2019 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football team

The 2019 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football team represented Jacksonville State University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by sixth-year head coach John Grass and played their home games at Burgess–Snow Field at JSU Stadium in Jacksonville, Alabama as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 6–6, 3–5 in OVC play to finish in a tie for fifth place.

2019 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football
ConferenceOhio Valley Conference
2019 record6–6 (3–5 OVC)
Head coachJohn Grass (6th season)
Offensive coordinatorJimmy Ogle (20th season)
Co-defensive coordinatorWilliam Green (1st season)
Co-defensive coordinatorOwen Kilgore (1st season)
Home stadiumJSU Stadium
(Capacity: 24,000)
2019 Ohio Valley Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
No. 8 Austin Peay +^  7 –1     9 –3  
No. 17 Southeast Missouri State +^  7 –1     9 –3  
UT Martin  6 –2     7 –5  
Eastern Kentucky  5 –3     7 –5  
Tennessee Tech  3 –5     6 –6  
Jacksonville State  3 –5     6 –6  
Murray State  2 –6     4 –8  
Tennessee State  2 –6     3 –9  
Eastern Illinois  1 –7     1 –11  
  • + – Conference co-champions
  • ^ – FCS playoff participant
Rankings from STATS Poll

Previous season
Main article: 2018 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football team

The Gamecocks finished the 2018 season 9–4, 7–1 in OVC play to win the conference championship for the fifth consecutive year. They received the OVC's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they defeated East Tennessee State in the first round before losing in the second round to Maine.

Preseason

Preseason coaches' poll

The OVC released their preseason coaches' poll on July 22, 2019. The Gamecocks were picked to finish in first place.[1]

Predicted finish Team Votes (1st place)
1Jacksonville State135 (15)
2Southeast Missouri State115
3Eastern Kentucky99
4Austin Peay84
5Tennessee State75
6UT Martin58
7Murray State55
8Eastern Illinois38
9Tennessee Tech16

Preseason All-OVC team

The Gamecocks had seven players at seven positions selected to the preseason all-OVC team.[2]

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendance
August 29 7:00 p.m. at Southeastern Louisiana* No. 6
ESPN+ L 14–35 7,116
September 7 6:00 p.m. Chattanooga* No. 18
ESPN+ W 41–20 19,428
September 14 3:00 p.m. No. 4 Eastern Washington* No. 17
  • JSU Stadium
  • Jacksonville, AL
ESPN+ W 49–45 20,901
September 21 6:00 p.m. North Alabama* No. 10
  • JSU Stadium
  • Jacksonville, AL
ESPN+ W 30–12 21,976
September 28 2:00 p.m. at Austin Peay No. 11
ESPN+ L 33–52 7,027
October 5 6:00 p.m. Tennessee State No. 21
  • JSU Stadium
  • Jacksonville, AL
ESPN+ W 31–23 16,589
October 12 12:00 p.m. at Eastern Illinois No. 17
ESPN+ W 28–20 3,170
October 19 3:00 p.m. Southeast Missouri State No. 16
  • JSU Stadium
  • Jacksonville, AL
ESPN3 L 21–24 13,643
October 26 3:00 p.m. Murray State No. 25
  • JSU Stadium
  • Jacksonville, AL
ESPN3 W 14–12 10,786
November 2 2:00 p.m. at UT Martin No. 22
ESPN+ L 17–22 4,169
November 9 1:30 p.m. at Tennessee Tech
ESPN+ L 27–37 11,331
November 23 1:00 p.m. Eastern Kentucky
  • JSU Stadium
  • Jacksonville, AL
ESPN3 L 23–29 14,477
  • *Non-conference game
  • Homecoming
  • Rankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Central time

[3]

Game summaries

at Southeastern Louisiana
1 2 3 4 Total
No. 6 Gamecocks 0 7 0 7 14
Lions 14 7 7 7 35
See also: 2019 Southeastern Louisiana Lions football team
Overall record Last meeting Result
6–4–1 1978 W, 10–7

Chattanooga
1 2 3 4 Total
Mocs 3 3 14 0 20
No. 18 Gamecocks 7 14 6 14 41
See also: 2019 Chattanooga Mocs football team
Overall record Last meeting Result
15–26 2017 W, 27–13

Eastern Washington
1 2 3 4 Total
No. 4 Eagles 28 7 10 0 45
No. 17 Gamecocks 7 14 7 21 49
See also: 2019 Eastern Washington Eagles football team
Overall record Last meeting Result
0–1 2013 FCS Playoffs L, 24–35

North Alabama
1 2 3 4 Total
Lions 0 6 6 0 12
No. 10 Gamecocks 7 16 0 7 30
See also: 2019 North Alabama Lions football team
Overall record Last meeting Result
25–18–3 2016 W, 31–12

at Austin Peay
1 2 3 4 Total
No. 11 Gamecocks 7 0 7 19 33
Governors 10 21 14 7 52
See also: 2019 Austin Peay Governors football team
Overall record Last meeting Result
20–6–3 2018 W, 48–32

Tennessee State
1 2 3 4 Total
Tigers 17 3 3 0 23
No. 21 Gamecocks 3 14 7 7 31
See also: 2019 Tennessee State Tigers football team
Overall record Last meeting Result
11–2 2018 W, 41–14

at Eastern Illinois
1 2 3 4 Total
No. 17 Gamecocks 7 14 0 7 28
Panthers 7 0 7 6 20
See also: 2019 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team
Overall record Last meeting Result
10–6 2018 W, 49–22

Southeast Missouri State
1 2 3 4 Total
Redhawks 0 7 3 14 24
No. 16 Gamecocks 0 7 0 14 21
See also: 2019 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football team
Overall record Last meeting Result
17–6 2018 L, 14–37

Murray State
1 2 3 4 Total
Racers 0 0 7 5 12
No. 25 Gamecocks 7 7 0 0 14
See also: 2019 Murray State Racers football team
Overall record Last meeting Result
14–2 2018 W, 42–15

at UT Martin
1 2 3 4 Total
No. 22 Gamecocks 7 7 0 3 17
Skyhawks 0 13 6 3 22
See also: 2019 UT Martin Skyhawks football team
Overall record Last meeting Result
33–7 2018 W, 21–14

at Tennessee Tech
1 2 3 4 Total
Gamecocks 7 0 7 13 27
Golden Eagles 10 14 7 6 37
See also: 2019 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team
Overall record Last meeting Result
16–5 2018 W, 48–20

Eastern Kentucky
1 2 3 4 Total
Colonels 6 3 14 6 29
Gamecocks 6 3 7 7 23
See also: 2019 Eastern Kentucky Colonels football team
Overall record Last meeting Result
10–6 2018 W, 56–7

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 13 Final 
STATS FCS 6 18 17 10 11 21 17 16 25 22 RV NR NR NR  
Coaches 6 17 16 13 12 20 18 14 21 18 RV NR NR NR
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gollark: I like "respect" as "recognizing people as fellow humans who you should maintain some basic standard of niceness with". And "respect" as "admiring people based on achievements". And "respect" as "acknowledge people's opinions on things reasonably" and such. I do *not* like "respect" as "subservience"/"obedience" - the "respect for authority" sense. These are quite hard to define nicely and just get lumped into one overloaded word.
gollark: > I don't really like the term of "respect", because people use it to mean so many different often mutually exclusive things based on convenience then equivocate them in weird ways;
gollark: See, I consider this somewhat, well, worrying, given what I said about "respect" for authority figures being pretty close to "subservience" a lot.

References
  1. "Media Pollsters Tab Jacksonville State as 2019 OVC Football Preseason Favorites". ovcsports.com. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  2. "JSU's Cooper, SEMO's Hall Named 2019 OVC Preseason Football Players of the Year". ovcsports.com. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  3. "2019 Jacksonville State Football Schedule". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
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