American college football season
The 2018 West Florida Argonauts football team will represent the University of West Florida in the 2018 NCAA Division II football season. They will be led by third-year head coach Pete Shinnick. The Argonauts will play their home games at Blue Wahoos Stadium and are members of the Gulf South Conference.
West Florida 2018 football schedule consists of five home and six away games in the regular season. The Argonauts will host GSC foes Florida Tech, Shorter, Valdosta State, and West Georgia, and will travel to Delta State, Mississippi College, North Greenville, and West Alabama.[1]
The Argonauts will host one of the three non-conference games against Carson–Newman from the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) and will travel to Midwestern State from the Lone Star Conference and North Alabama, which is a FCS Independent team.
Two of the eleven games will be broadcast on ESPN3, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.[2]
Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
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August 30 | 7:00 p.m. | No. 22 Carson–Newman* | No. 2 | | BLAB TV | W 19–9 | 5,673 |
September 8 | 6:00 p.m. | at No. 10 Midwestern State* | No. 2 | | | L 17-38 | 8,258 |
September 15 | 6:00 p.m. | Shorter | No. 13 | - Blue Wahoos Stadium
- Pensacola, FL
| BLAB TV | W 51-7 | 5,479 |
September 22 | 7:00 p.m. | at Mississippi College | No. 10 | | ESPN3 | W 34-21 | 3,347 |
September 29 | 6:00 p.m. | at Delta State | No. 11 | | | W 30-21 | 5,678 |
October 6 | 6:00 p.m. | at North Alabama* | No. 11 | | Lion Vision | W 24-19 | 6,811 |
October 13 | 6:00 p.m. | No. 4 West Georgia![dagger](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Dagger-14-plain.png) | No. 10 | - Blue Wahoos Stadium
- Pensacola, FL
| ESPN3 | L 7-27 | 6,838 |
October 20 | 4:00 p.m. | Florida Tech | No. 17 | - Blue Wahoos Stadium
- Pensacola, FL
| BLAB TV | L 28-30 | 5,191 |
October 27 | 12:00 p.m. | at North Greenville | | | BLAB TV | W 26-10 | 2,687 |
November 3 | 2:00 p.m. | No. 7 Valdosta State | | - Blue Wahoos Stadium
- Pensacola, FL
| ESPN3 | L 21-48 | 5,893 |
November 10 | 2:00 p.m. | West Alabama | | | | L 7-45 | 4,303 |
- *Non-conference game
Homecoming- Rankings from AFCA Poll released prior to the game
- All times are in Central time
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- Schedule Source:[3]
Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
— = Not ranked RV = Received votes ( ) = First-place votes | Week |
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Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Final |
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AFCA | 2 | 2 (6) | 13 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 17 | RV | — | — | — | — |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Eagles | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
Argonauts | 6 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 19 |
At Midwestern State
[edit] | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Argonauts | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 17 |
Mustangs | 0 | 3 | 14 | 21 | 38 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Hawks | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
Argonauts | 20 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 51 |
At Mississippi College
[edit] | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Argonauts | 3 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 34 |
Choctaws | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 21 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Argonauts | 3 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 30 |
Statesmen | 7 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Argonauts | 3 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 24 |
Lions | 7 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 19 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Wolves | 3 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 27 |
Argonauts | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Panthers | 3 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Argonauts | 14 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 28 |
At North Greenville
[edit] | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Argonauts | 7 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 26 |
Crusaders | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Blazers | 14 | 3 | 7 | 24 | 48 |
Argonauts | 0 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 21 |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Argonauts | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Tigers | 16 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 45 |
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