The 2022 Northwestern State Demons football team represented

Northwestern State University Northwestern State University of Louisiana (NSU) is a public university primarily situated in Natchitoches, Louisiana, with a nursing campus in Shreveport and general campuses in Leesville/Fort Polk and Alexandria. It is a part of the Univer ...

as a member of the

Southland Conference The Southland Conference, abbreviated as SLC, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it pa ...

during the

2022 NCAA Division I FCS football season The 2022 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States, was organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level. The regular season ...

. Led by fifth-year head coach

Brad Laird Brad Laird is an American football coach who is currently the head football coach at Northwestern State University. He previously served as an assistant football coach at Northwestern State, an assistant football coach at Stephen F. Austin State ...

, the Demons played their home games at

Harry Turpin Stadium Harry Turpin Stadium is a 15,971-seat multi-purpose stadium in Natchitoches, Louisiana. It opened in 1975 and is home to the Northwestern State University Demons football team. History Donald Gray Horton (1945–2013), a Coushatta lawyer and phil ...

Natchitoches, Louisiana Natchitoches ( ; french: link=no, Les Natchitoches) is a small city and the parish seat of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. Established in 1714 by Louis Juchereau de St. Denis as part of French Louisiana, the community was named ...

Preseason

Preseason poll

The Southland Conference released their preseason poll on July 20, 2022. The Demons were picked to finish fifth in the conference.

Preseason All–Southland Teams

The Southland Conference announced the 2022 preseason all-conference football team selections on July 13, 2022. Northwestern State had a total of 5 players selected. Offense ''2nd Team'' *Scooter Adams – Running Back, RS-JR Defense ''1st Team'' *Shemar Bartholomew – Defensive Back, SR *PJ Herrington – Defensive Back, SR ''2nd Team'' *Isaiah Longino – Defensive Lineman, SR *Jomard Valsin – Defensive Lineman, SR

Schedule

Northwestern State finalized their 2022 schedule on January 17, 2022.

Game summaries

At No. 3 Montana

Vs. Grambling State

At Southern Miss

Lamar

Statistics

Nicholls

At Eastern Illinois

At Houston Christian

No. 16 Southeast Missouri State

At Texas A&M-Commerce

At No. 25 Southeastern Louisiana

No. 5 Incarnate Word

Personnel

References

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Northwestern State Demons The Northwestern State University athletic teams go by the Demons, with women's athletic teams generally called the Lady Demons, and its mascot is Vic the Demon. Once a member of the SIAA conference, the school now competes in the Southland Conf ...

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