2019 North Greenville Crusaders football team

The 2019 North Greenville Crusaders football team will represented North Greenville University during the 2019 NCAA Division II football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Jeff Farrington. The Crusaders played their home games at Younts Stadium and were members of the Gulf South Conference.

2019 North Greenville Crusaders football
ConferenceGulf South Conference
2019 record3–7 (2–6 GSC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorBrad Robbins (1st season)
Defensive coordinatorGreg Harris (6th season)
Home stadiumYounts Stadium
(Capacity: 5,000)
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 Crusaders predicted to finish in 7th 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

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

The Crusaders will host one of the two non-conference games against Newberry from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC), and will travel to Western Carolina from the Southern Conference.

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

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
September 57:00 p.m.Newberry*
W 17-74,117
September 143:30 p.m.at Western Carolina*
ESPN+L 17-207,216
September 218:00 p.m.at Mississippi College
L 27-393,134
September 287:00 p.m.Delta State
  • Younts Stadium
  • Tigerville, SC
L 9-343,419
October 52:00 p.m.at No. 25 West Alabama
ESPN3W 29-282,134
October 127:00 p.m.West Georgia
  • Younts Stadium
  • Tigerville, SC
ESPN3L 21-422,421
October 191:00 p.m.Shorter
W 7-0946
October 264:00 p.m.No. 1 Valdosta State
  • Younts Stadium
  • Tigerville, SC
L 15-202,437
November 25:00 p.m.at No. 20 West Florida
L 14-175,042
November 91:30 p.m.Florida Tech
  • Younts Stadium
  • Tigerville, SC
L 14-17 2OT3,744
  • *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

References
  1. "NGU voted seventh in pre-season Coaches Poll". North Greenville University Department of Athletics. Retrieved September 4, 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. "Crusaders set for two ESPN3 showings in 2019". North Greenville University Department of Athletics. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
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