2013 Georgia Southern Eagles football team
| 2013 Georgia Southern Eagles football | |
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| Conference | Southern Conference |
| 2013 record | 5–4, 2 wins vacated (4–4 SoCon) |
| Head coach | Jeff Monken (4th season) |
| Offensive coordinator | Brent Davis (4th season) |
| Offensive scheme | Triple option |
| Co-defensive coordinator | Jack Curtis |
| Co-defensive coordinator | Kevin Corless |
| Home stadium |
Paulson Stadium (Capacity: 18,000) |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #23 Chattanooga + | 6 | – | 2 | 8 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #19 Samford +^ | 6 | – | 2 | 8 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #22 Furman +^ | 6 | – | 2 | 8 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgia Southern* | 4 | – | 4 | 7 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wofford | 4 | – | 4 | 5 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Citadel | 4 | – | 4 | 5 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appalachian State* | 4 | – | 4 | 4 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elon | 1 | – | 7 | 2 | – | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Western Carolina | 1 | – | 7 | 2 | – | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2013 Georgia Southern Eagles football team represented Georgia Southern University in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Jeff Monken and played their home games at Paulson Stadium. They were a member of the Southern Conference. This was Georgia Southern's final year in the Southern Conference and the FCS. They joined the FBS and the Sun Belt Conference for the 2014 season. They finished the season 7–4, 4–4 in SoCon play to finish in a four-way tie for fourth place.
In the final game of the season, against the Florida Gators, the Eagles upset the FBS Gators, 26–20, without completing a pass. The win marked the first time a FCS team defeated the Gators.[1]
At the end of the season, head coach Jeff Monken resigned to become the head coach at Army.
On July 22, 2016, the university announced that it was ordered by the NCAA to vacate two wins from the 2013 season and one win from the 2014 season, due to academically ineligible student-athletes participating in those games. The wins affected in the 2013 season were against the Savannah State Tigers and St. Francis Red Flash.[2]
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | ||
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| August 31 | 6:00 PM | Savannah State* | No. 9 | Paulson Stadium • Statesboro, GA | W 77–9 (vacated) | 16,528 | |||
| September 7 | 6:00 PM | Saint Francis (PA)* | No. 10 | Paulson Stadium • Statesboro, GA | GSAA | W 59–17 (vacated) | 13,758 | ||
| September 14 | 7:00 PM | at No. 16 Wofford | No. 10 | Gibbs Stadium • Spartanburg, SC | GSAA | L 20–30 | 8,153 | ||
| September 28 | 6:00 PM | Chattanooga | No. 15 | Paulson Stadium • Statesboro, GA | GSAA | W 23–21 | 16,827 | ||
| October 5 | 3:00 PM | at Samford | No. 16 | Seibert Stadium • Homewood, AL | L 34–44 | 7,896 | |||
| October 12 | 1:00 PM | The Citadel | No. 22 | Paulson Stadium • Statesboro, GA | GSAA | W 28–21 | 16,128 | ||
| October 26 | 3:30 PM | at Appalachian State | No. 24 | Kidd Brewer Stadium • Boone, NC (Rivalry) | ESPN3 | L 14–38 | 23,901 | ||
| November 2 | 2:00 PM | Furman | Paulson Stadium • Statesboro, GA | GSAA | L 14–16 | 12,220 | |||
| November 9 | 2:00 PM | Western Carolina |
Paulson Stadium • Statesboro, GA | GSAA | W 35–19 | 13,507 | |||
| November 16 | 3:00 PM | at Elon | Rhodes Stadium • Elon, NC | W 38–20 | 6,104 | ||||
| November 23 | 2:00 PM | at Florida* | Ben Hill Griffin Stadium • Gainesville, FL | PPV | W 26–20 | 82,459 | |||
| *Non-conference game. | |||||||||
- Source: Schedule
Ranking movements
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| Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Final | ||||||
| Sports Network | 9 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 22 | 23 | 24 | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | ||||||
| Coaches | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
Ineligible for FCS Coaches Poll[3]
References
- ↑ Long, Mark (November 23, 2013). "Georgia Southern beats Florida in Swamp without completing a pass". Kingsport Times-News. Retrieved November 27, 2013.
- ↑ "Georgia Southern Football To Vacate Three Games From 2013-14 Seasons". Georgia Southern Eagles. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
- ↑ http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/08/jacksonville_state_samford_ala.html