1998 The Citadel Bulldogs football team

1998 Southern Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant; Rankings from The Sports Network I-AA Poll

1998 The Citadel Bulldogs football
1998 The Citadel Bulldogs football
Conference	Southern Conference
1998 record	5–6 (4–4 SoCon)
Head coach	Don Powers (3rd season);
Offensive scheme	Option
Home stadium	Johnson Hagood Stadium; (Capacity: 21,000)
	Seasons ← 1997 1999 →

The 1998 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 1998 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Don Powers served as head coach for the third season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Conference and played home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 5	at No. 3 (Div-IA) Florida*	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL	L 10–49	85,061
September 12	at Wofford	Gibbs Stadium Spartanburg, SC	W 20–14	10,271
September 19	Western Carolina	Johnson Hagood Stadium Charleston, SC	L 8–14	11,011
September 26	at No. 13 Appalachian State	Kidd Brewer Stadium Boone, NC	L 11–26	10,261	^[5]
October 3	at South Florida*	Raymond James Stadium Tampa, FL	L 6–45	32,598
October 10	East Tennessee State	Johnson Hagood Stadium Charleston, SC	W 31–20	15,707
October 17	at No. 24 Furman	Paladin Stadium Greenville, SC (Rivalry)	W 25–24	13,011
October 24	No. 1 Georgia Southern	Johnson Hagood Stadium Charleston, SC	L 34–51	14,222
October 31	No. 17 Hofstra*	Johnson Hagood Stadium Charleston, SC	W 32–30	8,673
November 7	Chattanooga	Johnson Hagood Stadium Charleston, SC	L 10–13	16,842
November 14	at VMI	Alumni Memorial Field Lexington, VA (Military Classic of the South)	W 36–10	8,832
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from The Sports Network FCS Poll released prior to game Poll released prior to the game

^ "How Johnson Hagood Stadium Came To Be". citadelsports.com. Archived from the original on August 18, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
^ 2011 Citadel Football Media Guide. The Citadel. p. 152. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
^ "Milestones". The Citadel Football Association. Archived from the original on 2016-01-23. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
^ "Citadel Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on 2015-12-26. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
^ "ASU runs by Citadel". The State. September 27, 1998. Retrieved November 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

v t The Citadel Bulldogs football
Venues	College Park Stadium (c. 1905–1926) Johnson Hagood Stadium (original) (1927–1947) Johnson Hagood Stadium (1948–present)
Bowls & rivalries	1960 Tangerine Bowl Furman Military Classic of the South (VMI) Wofford
Culture & lore	The Regimental Band and Pipes
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

1998 Southern Conference football standings
v t	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
No. 2 Georgia Southern $^		8	–	0		14	–	1
No. 6 Appalachian State ^		6	–	2		10	–	3
Western Carolina		5	–	3		6	–	5
Chattanooga		4	–	4		5	–	6
The Citadel		4	–	4		5	–	6
East Tennessee State		3	–	5		4	–	7
Wofford		3	–	5		4	–	7
Furman		3	–	5		5	–	6
VMI		0	–	8		1	–	10

$ – Conference champion ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant Rankings from The Sports Network I-AA Poll