1970 Florence State Lions football team
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- Durell Mock (1st season)
| 1970 Florence State Lions football | |
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| Conference | Mid-South Athletic Conference |
| Record | 5–5 (1–4 MSAC) |
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| Home stadium | Braly Municipal Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 2 Jacksonville State $ | 5 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 10 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tennessee–Martin | 4 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Troy State | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Delta State | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Florence State | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Livingston | 0 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1970 Florence State Lions football team represented Florence State University—now known as the University of North Alabama—as a member of the Mid-South Athletic Conference (MSAC) during the 1970 NAIA Division I football season. Led by first-year head coach Durell Mock, the Lions compiled an overall record of 5–5 with a mark of 1–4 in conference play, placing fifth in the MSAC. Florence State played home game at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama.
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 12 | 7:30 p.m. | at Northwestern State* |
| L 21–42 | [1][2] | |
| September 19 | 7:30 p.m. | State College of Arkansas* |
| W 28–17 | [3] | |
| September 26 | 7:30 p.m. | at Delta State | L 13–26 | [4][5] | ||
| October 3 | 2:00 p.m. | at Livingston | W 21–14 | [6] | ||
| October 10 | at Arkansas Tech* |
| W 28–26 | [7][8] | ||
| October 17 | Henderson State* |
| W 30–20 | [9] | ||
| October 24 | 7:30 p.m. | Troy State |
| L 23–28 | [10] | |
| October 31 | 2:00 p.m. | Samford* |
| W 24–10 | ||
| November 14 | 1:30 p.m. | Tennessee–Martin |
| L 7–35 | [11] | |
| November 21 | 1:30 p.m. | at No. 15 Jacksonville State | L 28–55 | 13,000 | [12] | |
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Offseason
After the 1969 season, head coach Hal Self resigned from the position to take over the school's athletic director position full-time. Self had served as both head coach and athletic director in 1969 after the resignation of H.A. Flowers. Durell Mock, who had played under Self at Florence State from 1949 to 1952, was selected to become the second-ever head coach of the Lions.[13]
In the summer before the 1970 season, Florence State would leave the Alabama Collegiate Conference with Jacksonville State, Troy State, and Livingston to become charter members of the new Mid-South Athletic Conference.[15] This football-only conference would become the Gulf South Conference.[16]