The 2018 Mississippi College Choctaws football team represented
Mississippi College during the
2018 NCAA Division II football season
The 2018 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level, began on August 30, 2018, and ended with the Division II champio ...
. They were led by fifth-year head coach
John Bland. The Choctaws played their home games at
Robinson-Hale Stadium
The Mississippi College Choctaws football team represents Mississippi College. The school's teams are known as the Choctaws. Its major rivals are Millsaps College in nearby Jackson and Delta State in Cleveland, Mississippi in the Delta. After a ...
and were members of the
Gulf South Conference (GSC).
Preseason
Gulf South Conference coaches poll
On August 2, 2018, the Gulf South Conference released their preseason coaches poll with the Choctaws predicted to finish eighth place in the conference.
Preseason All-Gulf South Conference Team
The Choctaws had one player at one position selected to the preseason all-Gulf South Conference team.
Special teams
Chakel Gates – RS
Schedule
Mississippi College 2018 football schedule consists of six home and five away games in the regular season. The Choctaws will host GSC foes
Valdosta State
Valdosta State University (VSU or Valdosta State) is a public university in Valdosta, Georgia. It is one of the four comprehensive universities in the University System of Georgia. , VSU had over 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students. VSU a ...
,
West Alabama
The University of West Alabama (UWA) is a public university in Livingston, Alabama. Founded in 1835, the school began as a church-supported school for young women called Livingston Female Academy. The original Board of Trustees of Livingston Fe ...
,
West Florida,
West Georgia
The University of West Georgia is a public university in Carrollton, Georgia. The university offers a satellite campus in Newnan, Georgia, select classes at its Douglasville Center, and off-campus Museum Studies classes at the Atlanta History ...
, and will travel to
Delta State,
Florida Tech,
North Greenville, and
Shorter.
The Choctaws will host two of the three non-conference games against
Clark Atlanta
Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark Atlanta is the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in the Southern United States. Founde ...
from the
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and
Southwest Baptist Bearcats football from the
Great Lakes Valley Conference, and will travel to
North Alabama, which is a
FCS Independent
NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision independent schools are four-year institutions in the United States whose football programs are not part of a football conference. This means that FCS independents are not required to schedule each ...
team.
Two of the eleven games will be broadcast on
ESPN3
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, as part of the Gulf South Conference Game of the Week.
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The game between North Greenville and Mississippi College was cancelled in advance of the arrival of
Hurricane Florence.
The game will not be rescheduled.
Rankings
Game summaries
Clark Atlanta
Southwest Baptist
West Florida
Valdosta State
At Florida Tech
At North Alabama
At Shorter
West Georgia
West Alabama
At Delta State
References
Mississippi College
Mississippi College Choctaws football seasons
Mississippi College Choctaws football
The Mississippi College Choctaws football team represents Mississippi College. The school's teams are known as the Choctaws. Its major rivals are Millsaps College in nearby Jackson and Delta State in Cleveland, Mississippi in the Delta. After a ...
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