American college football season
2018 Shorter Hawks football Conference Gulf South Conference 2018 record 0–11 (0–8 GSC) Head coach Offensive coordinator Blaise Holzer (1st season) Defensive coordinator Chad Creamer (1st season) Home stadium Barron Stadium Seasons
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)
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 Hawks had two players at two positions selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.[3]
Offense
Lewis Hayes – WR
Defense
Nehemiah Reddish – DB
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]
Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance August 30 7:30 p.m. at No. 11 (FCS) Samford * ESPN+ L 9–665,252 September 8 1:00 p.m. Tusculum * L 14-612,782 September 15 7:00 p.m. at No. 13 West Florida L 7-515,479 September 22 7:00 p.m. at No. 16 Valdosta State L 0-525,103 September 29 1:00 p.m. No. 6 West Georgia L 27-581,345 October 6 1:00 p.m. West Alabama L 17-481,384 October 13 2:30 p.m. at North Greenville L 7-413,102 October 20 1:00 p.m. Mississippi College ESPN3 L 24-371,225 October 25 7:00 p.m. at Delta State ESPN3 L 20-463,333 November 3 6:00 p.m. at North Alabama * L 14-416,289 November 10 1:00 p.m. Florida Tech L 7-551,575 *Non-conference game Rankings from AFCA Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time
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Game summaries [ ] at Samford [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Hawks
0
0
2
7
9
Bulldogs
17
28
7
14
66
Tusculum [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Pioneers
0
31
16
14
61
Hawks
6
0
0
8
14
at West Florida [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Hawks
0
0
0
7
7
Argonauts
20
17
14
0
51
at Valdosta State [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Hawks
0
0
0
0
0
Blazers
10
0
21
21
52
West Georgia [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Wolves
14
24
13
7
58
Hawks
0
14
7
6
27
West Alabama [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Tigers
14
17
14
3
48
Hawks
7
0
3
7
17
at North Greenville [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Hawks
0
7
0
0
7
Crusaders
6
14
14
7
41
Mississippi College [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Choctaws
7
21
3
6
37
Hawks
7
0
7
10
24
at Delta State [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Hawks
6
7
0
7
20
Statesmen
14
14
18
0
46
at North Alabama [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Hawks
0
0
7
7
14
Lions
14
14
10
3
41
Florida Tech [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Panthers
10
28
10
7
55
Hawks
0
0
0
7
7
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