2018 College Football Team Previews: Savannah State
Savannah State Tigers
Location: Savannah, Georgia
Coach: Erik Raeburn (141-54, overall, 6-15, SSU) 3rd Season @ SSU
Stadium: Theodore A. Wright Stadium (Capacity: 8,500)
CSJ Projections:
8th: MEAC
7th: Georgia
16th: HBCU
106th: FCS
236th: Division I
2017 In A Sentence: With a very young team, the Tigers improved to 3-5 within the MEAC and 3-8 overall and had won three of its last four contests–the second straight season with 3 wins.
Biggest Shoes to Fill: WR Derek Kirkland led the team with four touchdown receptions and was second on the team in yardage with 232 yards.
Key Player: DE Stefan Banks was seemingly a one-man wrecking crew last year in his freshman season. The now-sophomore led the MEAC with 10 sacks and was second in the league with 18 tackles for a loss.
Fearless Prediction: This will be the Tigers last Division I season before moving down to the Division II ranks in 2019. This very well could be the best team of the Division I era in the team’s history and very well could exceed expectations and finish in the top half of the MEAC standings.
Originally from LaMoure, North Dakota, Kent is a 1996 graduate of North Dakota State University. His prior writing experience is over 15 years having previously worked with D2football.com, I-AA.org, and College Sporting News before coming to College Sports Journal in 2016. His main focus is college football is the Missouri Valley Football Conference within the Division I FCS. And in 2017, he began also to look at the FBS Group of Five conferences of the American Athletic, Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West, and Sun Belt.
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