South Alabama·Sun Belt

2017 — The Correction

2017 is a losing-side chapter for South Alabama. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.

Record 4-8
Final result Losing season
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -6.5 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L @ Ole Miss 27-47 L vs Okla St 7-44 W vs Alab A&M 45-0 L vs Idaho 23-29 L @ Loui Tec 16-34 W @ Troy 19-8 W vs UL Mon 33-23 L @ Geor Sta 13-21 L vs Louisi 14-19 W vs Arka Sta 24-19 L @ Geor Sou 0-52 L @ New Sta 17-22

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2017.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2017 season's largest margin: South Alabama 45, Alabama A&M 0. A 45-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: South Alabama 0, Georgia Southern 52. A 52-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Jags"
— South Alabama fanbase voice · 2017· synthesized
What it meant

2017 sits in South Alabama's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.