TIGER TIME: 2018 Savannah State Football Season Preview

SAVANNAH, Georgia -- On Thursday night in Birmingham, Alabama, the 2018 Savannah State Tiger football team will begin finding out what it’s really made of. Under the direction of third-year head coach Erik Raeburn, Savannah State (3-8 overall in 2017, 3-5 in MEAC) is set to start its farewell tour through the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

The school decided in April 2017 that it would move back down to the NCAA’s Division II following the 2018 school year. Savannah State first joined Division I as a full member in 2002, and joined the MEAC in 2010.

“This is our last shot to really show that we belong in the MEAC,” Raeburn said at the conference’s Media Day earlier this summer.

With this being their last shot playing DI football within their own conference, the Tigers are eager to prove their work to try and turn around a program that had gone 1-21 in the two seasons immediately preceding Raeburn’s arrival, was worth it.

“Our program now revolves around commitment and discipline,” Raeburn said after a practice last week when asked to describe what went into his culture change philosophies when he took the job three years ago. “I don’t feel like we had much of that when I first got here so we tried really hard to instill that in our guys.

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