The Eagles finished the regular season 8–4, 6–2 in Sun Belt play to finish in third place. In the Eagles' first ever bowl appearance, the Eagles defeated Bowling Green, 58–27, in the GoDaddy Bowl. Then he played for the Virginia Destroyers in the UFL. They were invited to the Camellia Bowl where they defeated Eastern Michigan. Lunsford played at Elbert County High School for legendary coach T. McFerrin. In year two, the Eagles overcame a 1-3 start, along with a slew of injuries and adversity, to win six of their final eight regular season games and qualify for a bowl game. While at Georgia College as an undergraduate, he served as a student assistant with Georgia Military College, beginning his career coaching the tight ends. The Eagles won the Sun Belt Conference championship outright in its first year as an FBS member. Irrelevant. [1] [2], Lunsford attended and played football at Elbert County High School in Elberton, GA. The Eagles competed as an FCS independent from 1984 until 1992 as the Eagles' main conference at the time, the Trans America Athletic Conference, did not sponsor football, and as a member of the Southern Conference from 1993 until 2013, winning 10 SoCon championships. Fourteen catches ranked among Georgia Southern’s big plays as the Eagle receiving corps contributed to one of the nation’s top offenses. The 2020 Georgia Southern Eagles football team will represent Georgia Southern University during the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The university offers 35 undergraduate majors and includes a school of nursing and graduate schools in education, criminal justice, and management. After working with the wide receivers in 2013, Lunsford worked two seasons with the tight ends and served as recruiting coordinator in 2014 and 2015. Robert Emory Lamb is an American college football coach and former player. As Chad Lunsford continues to build the Georgia Southern football team, he’s been afforded some additional security. While at Georgia College as an undergraduate, he served as a student assistant with Georgia Military College, beginning his career coaching the tight ends. The Yellow Jackets team competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. He was the head football coach at the University of Arkansas, a position he held from the 2018 season to the 2019 season. The Tigers boasted three of the nation’s top recruiting classes in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and that success translated to the field where Auburn claimed the 2010 BCS national championship, 2010 Southeastern Conference Championship and made appearances in two other bowl games. Friday, Georgia Southern announced a one-year contract extension for its head football coach. He was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2005. They were led by second year head coach Chad Lunsford. He was named the 10th full-time head coach in the modern era on Nov. 27, 2017. Over the previous four seasons, his tight ends contributed to the option ground game which led the FBS in rushing yards per game in both 2014 and 2015 and also led the FBS in rushing touchdowns in 2015.