American college football season
The 2018 Richmond Spiders football team represented the University of Richmond in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season . They were led by second-year head coach Russ Huesman and played their home games at E. Claiborne Robins Stadium . The Spiders were a member of the Colonial Athletic Association . They finished the season 4–7, 2–6 in CAA play to finish in a tie for tenth place.
Previous season [ ]
The Spiders finished the 2017 season 6–5, 4–4 in CAA play to finish in sixth place.
Preseason [ ]
CAA Poll [ ]
In the CAA preseason poll released on July 24, 2018, the Spiders were predicted to finish in seventh place.[1]
Predicted finish
Team
Votes (1st place)
1
James Madison
241 (21)
2
New Hampshire
206 (2)
3
Delaware
182
4
Stony Brook
169
5
Elon
168 (1)
6
Villanova
164
7
Richmond
127
8
Maine
81
9
Albany
78
10
Towson
74
11
William & Mary
55
12
Rhode Island
39
Preseason All-CAA Team [ ]
The Spiders had four players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.
Offense
Dejon Brissett – WR
John Yarbrough – OL
Defense
Andrew Clyde – DL
Special teams
Griffin Trau – K
Award watch lists [ ]
Schedule [ ]
Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance September 1 6:00 p.m. at Virginia * ESPN3 L 13–42[3] 40,524
September 8 6:00 p.m. Fordham * NBCS WA W 52–7[4] 8,057
[a] 5:00 p.m. at Saint Francis (PA) * NECFR W 35–27[5] 1,234
September 22 6:00 p.m. at No. 20 Stony Brook CBSI Digital/CBS SportsLiveL 10–36[6] 6,272
September 29 3:00 p.m. No. 2 James Madison Robins Stadium Richmond, VA NBCS WA+ L 10–63[7] 8,217
October 6 3:00 p.m. Delaware Robins Stadium Richmond, VA NBCS WA or NBCS WA+ L 28–43[8] 8,217
October 13 7:00 p.m. at Albany UAlbany Live Events[10] W 27–24[9] 4,059
October 20 1:30 p.m. at No. 11 Elon FCS /FSGO L 28–38[11] 5,982
November 3 3:00 p.m. Villanova Robins Stadium Richmond, VA NBCS WA or NBCS WA+ L 21–45[12] 8,117
November 10 3:00 p.m. No. 16 Maine Robins Stadium Richmond, VA NBCS WA or NBCS WA+ L 9–28[13] 7,820
November 17 2:00 p.m. at William & Mary Cox Yurview W 10–6[14] 9,739
*Non-conference game HomecomingRankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time
^ Game was originally scheduled for September 15 in Richmond, but relocated due to Hurricane Florence .
Game summaries [ ]
at Virginia [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Spiders
10
0
3
0
13
Cavaliers
14
14
7
7
42
Fordham [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Rams
0
0
0
7
7
Spiders
7
10
35
0
52
at Saint Francis (PA) [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Spiders
2
7
3
23
35
Red Flash
0
3
17
7
27
at Stony Brook [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Spiders
3
0
7
0
10
No. 20 Seawolves
9
7
6
14
36
James Madison [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
No. 2 Dukes
7
28
21
7
63
Spiders
3
7
0
0
10
Delaware [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Fightin' Blue Hens
19
14
10
0
43
Spiders
7
3
6
12
28
at Albany [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Spiders
7
10
7
3
27
Great Danes
7
7
7
3
24
at Elon [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Spiders
7
7
7
7
28
No. 11 Phoenix
14
7
14
3
38
Villanova [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Wildcats
7
13
18
7
45
Spiders
0
7
7
7
21
Maine [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
No. 16 Black Bears
14
7
7
0
28
Spiders
0
3
0
6
9
at William & Mary [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Spiders
0
7
3
0
10
Tribe
0
0
0
6
6
References [ ]
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