2017 Midwestern State Mustangs football team
| 2017 Midwestern State Mustangs football | |
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Lone Star Conference champion | |
NCAA Division II Playoffs Second Round, L 21–63 vs. Minnesota State | |
| Conference | Lone Star Conference |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | No. 5 |
| 2017 record | 10–1 (8–0 LSC) |
| Head coach | Bill Maskill (16th season) |
| Offensive coordinator | Adam Austin (5th season) |
| Defensive coordinator | Rich Renner (10th season) |
| Home stadium |
Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 14,500) |
| 2017 Lone Star Conference football standings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #11 Midwestern State | 8 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #1 Texas A&M–Commerce | 7 | – | 1 | 14 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eastern New Mexico | 6 | – | 2 | 8 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tarleton State | 4 | – | 4 | 6 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Angelo State | 4 | – | 4 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Western New Mexico | 3 | – | 5 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas A&M–Kingsville | 2 | – | 6 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| West Texas A&M | 1 | – | 7 | 3 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas–Permian Basin | 1 | – | 7 | 2 | – | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As of October 15, 2018; Rankings from AFCA Poll | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 2017 Midwestern State Mustangs football team represented Midwestern State University in the 2017 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by head coach Bill Maskill, who is in his 16th season at Midwestern State. The Mustangs played their home games at Memorial Stadium and were members of the Lone Star Conference.
Schedule
Midwestern State announced its 2017 football schedule on January 26, 2017. The schedule consists of six home and four away games in the regular season. The Mustangs will host LSC foes Tarleton State, Texas A&M-Commerce, Texas A&M-Kingsville, West Texas A&M, and Western New Mexico and will travel to Angelo State, Eastern New Mexico, and Texas-Permian Basin.[1]
The Mustangs will host one of the two non-conference games against Quincy from the Great Lakes Valley Conference and will travel to West Florida from the Gulf South Conference.
| Date | Time | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | ||
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| August 31 | 7:00 p.m | Quincy* | No. 24 | Memorial Stadium • Wichita Falls, TX | W 53–6 | 7,077 | |||
| September 9 | 6:00 p.m. | at West Florida* | No. 16 | Blue Wahoos Stadium • Pensacola, FL | Canceled[a] | ||||
| September 16 | 7:00 p.m. | Texas A&M-Kingsville | No. 13 | Memorial Stadium • Wichita Falls, TX | W 35–13 | 7,613 | |||
| September 30 | 7:00 p.m. | Western New Mexico | No. 12 | Memorial Stadium • Wichita Falls, TX | W 35–24 | 8,737 | |||
| October 7 | 7:00 p.m. | No. 2 Texas A&M-Commerce | No. 10 | Memorial Stadium • Wichita Falls, TX | W 47–42 | 9,201 | |||
| October 14 | 6:00 p.m. | at Angelo State | No. 6 | LeGrand Stadium • San Angelo, TX | W 41–27 | 2,164 | |||
| October 21 | 8:00 p.m. | West Texas A&M | No. 5 | Memorial Stadium • Wichita Falls, TX | W 45–3 | 8,020 | |||
| October 28 | 6:00 p.m. | at Texas–Permian Basin | No. 5 | Ratliff Stadium • Odessa, TX | W 66–8 | 1,154 | |||
| November 4 | 2:00 p.m. | Tarleton State | No. 4 | Memorial Stadium • Wichita Falls, TX | W 45–42 OT | 8,111 | |||
| November 11 | 8:00 p.m. | at Eastern New Mexico | No. 4 | Greyhound Stadium • Portales, NM | W 56–43 | 2,032 | |||
| NCAA Division II Playoffs | |||||||||
| November 18 | 1:00 p.m. | at No. 18 Sioux Falls | No. 5 | Memorial Stadium • Wichita Falls, TX (Division II Playoffs First Round) | W 24–20 | 7,502 | |||
| November 25 | 12:00 p.m. | at No. 1 Minnesota State | No. 5 | Blakeslee Stadium • Mankato, MN (Division II Playoffs Second Round) | L 21–63 | 1,358 | |||
*Non-conference game.  | |||||||||
- ^[a] The game between Midwestern State and West Florida was cancelled in advance of the arrival of Hurricane Irma.[2]
Rankings
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| Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Final | |||||||
| AFCA | 24 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||
References
- ↑ "Mustangs to play six home games in 2017" (Press release). Midwestern State University Department of Athletics. January 26, 2017. Retrieved September 4, 2017.
- ↑ "@MWSU_Football game against West Florida cancelled due to threat of Hurricane Irma" (Press release). Midwestern State University Department of Athletics. September 7, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2017.