The Citadel·Southern

2017 — The 2017 Season

The Citadel's 2017 season (5-6) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 5-6
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -8.1 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Newberry 31-14 W @ Presby 48-7 W @ East Sta 31-25 L @ Samford 14-35 L vs Mercer 14-24 L vs Wofford 16-20 W @ Chatta 20-14 W vs VMI 21-3 L vs West Car 19-31 L @ Furman 20-56 L @ Clemson 3-61
Defining moments
The statement

The 2017 season's largest margin: The Citadel 48, Presbyterian 7. A 41-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: The Citadel 3, Clemson 61. A 58-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Bulldogs"
— The Citadel fanbase voice · 2017· synthesized
What it meant

2017 is a middle chapter for The Citadel — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.