2019 North Greenville Crusaders football team

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2019 North Greenville Crusaders football
ConferenceGulf South Conference
2019 record3–7 (2–6 GSC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorBrad Robbins (1st season)
Defensive coordinatorGreg Harris (6th season)
Home stadiumYounts Stadium
(Capacity: 5,000)
Seasons
← 2018
2021 →
2019 Gulf South Conference football standings
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
No. 5 Valdosta State $^   8 – 0     10 – 1  
No. 1 West Florida ^   7 – 1     13 – 2  
Delta State   5 – 3     6 – 4  
West Georgia   4 – 4     6 – 5  
Mississippi College   4 – 4     5 – 5  
West Alabama   3 – 5     6 – 5  
Florida Tech   3 – 5     5 – 6  
North Greenville   2 – 6     3 – 7  
Shorter   0 – 8     1 – 10  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division II playoff participant
Rankings from AFCA Poll

The 2019 North Greenville Crusaders football team will represented North Greenville University during the 2019 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Jeff Farrington. The Crusaders played their home games at Younts Stadium and were members of the Gulf South Conference.

Preseason[]

Gulf South Conference coaches poll[]

On August 1, 2019, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Crusaders predicted to finish in 7th place in the conference.[1]

Predicted finish Team Votes (1st place)
1 Valdosta State 64 (8)
2 West Georgia 55
3 West Alabama 49
4 West Florida 44 (1)
5 Florida Tech 37
6 Delta State 28
7 North Greenville 24
8 Mississippi College 15
9 Shorter 8

Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team[]

The Crusaders had only one player selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.[2]

Schedule[]

North Greenville 2019 football schedule consists of five home and five away games in the regular season. The Crusaders will host GSC foes Delta State, Florida Tech, Valdosta State, and West Georgia, and will travel to Mississippi College, Shorter, West Alabama, and West Florida.[3]

The Crusaders will host one of the two non-conference games against Newberry from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC), and will travel to Western Carolina from the Southern Conference.

Two of the ten games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.[4]

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
September 57:00 p.m.Newberry*
W 17–74,117
September 143:30 p.m.at Western Carolina*
ESPN+L 17–207,216
September 218:00 p.m.at Mississippi College
L 27-393,134
September 287:00 p.m.Delta State
  • Younts Stadium
  • Tigerville, SC
L 9–343,419
October 52:00 p.m.at No. 25 West Alabama
ESPN3W 29–282,134
October 127:00 p.m.West Georgia
  • Younts Stadium
  • Tigerville, SC
ESPN3L 21–422,421
October 191:00 p.m.Shorter
W 7–0946
October 264:00 p.m.No. 1 Valdosta Statedagger
  • Younts Stadium
  • Tigerville, SC
L 15–202,437
November 25:00 p.m.at No. 20 West Florida
L 14–175,042
November 91:30 p.m.Florida Tech
  • Younts Stadium
  • Tigerville, SC
L 14–17 2OT3,744
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from AFCA Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time

[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "NGU voted seventh in pre-season Coaches Poll". North Greenville University Department of Athletics. Archived from the original on September 4, 2019. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  2. ^ https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/gulfsouthconference.com/documents/2019/8/1/FB_2019_Preseason_All_GSC.pdf
  3. ^ a b "NGU Football releases 2019 schedule" (Press release). North Greenville University Department of Athletics. January 3, 2019. Archived from the original on September 4, 2019. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  4. ^ "Crusaders set for two ESPN3 showings in 2019". North Greenville University Department of Athletics. Archived from the original on September 4, 2019. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
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