2018 Shorter Hawks football team

2018 Shorter Hawks football
Conference Gulf South Conference
2018 record 0–6 (0–4 GSC)
Head coach Zach Morrison[1] (1st season)
Offensive coordinator Blaise Holzer (1st season)
Defensive coordinator Chad Creamer (1st season)
Home stadium Barron Stadium
(Capacity: 6,500)
2018 Gulf South Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
No. 8 Valdosta State  4 –0     6 –0  
No. 4 West Georgia  3 –0     6 –0  
No. 10 West Florida  3 –0     5 –1  
Florida Tech  2 –1     5 –1  
North Greenville  2 –1     3 –2  
West Alabama  1 –2     4 –2  
Mississippi College  0 –3     2 –3  
Delta State  0 –4     0 –6  
Shorter  0 –4     0 –6  
As of October 15, 2018; Rankings from AFCA Poll

The 2018 Shorter Hawks football team will represent Shorter University during the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They will be led by first-year head coach Zach Morrison. The Hawks will play their home games at Barron Stadium, and are members of the Gulf South Conference.

Preseason

Gulf South Conference coaches poll

On August 2, 2018, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Hawks predicted to finish in 9th place, last place in the conference.[2]

Predicted finish Team Votes (1st place)
1West Alabama62 (6)
2West Florida59 (3)
3West Georgia44
4Delta State41
5Valdosta State38
6Florida Tech32
7North Greenville24
8Mississippi College16
9Shorter8

Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team

The Hawks had two players at two positions selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.[3]

Schedule

Shorter 2018 football schedule consists of five home and six away games in the regular season. The Hawks will host GSC foes Florida Tech, Mississippi College, West Alabama, and West Georgia, and will travel to Delta State, North Greenville, Valdosta State, and West Florida.

The Hawks will host one of the three non-conference games against Tusculum Pioneers football from the South Atlantic Conference and will travel to North Alabama, which is a FCS Independent team and Samford from the Southern Conference.

Two of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.[4]

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResult
August 307:30 p.m.at No. 11 (FCS) Samford*
ESPN+L 9–66
September 81:00 p.m.Tusculum*
L 14–61
September 157:00 p.m.at No. 13 West Florida
L 7–51
September 227:00 p.m.at No. 16 Valdosta State
L 0–52
September 291:00 p.m.No. 6 West Georgia
  • Barron Stadium
  • Rome, GA
L 27–58
October 61:00 p.m.West Alabama
  • Barron Stadium
  • Rome, GA
L 17–48
October 132:30 p.m.at North Greenville
October 201:00 p.m.Mississippi Collegedagger
  • Barron Stadium
  • Rome, GA
ESPN3
October 257:00 p.m.at Delta State
ESPN3
November 36:00 p.m.at North Alabama*
November 101:00 p.m.Florida Tech
  • Barron Stadium
  • Rome, GA
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from AFCA Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time
Schedule Source:[5]

Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Final 
AFCA NR NR NR NR NR NR NR

Game summaries

at Samford

1 2 3 4 Total
Hawks 0 0 2 7 9
Bulldogs 17 28 7 14 66
Overall record Last meeting Result
First meeting

Tusculum

1 2 3 4 Total
Pioneers 0
Hawks 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
0-1 September 9, 2017 L 12-39

at West Florida

1 2 3 4 Total
Hawks 0
Argonauts 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
0-2 October 21, 2017 L 29-42

at Valdosta State

1 2 3 4 Total
Hawks 0
Blazers 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
0-6 November 11, 2017 L 0-52

West Georgia

1 2 3 4 Total
Wolves 0
Hawks 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
1-5 October 27, 2017 L 6-42

West Alabama

1 2 3 4 Total
Tigers 0
Hawks 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
0-6 September 29, 2017 L 0-62

at North Greenville

1 2 3 4 Total
Hawks 0
Crusaders 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
1-1 November 22, 2014 L 16-42

Mississippi College

1 2 3 4 Total
Choctaws 0
Hawks 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
2-2 November 4, 2017 L 29-30

at Delta State

1 2 3 4 Total
Hawks 0
Statesmen 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
1-5 September 22, 2017 L 20-54

at North Alabama

1 2 3 4 Total
Hawks 0
Lions 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
0-6 October 11, 2017 L 0-48

Florida Tech

1 2 3 4 Total
Panthers 0
Hawks 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
0-5 September 16, 2017 L 6-31

References

  1. ↑ "Member of Shorter Hawks Inaugural Team Returns to Shorter University to Head Football Program" (Press release). Shorter University Department of Athletics. January 3, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  2. ↑ "West Alabama Tops GSC Football Preseason Poll". Gulf South Conference. August 2, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/gulfsouthconference.com/documents/2018/8/2/Football_2018_Preseason_All_GSC_Table.pdf
  4. ↑ "GSC Announces 2018 Football Game of the Week Schedule". Gulf South Conference. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  5. ↑ "2018 Football Schedule". Shorter University Department of Athletics. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
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