The 2018 Cal Poly Mustangs football team represented

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in the

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. The Mustangs were led by tenth-year head coach Tim Walsh and played their home games at

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. They were members of the

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. They finished the season 5–6, 4–4 in Big Sky play to finish in a tie for sixth place.

Previous season

The Mustangs finished the 2017 season 1–10, 1–7 in Big Sky play to finish in 12th place.

Preseason

Polls

On July 16, 2018 during the Big Sky Kickoff in

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, the Mustangs were predicted to finish in tenth place in the coaches poll and eleventh place in the media poll.

Preseason All-Conference Team

The Mustangs had one player selected to the Preseason All-Conference Team. Joe Protheroe – Sr. FB

Schedule

Despite also being a member of the Big Sky, the game vs. Weber State will be a non-conference game and will have no effect on the Big Sky standings.

Game summaries

At North Dakota State

Weber State

Brown

At Eastern Washington

Montana

At Sacramento State

UC Davis

At Northern Arizona

At Montana State

At Idaho State

Southern Utah

References

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Cal Poly Mustangs football The Cal Poly Mustangs are the football team representing California Polytechnic State University located in San Luis Obispo, California. The team plays its home games at Mustang Memorial Field, at the NCAA Division I FCS level in the Big Sky Conf ...