American college football season
The 2018 Indiana State Sycamores football team represented Indiana State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season . They were led by second-year head coach Curt Mallory and played their home games at Memorial Stadium . They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference . They finished the season 7–4, 5–3 in MVFC play to finish in a tie for third place. Despite being ranked in the top 25 at the end of the regular season, they were not selected to participate in the FCS Playoffs.
Preseason [ edit ] Preseason MVFC poll [ edit ] The MVFC released their preseason poll on July 29, 2018, with the Sycamores predicted to finish in last place.[1]
Predicted finish Team Votes (1st place) 1 North Dakota State 390 (39) 2 South Dakota State 270 3 Northern Iowa 258 4 Youngstown State 248 5 Illinois State 248 6 South Dakota 206 7 Western Illinois 163 8 Southern Illinois 139 9 Missouri State 90 10 Indiana State 41
Preseason All-MVFC Teams [ edit ] The Sycamores placed six players on the preseason all-MVFC teams.[2]
Offense
2nd team
Jerry Nunez – K
Defense
2nd team
Inoke Moala – DL
Derrek Tuszka – DL
Jonas Griffith – LB
Katrell Moss – LB
Rondell Green – DB
Schedule [ edit ] Date Time Opponent Site TV Result Attendance 7:00 p.m. Quincy * ESPN3 W 49–06,243 September 8 7:00 p.m. at Louisville * ACCN Extra L 7–3144,520 September 15 7:00 p.m. at Eastern Illinois * ESPN+ W 55–416,420 7:00 p.m. No. 23 Northern Iowa Memorial Stadium Terre Haute, IN ESPN3 L 0–335,487 October 6 7:00 p.m. at No. 3 South Dakota State ESPN+ L 51–54 OT 10,318 October 13 2:00 p.m. Missouri State Memorial Stadium Terre Haute, IN ESPN+ L 26–296,721 October 20 3:00 p.m. at Southern Illinois ESPN+ W 24–216,435 October 27 2:00 p.m. at Youngstown State ESPN+ W 43–1710,870 November 3 1:00 p.m. South Dakota Memorial Stadium Terre Haute, IN ESPN+ W 51–48 3OT 5,816 November 10 1:00 p.m. No. 23 Illinois State Memorial Stadium Terre Haute, IN ESPN3 W 28–234,016 November 17 2:00 p.m. at Western Illinois ESPN3 W 15–131,813 *Non-conference game HomecomingRankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time
Game summaries [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Hawks 0 0 0 0 0 Sycamores 14 7 14 14 49
At Louisville [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Sycamores 7 0 0 0 7 Cardinals 7 0 7 17 31
At Eastern Illinois [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Sycamores 17 14 14 10 55 Panthers 20 0 7 14 41
Northern Iowa [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total No. 23 Panthers 3 6 14 10 33 Sycamores 0 0 0 0 0
At South Dakota State [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Sycamores 10 7 7 24 48 No. 3 Jackrabbits 7 14 21 6 48
Missouri State [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Bears 7 14 0 8 29 Sycamores 0 10 7 9 26
At Southern Illinois [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Sycamores 7 7 10 0 24 Salukis 7 0 0 14 21
At Youngstown State [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Sycamores 3 13 7 20 43 Penguins 7 3 7 0 17
South Dakota [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 OT 2OT 3OT Total Coyotes 7 7 7 10 7 7 3 48 Sycamores 14 7 0 10 7 7 6 51
Illinois State [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total No. 23 Redbirds 10 0 7 6 23 Sycamores 0 21 0 7 28
At Western Illinois [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Sycamores 3 6 3 3 15 Leathernecks 3 0 10 0 13
Ranking movements [ edit ] Ranking movementsLegend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking — = Not ranked RV = Received votes Week Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Final STATS FCS — — — — — — — — — — — RV 25 RV Coaches — — — — — — — — — — RV 24 22 25
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