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GSC Football Weekly Release - Week 5

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Saturday, Oct. 5 Time (CT) Watch
3/3 Valdosta State at Shorter 11 am YouTube
North Greenville at Benedict 2 pm No stream available
Mississippi College at West Florida 4 pm FloFootball
Chowan at 20/NR Delta State 6 pm FloFootball


GSC ON FLOSPORTS

  • FloSports will be the exclusive home for all GSC games for the 2024-25 season. In August, the conference announced the addition of four sports (soccer, baseball, softball, lacrosse) to media package. On Sept. 24, FloSports announced that it will launch FloCollege on Oct. 15. Visit gscsports.org/flosportsFAQ for more info.

CONFERENCE PLAY IN FULL SWING

  • Through two weeks of conference action, seven of eight teams have played at least once.
  • Delta State’s conference-opener last week at Erskine and the top-25 matchup between Valdosta State and West Alabama were canceled due to the effects of Hurricane Helene.

GSC IN NON-CONFERENCE PLAY

  • Through Week 4 of the 2024 season, the GSC is 11-10 in non-conference games.
  • The GSC is 107-62 record in the regular season non-conference games, since 2016. It has tallied 15 or more wins four times (19 in 2021, 16 in 2022, 15 in 2018 and 2016). 
  • Since 2015, the GSC is 105-36 (.743) against Super Region 2 teams in all match-ups. 
  • Week 5 features two non-conference games, including against Super Region 2 opponents, as Valdosta State travels to Shorter (2-0) and North Greenville is slated to visit Benedict (2-2).    

THREE TEAMS IN THE COACHES POLL

  • The GSC has three teams in the AFCA D2 Coaches Poll this week (Sept. 30)–No. 3 Valdosta State, No. 15 West Alabama and No. 20 Delta State. 
  • This is the third consecutive week Valdosta State comes in at No. 3 and is among the top-5 since the Week 1 poll in 2022 (Sept. 5, 2022). West Alabama makes its first appearance among the top-15 since being ranked No. 15 in the Week 7 poll in 2021 (Oct. 18, 2021).
  • This is the fourth time in five poll releases this season two GSC teams are inside the top-15.
  • The GSC has had a team appear in 305 of 308 AFCA D2 Top 25 polls, dating back to 2000. Two or more teams have been among the D2 Coaches Top 25, 286 times. A GSC team has spent 66 weeks at No. 1 and among the top-five 213 times.

TWO TEAMS IN THE D2FOOTBALL.com POLL

  • Two GSC teams were ranked in the D2Football.com poll this week (Sept. 30)–No. 3 Valdosta State and No. 15 West Alabama.

GSC CELEBRATES 54TH SEASON

  • The 2024 season is the 54th season of Gulf South Conference football. The league was formed as football-only conference in 1970 as the Mid-South Conference, before renaming itself to the Gulf South Conference prior to the 1971 campaign.