeating Louisiana Regin' Cajuns 31-3 in Lafayette, Louisiana, as well as Marshall's first ten-win season since 2015.

Tony Gibson, the NC State defense coordinator, was hired on December 8, 2024 with a 6-year contract to replace Charles Huff.

[28] † Co-champions Marshall has been invited to play in 19 bowl games, compiling a record of 13–7 through the 2023 season.

The Thundering Herd athletic program has had a long standing relationship with Nike as their official outfitter.

The striping pattern which had been traditionally on the pants (white, black and kelly green) were removed.

[33] The football team presently also wears, at times, two alternate black helmets, one with the same logo, and the other, with a charging bull logo, both have a white stripe surrounded by two thinner black and kelly green striping pattern going across the middle of the helmet.

The rivalry resumed annual play in the 2020 season and is set to continue as Marshall joins Appalachian State in the Sun Belt Conference East Division in 2022.

An altercation at Kidd Brewer Stadium in 2021 made national news after a group of Mountaineer supporters taunted Marshall players on their way to the locker room.

Ohio leads the all-time series over Marshall, however the Thundering Herd have won 10 of 15 meetings since rejoining the FBS in 1997.

Marshall and WVU first played in 1911, but it wasn't until 2006 before the two schools from the "Mountain State" faced off annually for the Governor's Cup.

The Thundering Herd were coming back from Greenville, North Carolina after a 17–14 loss to the Pirates when their plane crashed near Ceredo, West Virginia.

East Carolina was supposed to host Marshall at Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium in Greenville, NC on September 5, 2020, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.