American college football season
The 2019 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represented the University of Delaware as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) during the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season . Led by third-year head coach Danny Rocco , the Fightin' Blue Hens compiled an overall record of 5–7 with a mark of 3–5 in conference play, tying for ninth place in the CAA. The team played home games at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Delaware . The stadium underwent renovations prior to the 2019 season.
Preseason [ edit ] CAA poll [ edit ] In the CAA preseason poll released on July 23, 2019, the Fightin' Blue Hens were predicted to finish in fifth place.[1]
Predicted finish Team Votes (1st place) 1 James Madison 238 (20) 2 Towson 217 (3) 3 Maine 201 (1) 4 Elon 164 5 Delaware 162 6 Stony Brook 151 7 New Hampshire 109 8 Rhode Island 104 9 Villanova 84 10 Richmond 62 11 William & Mary 58 12 Albany 34
Preseason All–CAA team [ edit ] The Fightin' Blue Hens had two players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.[1]
Offense
Mario Farinella – OL
Special teams
Nick Pritchard – P
Schedule [ edit ] Delaware scheduled 12 games in the 2019 season instead of the 11 normally allowed for FCS programs.[2] Under a standard provision of NCAA rules, all FCS teams are allowed to schedule 12 regular-season games in years in which the period starting with Labor Day weekend and ending with the last Saturday of November contains 14 Saturdays.[3]
Date Time Opponent Rank Site TV Result Attendance 7:00 p.m. Delaware State * No. 22 FloSports W 31–1315,894 September 7 7:00 p.m. at Rhode Island No. 21 FloSports W 44–36 3OT 8,511 September 14 1:00 p.m. No. 1 North Dakota State * No. 18 Delaware Stadium Newark, DE NBCSP L 22–4714,489 September 21 1:00 p.m. Penn * No. 20 Delaware Stadium Newark, DE YouTube W 28–2711,782 September 28 12:30 p.m. at Pittsburgh * No. 20 ACCRSN L 14–1768,400 October 12 2:00 p.m. at Elon No. 15 FloSports L 7–425,572 October 19 1:00 p.m. No. 22 New Hampshire No. 24 Delaware Stadium Newark, DE FloSports W 16–1016,730 October 26 1:00 p.m. Richmond No. 19 Delaware Stadium Newark, DE FloSports L 25–3515,308 November 2 2:00 p.m. at No. 21 Towson FloSports L 24–315,522 November 9 1:00 p.m. Albany Delaware Stadium Newark, DE FloSports L 17–2113,742 November 16 1:00 p.m. Stony Brook Delaware Stadium Newark, DE FloSports W 17–1011,981 November 23 1:00 p.m. at No. 10 Villanova FloSports L 33–555,319 *Non-conference game HomecomingRankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time
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Coaching staff [ edit ] Name Position Year Alma mater Danny Rocco Head coach 3rd Wake Forest (1984) Jared Ambrose Offensive coordinator 3rd Shepherd (2007) Chris Cosh Defensive coordinator/defensive backs 3rd Virginia Tech (1984) Bill Cubit Assistant head coach/running backs 1st Delaware (1973) Levern Belin Defensive line coach 3rd Wake Forest (1991) Holman Copeland Assistant coach - Corners 1st Jalen Kindle Assistant coach 2nd Delaware (2017) Dave Legg Assistant coach – Outside linebackers/special teams 1st Gregory Meyer Tight ends coach 2nd Buffalo State (2009) Bill Polin Offensive line coach/recruiting coordinator 3rd Colby (2000) Clint Sintim Outside linebackers coach 3rd Virginia (2009) Alex Wood Wide receivers coach 2nd Iowa (1978) Tony Palmieri Video coordinator 3rd North Florida (2009) Carl Kotz Director of football operations 3rd Clemson (2003) Chris Stewart Strength and conditioning 3rd Western Carolina (1998) Felicia Bergman Director of Football Advising 3rd Colorado State (2009) Jude Moser Administrative Assistant 10th University of Delaware (1984)
Game summaries [ edit ] Delaware State [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Hornets 3 3 0 7 13 No. 22 Fightin' Blue Hens 3 13 9 6 31
At Rhode Island [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 OT 2OT 3OT Total No. 21 Fightin' Blue Hens 0 0 14 8 7 7 8 44 Rams 3 10 0 9 7 7 0 36
North Dakota State [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total No. 1 Bison 10 17 6 14 47 No. 18 Fightin' Blue Hens 5 0 3 14 22
1 2 3 4 Total Quakers 7 7 7 6 27 No. 20 Fightin' Blue Hens 7 0 14 7 28
At Pittsburgh [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total No. 20 Fightin' Blue Hens 0 7 7 0 14 Panthers 0 10 0 7 17
At Elon [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total No. 15 Fightin' Blue Hens 0 0 0 7 7 Phoenix 7 0 21 14 42
New Hampshire [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total No. 22 Wildcats 0 10 0 0 10 No. 24 Fightin' Blue Hens 0 10 3 3 16
Richmond [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Spiders 21 7 7 0 35 No. 19 Fightin' Blue Hens 7 3 15 0 25
At Towson [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Fightin' Blue Hens 7 7 7 3 24 No. 21 Tigers 7 17 0 7 31
1 2 3 4 Total Great Danes 7 7 0 7 21 Fightin' Blue Hens 0 17 0 0 17
Stony Brook [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Seawolves 0 10 0 0 10 Fightin' Blue Hens 7 3 0 7 17
At Villanova [ edit ] 1 2 3 4 Total Fightin' Blue Hens 7 10 0 16 33 No. 10 Wildcats 20 14 14 7 55
Ranking movements [ edit ] Ranking movementsLegend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking RV = Received votes Week Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Final STATS FCS 22 21 18 20 20 19 15 24 19 RV Coaches 23 21 18 20 19 18 15 24 19 RV
References [ edit ]
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