[5] Following the recommendations of CSA, the university facilitated a student referendum in September 2007 to gauge support for a fee increase.

[10] With a goal of $15 million USD, the campaign is meant to help fund coaches salaries, player scholarships, and construction of practice fields.

[11] Later that month it was announced that Coker along with Tulsa's co-defensive coordinator Paul Randolph and Mel Tjeerdsma, head coach from Northwest Missouri State were the finalists for the position.

[12] On March 5, 2009, the San Antonio Express-News reported that Larry Coker, who had won the 2001 national championship as head coach of the Hurricanes, had earned the position.

[14] On April 22, 2009, Coker announced the addition of Mike Menefee, Eric Roark, and David Ross to the roster as assistant football coaches.

[18] However, in late January 2010, Hickey stated that the football program would attempt to join the Division I FBS subdivision by 2014 instead, citing an overall disappointment for previous plans.

[22] In July 2010, the Northside Independent School District announced a three-year agreement that allowed UTSA to use Dub Farris Athletic Complex for practice.

[28] In 2011, UTSA started its inaugural season playing its first-ever game against Northeastern State on September 3, 2011, at the Alamodome.

With attendance of 56,743, UTSA set a record for the highest-attended game for an NCAA Division I FBS start-up program.

UTSA closed out its season with a 38–31 win over rival Texas State before an announced crowd of 39,032 at the Alamodome.

In April 2012, it was announced that UTSA would join Conference USA on July 1, 2013, following its approval from the University of Texas System Board of Regents to allow the school to accept an invitation, negotiate and finalize terms with the league.

For the season, despite being picked last in the preseason media poll, UTSA finished at 7–5 overall, with a 6–2 record in conference, and averaged 29,214 in attendance.

Wilson was also responsible for recruiting Frank Harris, a San Antonio-area quarterback who would become a city icon in his seven-year tenure with the program and lead the Roadrunners to their first two conference titles.

UTSA would ultimately finish 6–5 for the season (one game against the Houston Cougars was canceled due to the aftereffects of Hurricane Harvey).

[37] In the 2018 season, UTSA struggled through its non-conference schedule, going 1–3 (their lone win being against rival Texas State).

The "Triangle of Toughness" grew to be more than just representing San Antonio (through the city's area code), but the identity of the program.

Players and coaches are expected to embody all traits of the triangle: Selflessness, perfect effort, integrity, passion and toughness.

[41] Traylor also became the first head coach in program history to start his career with three wins[42] after beating MTSU on September 25, 2020.

[45] UTSA was controversially left out of the initial College Football Playoff ranking for the 2021 season and became the second undefeated team to be snubbed in history.

In 2016, UTSA tied an NCAA record for fastest program to reach a bowl game (as measured from the start of varsity play), doing so in their sixth season.

North Texas needed to win the game to clinch the Conference USA West division.

In their first meeting in The American Conference play UTSA won their first game in Denton in ten years.