2018 Furman Paladins football team

The 2018 Furman Paladins football team represented Furman University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Clay Hendrix and played their home games at Paladin Stadium. They were a member of the Southern Conference. They finished the season 6–4, 6–2 in SoCon play finish in a three way tie for the SoCon championship with Wofford and East Tennessee State. After tiebreakers, they did not receive the SoCon's automatic bid to the FCS playoffs and they did not receive an at-large bid.

2018 Furman Paladins football
SoCon co-champion
ConferenceSouthern Conference
2018 record6–4 (6–2 SoCon)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorGeorge Quarles (1st season)
Defensive coordinatorChadd Staggs (2nd season)
Home stadiumPaladin Stadium
(Capacity: 16,000)
2018 Southern Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
No. 13 Wofford +^  6 2     9 4  
No. 22 East Tennessee State +^  6 2     8 4  
Furman +  6 2     6 4  
Samford  5 3     6 5  
Chattanooga  4 4     6 5  
The Citadel  4 4     5 6  
Mercer  4 4     5 6  
Western Carolina  1 7     3 8  
VMI  0 8     1 10  
  • + Conference co-champions
  • ^ FCS playoff participant
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

Previous season

The Paladins finished the 2017 season 8–5, 6–2 in SoCon play to finish in a tie for second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Elon in the first round before losing to Wofford in the second round.

Preseason

Preseason media poll

The SoCon released their preseason media poll on July 25, 2018, with the Paladins predicted to finish in second place.[1] The same day the coaches released their preseason poll with the Paladins predicted to finish in third place.[2]

Media poll
Predicted finish Team Votes (1st place)
1Samford204 (20)
2Furman174 (2)
3Wofford163 (1)
4Mercer133
5Western Carolina114
6Chattanooga88
7The Citadel83
8East Tennessee State53
9VMI23
Coaches poll
Predicted finish Team Votes (1st place)
1Samford63 (7)
2Wofford53 (1)
3Furman52 (1)
4Western Carolina39
5Chattanooga34
6Mercer32
7The Citadel28
8East Tennessee State15
9VMI8

Preseason All-SoCon Teams

The Paladins placed seven players on the preseason all-SoCon teams.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendance
September 112:20 p.m.at No. 2 (FBS) Clemson*No. 23ACCNL 7–4880,048
September 86:00 p.m.at No. 15 Elon*No. 25CBSI Digital/CBS SportsLiveL 7–458,058
September 151:00 p.m.Colgate*WYCW Cancelled[lower-alpha 1]
September 227:30 p.m.at East Tennessee StateESPN3L 27–298,453
September 292:00 p.m.Western Carolina
  • Paladin Stadium
  • Greenville, SC
WYCWW 44–387,201
October 131:00 p.m.No. 6 Wofford
  • Paladin Stadium
  • Greenville, SC
WYCWW 34–147,006
October 202:00 p.m.Samford
  • Paladin Stadium
  • Greenville, SC
WYCWL 25–386,016
October 272:00 p.m.at The CitadelESPN+W 28–178,574
November 31:00 p.m.Chattanooga
  • Paladin Stadium
  • Greenville, SC
WYCWW 16–104,332
November 101:30 p.m.at VMIESPN+W 49–133,922
November 173:00 p.m.at MercerESPN+W 35–308,811
  • *Non-conference game
  • Homecoming
  • Rankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time
  1. This game has been cancelled in anticipation of Hurricane Florence.

Game summaries

at Clemson

1 2 3 4 Total
No. 23 Paladins 0 0 0 7 7
No. 2 (FBS) Tigers 10 17 14 7 48

at Elon

1 2 3 4 Total
No. 25 Paladins 0 0 0 7 7
No. 15 Phoenix 14 14 10 7 45

at East Tennessee State

1 2 3 4 Total
Paladins 7 6 14 0 27
Buccaneers 3 3 7 16 29

Western Carolina

1 2 3 4 Total
Catamounts 7 3 14 14 38
Paladins 14 17 7 6 44

Wofford

1 2 3 4 Total
No. 6 Terriers 0 7 7 0 14
Paladins 14 7 6 7 34

Samford

1 2 3 4 Total
Bulldogs 10 0 21 7 38
Paladins 3 9 7 6 25

at The Citadel

1 2 3 4 Total
Paladins 7 7 0 14 28
Bulldogs 3 7 7 0 17

Chattanooga

1 2 3 4 Total
Mocs 0 0 3 7 10
Paladins 7 6 0 3 16

at VMI

1 2 3 4 Total
Paladins 21 14 14 0 49
Keydets 7 0 0 6 13

at Mercer

1 2 3 4 Total
Paladins 7 13 9 6 35
Bears 7 3 14 6 30

Ranking movements

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ 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 12 Final 
STATS FCS 23 25 RV RV NR NR NR RV NR NR RV RV RV  
Coaches 21 21 RV NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR RV RV

References

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