Year: | 2007 |
Team: | Delaware State Hornets |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference |
Short Conf: | MEAC |
Tsnrank: | 15 |
Record: | 10–2 |
Conf Record: | 9–0 |
Head Coach: | Al Lavan |
Hc Year: | 4th |
Def Coach: | Rayford Petty |
Dc Year: | 1st |
Stadium: | Alumni Stadium |
Champion: | Black college national champion MEAC champion |
Bowl: | NCAA Division I First Round |
Bowl Result: | L 7–44 vs. Delaware |
The 2007 Delaware State Hornets football team represented Delaware State University as a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) in the 2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Al Lavan and played their home games at Alumni Stadium. They finished the season with 10–2 overall, won the MEAC title with a 9–0 mark in conference play and lost to Delaware in the First Round of the NCAA Division I playoffs. The 2007 Hornets squad won the black college football national championship as awarded by the American Sports Wire and as the national runner-up behind Tuskegee as awarded by SBN.[1] [2]