The Citadel·Southern

2018 — The 2018 Season

The Citadel's 2018 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+ -5.6 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L @ Wofford 21-28 L vs Chatta 28-29 W @ Mercer 38-31 L @ Towson 27-44 L vs East Sta 23-26 W @ VMI 34-32 L vs Furman 17-28 W @ West Car 38-24 W vs Samford 42-27 L @ Alabama 17-50 W vs Char Sou 43-14
Defining moments
The statement

The 2018 season's largest margin: The Citadel 43, Charleston Southern 14. A 29-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: The Citadel 17, Alabama 50. A 33-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Bulldogs"
— The Citadel fanbase voice · 2018· synthesized
What it meant

2018 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.