American college football season
The 2018 Tennessee State Tigers football team represented Tennessee State University as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season . They were led by ninth-year head coach Rod Reed and played their home games at Nissan Stadium and Hale Stadium . Tennessee State finished the season 4–5 overall and 3–4 in OVC play to place fifth.
Preseason [ edit ] OVC media poll [ edit ] On July 20, 2018, the media covering the OVC released their preseason poll with the Tigers predicted to finish in fourth place.[1] On July 23, the OVC released their coaches poll with the Tigers predicted to finish in sixth place.[2]
Media poll Predicted finish Team Votes (1st place) 1 Jacksonville State 134 (14) 2 Austin Peay 114 (1) 3 UT Martin 96 4 Tennessee State 91 5 Eastern Illinois 83 6 Eastern Kentucky 64 7 Murray State 39 8 Southeast Missouri State 35 9 Tennessee Tech 19
Coaches poll Predicted finish Team Votes (1st place) 1 Jacksonville State 126 (14) 2 Austin Peay 112 (4) 3 UT Martin 95 4 Eastern Illinois 73 5 Eastern Kentucky 69 6 Tennessee State 64 7 Southeast Missouri State 62 8 Murray State 24 9 Tennessee Tech 23
Preseason All-OVC team [ edit ] The Tigers had three players selected to the preseason all-OVC team.[3]
Offense
Steven Newbold – WR
Defense
Vincent Sellers – DB
Dajour Nesbeth – DB
Schedule [ edit ] Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance September 1 6:00 p.m. Bethune–Cookman * ESPN+ W 34–314,069 September 8 6:00 p.m. vs. Jackson State * FSS Cancelled [a] September 15 5:00 p.m. at Hampton * Cancelled [b] September 22 2:00 p.m. at Eastern Illinois ESPN+ W 41–407,670 September 29 3:00 p.m. at Vanderbilt * SECN L 27–3127,340 October 6 6:00 p.m. at Austin Peay ESPN3 L 34–4912,201 October 13 1:00 p.m. at Murray State ESPN+ L 21–453,318 October 20 4:30 p.m. Tennessee Tech Nissan Stadium Nashville, TN ESPN+ W 41–1417,283 November 3 1:00 p.m. at No. 25 Southeast Missouri State ESPN+ L 21–383,481 November 10 2:00 p.m. No. 8 Jacksonville State ESPN+ L 14–416,718 November 17 2:00 p.m. UT Martin Hale Stadium Nashville, TN ESPN+ W 31–28 OT 3,618 *Non-conference game HomecomingRankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game All times are in Central time
^ The Jackson State game was cancelled due to inclement weather. ^ The Hampton game was cancelled in anticipation of Hurricane Florence . Game summaries [ edit ] Bethune–Cookman [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Wildcats 0 3 0 0 3 Tigers 14 7 3 10 34
At Eastern Illinois [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Tigers 0 13 13 15 41 Panthers 17 7 7 9 40
At Vanderbilt [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Tigers 0 13 7 7 27 Commodores 0 10 14 7 31
At Austin Peay [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Tigers 7 14 6 7 34 Governors 7 14 21 7 49
At Murray State [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Tigers 14 0 0 7 21 Racers 3 21 14 7 45
Tennessee Tech [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Golden Eagles 0 0 0 14 14 Tigers 17 10 14 0 41
At Southeast Missouri State [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Tigers 0 14 7 0 21 No. 25 Redhawks 3 21 14 0 38
Jacksonville State [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total No. 8 Gamecocks 20 7 0 14 41 Tigers 7 0 0 7 14
UT Martin [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 OT Total Skyhawks 0 3 7 15 3 28 Tigers 0 12 3 10 6 31
References [ edit ]
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