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Game Central | Savannah State Football vs. West Alabama | Gulf Coast Challenge

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GAME CENTRAL

Savannah State Tigers (0-0)
VS.
West Alabama Tigers (1-0)


TIME: 4 p.m. CST/5 p.m. EST, March 13, 2021
LOCATION: Mobile, Ala. | Ladd-Peebles Stadium
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West Alabama Game Notes: https://bit.ly/3t9FY8j


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MOBILE, Ala. – Saturday, March 13, 2021 will mark 496 days since the Savannah State football team last played a game.

After losing their fall 2020 season to the pandemic, The Tigers have scheduled two games this spring. They will open the spring season against West Alabama at the annual Gulf Coast Challenge on March 13 and then face Middle Georgia State at home on March 27. The two games will count in the record book as the 2020-21 season.

It will be the first time Savannah State has faced West Alabama in football and the first time the Tigers have played in the Gulf Coast Challenge.
Kick-off is set for 4 p.m. CST/5 p.m. EST at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama. Fans can enjoy the game through a free radio broadcast on the Tiger Sports Network, exclusively at ssuathletics.com.

On November 9, 2019, Savannah State football capped an historic season, walking off the field in Jacksonville, Fla. after a 49-19 rout of Edward Waters, with a 7-3 overall record and a 5-0 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) mark.  

The 2019 Tigers were the first winning football team at Savannah State since 1998 and the first to go flawless in conference action since the storied Bill Davis and Shannon Sharpe 1989 team.

Over the fall of 2020, unable to play a game, the program instead went to work on the practice field. For 10 weeks, Savannah State football introduced over 30 new players to their schemes culminating with a Blue vs. Orange scrimmage in late November.

"It's like making your dinner and never getting to eat it," second-year Head Football Coach Shawn Quinn said after the practice season.  

After a year and a half without a game, Quinn, his staff and players, are anxious to and ready for the field. They face in West Alabama one of the best football programs in Division II. The West Alabama Tigers enter Saturday after a 27-17 win over Limestone on March 6. They too have only a two-game season this spring.

The 2021 Savannah State football team will look quite different than the 2019 team. Although several of their key starters have returned, a number have moved on, graduated, or will miss Saturday's game due to academic issues or COVID-19 positive tests. All of Savannah State's student-athlete population have remained healthy during the pandemic due to rigorous protocols established by the administration.

ABOUT SAVANNAH STATE FOOTBALL
Savannah State football began on Thanksgiving Day 1902 when Georgia Industrial College won its only game of the year. Through the subsequent 100 years, Savannah State football won titles on the Division II and III levels, its most successful years coming as a Division II member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) from 1981-2000. Legendary coach William R. "Bill" Davis led the Tigers through most of this era, earning the program's best records of 8-2 and 8-1 in 1988, '89, respectively. Davis coached NFL Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe during those successful years.After 17 years as a NCAA Division I program, Savannah State football moved back to NCAA Division II, rejoining the SIAC ahead of the 2019 season. Shawn Quinn was hired as the 26th head coach in the program's history on March 7, 2019. He found success immediately. In his first year, the Tigers finished the historic 2019 season 7-3 overall and 5-0 in SIAC play.


 
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