American college football season
The 2018 North Greenville Crusaders football team will represent North Greenville University during the 2018 NCAA Division II football season . They will be led by sixth-year head coach Jeff Farrington . The Crusaders will play their home games at Younts Stadium , and are members of the Gulf South Conference .
The 2018 season marks as the first season as members of the Gulf South Conference.[2]
Preseason [ ] Gulf South Conference coaches poll [ ] On August 2, 2018, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Crusaders predicted to finish in 7th place in the conference.[3]
Predicted finish
Team
Votes (1st place)
1
West Alabama
62 (6)
2
West Florida
59 (3)
3
West Georgia
44
4
Delta State
41
5
Valdosta State
38
6
Florida Tech
32
7 North Greenville 24
8
Mississippi College
16
9
Shorter
8
Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team [ ] The Crusaders had no players selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.[4]
Schedule [ ] North Greenville 2018 football schedule consists of five home and six away games in the regular season. The Crusaders will host GSC foes Mississippi College , Shorter , West Alabama , and West Florida , and will travel to Delta State , Florida Tech , Valdosta State , and West Georgia .[5]
The Crusaders will host one of the three non-conference games against Lenoir–Rhyne from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC), and will travel to North Alabama , which is a FCS Independent team and Tusculum from the SAC.
Two of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3 , as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.[6]
Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance August 30 7:00 p.m. at Tusculum * W 13–32,920 September 8 7:00 p.m. Lenoir–Rhyne * L 24–513,486 September 15 7:00 p.m. Mississippi College Younts Stadium Tigerville, SC [a] September 22 6:00 p.m. at Delta State W 33–206,660 September 29 7:00 p.m. No. 21 West Alabama Younts Stadium Tigerville, SC ESPN3 W 20–163,695 October 6 2:00 p.m. at No. 5 West Georgia ESPN3 L 7–311,788 October 13 2:30 p.m. Shorter Younts Stadium Tigerville, SC W 41–73,102 October 20 3:00 p.m. at No. 7 Valdosta State L 21–445,514 October 27 1:00 p.m. West Florida Younts Stadium Tigerville, SC L 10–262,687 November 3 2:00 p.m. at Florida Tech L 7–372,800 November 10 2:30 p.m. at North Alabama * L 28–316,130 *Non-conference game Rankings from AFCA Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time
[5]
^[a] Hurricane Florence .[7] Game summaries [ ] at Tusculum [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Crusaders
0
3
7
3
13
Pioneers
0
0
3
0
3
Lenoir–Rhyne [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Bears
0
27
10
14
51
Crusaders
3
7
0
14
24
at Delta State [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Crusaders
14
3
13
3
33
Statesmen
10
0
3
7
20
West Alabama [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Tigers
7
0
9
0
16
Crusaders
0
10
0
10
20
at West Georgia [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Crusaders
0
0
0
7
7
Wolves
7
17
7
0
31
Shorter [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Hawks
0
7
0
0
7
Crusaders
6
14
14
7
41
at Valdosta State [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Crusaders
0
0
7
14
21
Blazers
13
10
7
14
44
West Florida [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Argonauts
7
6
13
0
26
Crusaders
0
3
0
7
10
at Florida Tech [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Crusaders
0
0
7
0
7
Panthers
20
10
7
0
37
at North Alabama [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Crusaders
7
7
0
14
28
Lions
5
7
9
10
31
References [ ]
^ "Trey Elder tabbed as NGU's next offensive coordinator" (Press release). North Greenville University Department of Athletics. March 7, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018 .^ "North Greenville Joins GSC as Football Affiliate" . Gulf South Conference. Retrieved July 18, 2018 .^ "West Alabama Tops GSC Football Preseason Poll" . Gulf South Conference. August 2, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .^ https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/gulfsouthconference.com/documents/2018/8/2/Football_2018_Preseason_All_GSC_Table.pdf ^ a b "NGU football releases 2018 schedule" (Press release). North Greenville University Department of Athletics. January 9, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018 .^ "GSC Announces 2018 Football Game of the Week Schedule" . Gulf South Conference. Retrieved July 18, 2018 .^ "MC football game against NGU canceled ahead of Hurricane Florence" . WLBT3. September 12, 2018. Retrieved September 12, 2018 .
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