2018 Shorter Hawks football team

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.

2018 Shorter Hawks football
ConferenceGulf South Conference
2018 record0–11 (0–8 GSC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorBlaise Holzer (1st season)
Defensive coordinatorChad Creamer (1st season)
Home stadiumBarron Stadium
(Capacity: 6,500)
2018 Gulf South Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
No. 1 Valdosta State $^  8 –0     14 –0  
No. 16 West Georgia ^  7 –1     10 –2  
Florida Tech ^  5 –3     8 –4  
West Alabama ^  5 –3     8 –4  
West Florida  4 –4     6 –5  
North Greenville  3 –4     4 –6  
Delta State  2 –6     2 –8  
Mississippi College  1 –6     3 –7  
Shorter  0 –8     0 –11  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division II playoff participant
Rankings from AFCA Poll

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)
1West Alabama62 (6)
2West Florida59 (3)
3West Georgia44
4Delta State41
5Valdosta State38
6Florida Tech32
7North Greenville24
8Mississippi College16
9Shorter8

Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team

The Hawks had two players at two positions selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.[3]

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]

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
August 307:30 p.m.at No. 11 (FCS) Samford*
ESPN+L 9–665,252
September 81:00 p.m.Tusculum*
L 14-612,782
September 157:00 p.m.at No. 13 West Florida
L 7-515,479
September 227:00 p.m.at No. 16 Valdosta State
L 0-525,103
September 291:00 p.m.No. 6 West Georgia
  • Barron Stadium
  • Rome, GA
L 27-581,345
October 61:00 p.m.West Alabama
  • Barron Stadium
  • Rome, GA
L 17-481,384
October 132:30 p.m.at North Greenville
L 7-413,102
October 201:00 p.m.Mississippi College
  • Barron Stadium
  • Rome, GA
ESPN3L 24-371,225
October 257:00 p.m.at Delta State
ESPN3L 20-463,333
November 36:00 p.m.at North Alabama*
L 14-416,289
November 101:00 p.m.Florida Tech
  • Barron Stadium
  • Rome, GA
L 7-551,575
  • *Non-conference game
  • Homecoming
  • Rankings from AFCA Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time
Schedule Source:[5]

Rankings
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 Final 
AFCA NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR NR

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

References
  1. "Member of Shorter Hawks Inaugural Team Returns to Shorter University to Head Football Program" (Press release). Shorter University Department of Athletics. January 3, 2018. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  2. "West Alabama Tops GSC Football Preseason Poll". Gulf South Conference. August 2, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  3. https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/gulfsouthconference.com/documents/2018/8/2/Football_2018_Preseason_All_GSC_Table.pdf
  4. "GSC Announces 2018 Football Game of the Week Schedule". Gulf South Conference. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  5. "2018 Football Schedule". Shorter University Department of Athletics. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
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