The Ultimate GSU Fan Guide

Two helmets. One player. Seven coaches. When I arrived at Georgia State as your new Director of Athletics in March of 2009, we knew we needed to build a football program from the bottom up in just over a year. What a ride it's been!

From graduate assistants to coaches, trainers to senior staff, our Athletics department has worked around the clock to build a practice field, recruit top athletes, hire great coaches and mold a group of young men into a unified team. You will be very proud to see the results on Sept. 2.

Coach Bill Curry, with his signature class and grace, will lead this team onto the field, committed with the following words:

We are the Georgia State Football Panthers.
We love to play football!
We respect everyone. We fear no one.
We'll play anybody, anywhere, anytime.

The coaches are ready. Our team is ready. Now, all we need is you, the great alumni of this great University for this historic moment in GSU history.

Come support us. Come cheer for us. Come share in the excitement. We have put together this fan guide and poster as a primer for the kick-off. In it, you will learn everything you need to know about being the ultimate GSU football fan, because...

YOU are the Georgia State Panthers! See you on Sept. 2!

Cordially,

Cheryl L. Levick

Director of Athletics

9/2
SHORTER UNIVERSITY
Location: Rome, Ga.
Conference: Mid-South Conference (NAIA)
2009 Record: 6-5

9/11
LAMBUTH UNIVERSITY
Location: Jackson, Tenn.
Conference: Mid-South Conference (NAIA)
2009 Record: 12-1, MSC West Division champs

9/18
JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY
Location: Jacksonville, Ala.
Conference: Ohio Valley Conference Football Championship Subdivision (FCS)
2009 Record: 8-3

10/2
MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY
Location: Morehead, Ky.
Conference: Pioneer Football League (FCS)
2009 Record: 3-8

10/9
SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY
Location: Savannah, Ga.
Conference: Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (FCS)
2009 Record: 2-8

10/23
@ OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY 
Location: Norfolk, Va.
Conference: Colonial Athletic Association (FCS) (Beginning in 2011)
2009 Record: 9-2
*This is the Monarchs' second season of football

10/30
@ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA
Location: Mobile, Ala.
Conference: Sun-Belt Conference (FCS) (Beginning in 2013)
2009 Record: 7-0
*This is the Jaguars' second season of football

11/6
LAMAR UNIVERSITY
Location: Beaumont, Texas
Conference: Southland Conference (FCS)(beginning in 2011)
2009 Record: N/A
*This will be the Cardinals' first year of football since 1989

11/18
@ THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA 
Location: Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Conference: Southeastern Conference (Football Bowl Subdivision)
2009 Record: 12-0
*The Crimson Tide are the defending Division I college football champions.