American college football season
The 2018 West Florida Argonauts football team will represent the University of West Florida in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season . They will be led by third-year head coach Pete Shinnick . The Argonauts will play their home games at Blue Wahoos Stadium and are members of the Gulf South Conference .
Schedule [ ]
West Florida 2018 football schedule consists of five home and six away games in the regular season. The Argonauts will host GSC foes Florida Tech , Shorter , Valdosta State , and West Georgia , and will travel to Delta State , Mississippi College , North Greenville , and West Alabama .[1]
The Argonauts will host one of the three non-conference games against Carson–Newman from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) and will travel to Midwestern State from the Lone Star Conference and North Alabama , which is a FCS Independent team.
Two of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3 , as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.[2]
Date Time Opponent Rank Site TV Result Attendance August 30 7:00 p.m. No. 22 Carson–Newman * No. 2 BLAB TV W 19–95,673
September 8 6:00 p.m. at No. 10 Midwestern State * No. 2 L 17-388,258
September 15 6:00 p.m. Shorter No. 13 Blue Wahoos Stadium Pensacola, FL BLAB TV W 51-75,479
September 22 7:00 p.m. at Mississippi College No. 10 ESPN3 W 34-213,347
September 29 6:00 p.m. at Delta State No. 11 W 30-215,678
October 6 6:00 p.m. at North Alabama * No. 11 Lion Vision W 24-196,811
October 13 6:00 p.m. No. 4 West Georgia No. 10 Blue Wahoos Stadium Pensacola, FL ESPN3 L 7-276,838
October 20 4:00 p.m. Florida Tech No. 17 Blue Wahoos Stadium Pensacola, FL BLAB TV L 28-305,191
October 27 12:00 p.m. at North Greenville BLAB TV W 26-102,687
November 3 2:00 p.m. No. 7 Valdosta State Blue Wahoos Stadium Pensacola, FL ESPN3 L 21-485,893
November 10 2:00 p.m. West Alabama L 7-454,303
*Non-conference game HomecomingRankings from AFCA Poll released prior to the game All times are in Central time
Schedule Source: [3]
Rankings [ ]
Ranking movementsLegend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking. NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. т = Tied with team above or below. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
Poll
Pre
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Final
AFCA
2
2 (6)
13
10
11
11
10
17
RV
NR
NR
NR
NR
Game summaries [ ]
Carson-Newman [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Eagles
0
9
0
0
9
Argonauts
6
0
7
6
19
at Midwestern State [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Argonauts
7
7
0
3
17
Mustangs
0
3
14
21
38
Shorter [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Hawks
0
0
0
7
7
Argonauts
20
17
14
0
51
at Mississippi College [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Argonauts
3
7
14
10
34
Choctaws
0
0
14
7
21
at Delta State [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Argonauts
3
3
10
14
30
Statesmen
7
14
0
0
21
at North Alabama [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Argonauts
3
7
7
7
24
Lions
7
3
3
6
19
West Georgia [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Wolves
3
10
7
7
27
Argonauts
0
7
0
0
7
Florida Tech [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Panthers
3
7
10
10
30
Argonauts
14
7
0
7
28
at North Greenville [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Argonauts
7
6
13
0
26
Crusaders
0
3
0
7
10
Valdosta State [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Blazers
14
3
7
24
48
Argonauts
0
14
7
0
21
at West Alabama [ ]
1
2
3
4
Total
Argonauts
7
0
0
0
7
Tigers
16
13
9
7
45
References [ ]
Venues National championship seasons in bold