2018 College Football Team Previews: Texas Southern
Texas Southern Tigers
Location: Houston, TX
Coach: Vincent Dancy (16-31) 3rd Season at TSU
Stadium: BBVA Compass Stadium (Capacity: 22,000)
CSJ Projections:
6th: SWAC (4th in West Division)
15th: HBCU
18th: Texas
104th: FCS
234th: Division I
2017 In A Sentence: Texas Southern finished nearly last in the SWAC in all statistical categories that resulted in finishing just 2-9 overall and 2-5 in league play.
Biggest Shoes to Fill: WR Darvin Kidsy was the team’s leading receiver last year with 37 receptions for 537 yards and given the team is unknown at the quarterback position (two possibilities of G5 Tulane transfer Glen Cuiellette and part time starter Dominic DeLira).
Key Player: The Tigers should be headed on defense by a tackling machine in junior LB Julian Marcantel, who had 92 stops last year and added 8.5 of those for a loss.
Fearless Prediction: With a number of transfers, the Tigers are a bit of an unknown how they will gel. But on paper, the Tigers should be better than the two wins they gained last year but middle of the SWAC West is probably as high as TSU will finish this year.
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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