2019 Shorter Hawks football team

The 2019 Shorter Hawks football team represents Shorter University during the 2019 NCAA Division II football season. They are led by second-year head coach Zach Morrison. The Hawks play their home games at Barron Stadium, and are members of the Gulf South Conference.

2019 Shorter Hawks football
ConferenceGulf South Conference
2019 record1–10 (0–8 GSC)
Head coachZach Morrison (2nd season)
Offensive coordinatorBlaise Holzer (2nd season)
Defensive coordinatorChad Creamer (2nd season)
Home stadiumBarron Stadium
(Capacity: 6,500)
2019 Gulf South Conference football standings
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

Preseason

Gulf South Conference coaches poll

On August 1, 2019, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Hawks predicted to finish in 9th place in the conference.[1]

Predicted finish Team Votes (1st place)
1Valdosta State64 (8)
2West Georgia55
3West Alabama49
4West Florida44 (1)
5Florida Tech37
6Delta State28
7North Greenville24
8Mississippi College15
9Shorter8

Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team

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

Schedule

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

The Hawks will host one of the three non-conference games against Allen Yellow Jackets from the Appalachian Athletic Conference and will travel to East Tennessee State Buccaneers football from the Southern Conference and Fort Valley State from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

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

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
September 77:30 p.m.at East Tennessee State*
ESPN+L 10-488,615
September 141:00 p.m.West Florida
ESPN3L 14-421,177
September 211:00 p.m.at Fort Valley State*
L 23-303,285
September 286:00 p.m.No. 1 Valdosta State
  • Barron Stadium
  • Rome, GA
ESPN+L 7-441,471
October 512:00 p.m.West Georgia
L 34-441,907
October 125:00 p.m.West Alabama
L 0-415,922
October 191:00 p.m.North Greenville
  • Barron Stadium
  • Rome, GA
L 0-7946
October 264:00 p.m.Mississippi College
L 20-413,087
November 21:00 p.m.Delta State
  • Barron Stadium
  • Rome, GA
L 6-381,028
November 91:00 p.m.Allen*
  • Barron Stadium
  • Rome, GA
W 37-71,036
November 162:00 p.m.at Florida Tech
L 3-421,450
  • *Non-conference game
  • Homecoming
  • Rankings from AFCA Poll released prior to the game
  • All times are in Eastern time
Schedule Source:[3]

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
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References
  1. "2019 GSC Football Preseason". Shorter University Department of Athletics. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
  2. https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/gulfsouthconference.com/documents/2019/8/1/FB_2019_Preseason_All_GSC.pdf
  3. "NGU Football releases 2019 schedule" (Press release). North Greenville University Department of Athletics. January 3, 2019. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  4. "GSC Announces 2019 Football Game of the Week Schedule". Gulf South Conference. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
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