The 2019 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represented the University of Delaware as a member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) during the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Led by third-year head coach Danny Rocco, the Fightin' Blue Hens compiled an overall record of 5–7 with a mark of 3–5 in conference play, tying for ninth place in the CAA. The team played home games at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Delaware. The stadium underwent renovations prior to the 2019 season.

Preseason

CAA poll In the CAA preseason poll released on July 23, 2019, the Fightin' Blue Hens were predicted to finish in fifth place.

Preseason All–CAA team The Fightin' Blue Hens had two players selected to the preseason all-CAA team.

Offense

Mario Farinella – OL

Special teams

Nick Pritchard – P

Schedule Delaware scheduled 12 games in the 2019 season instead of the 11 normally allowed for FCS programs. Under a standard provision of NCAA rules, all FCS teams are allowed to schedule 12 regular-season games in years in which the period starting with Labor Day weekend and ending with the last Saturday of November contains 14 Saturdays.

Coaching staff Danny Rocco Head coach 3rd Wake Forest (1984) Jared Ambrose Offensive coordinator 3rd Shepherd (2007) Chris Cosh Defensive coordinator/defensive backs 3rd Virginia Tech (1984) Bill Cubit Assistant head coach/running backs 1st Delaware (1973) Levern Belin Defensive line coach 3rd Wake Forest (1991) Holman Copeland Assistant coach - Corners 1st Jalen Kindle Assistant coach 2nd Delaware (2017) Dave Legg Assistant coach – Outside linebackers/special teams 1st Gregory Meyer Tight ends coach 2nd Buffalo State (2009) Bill Polin Offensive line coach/recruiting coordinator 3rd Colby (2000) Clint Sintim Outside linebackers coach 3rd Virginia (2009) Alex Wood Wide receivers coach 2nd Iowa (1978) Tony Palmieri Video coordinator 3rd North Florida (2009) Carl Kotz Director of football operations 3rd Clemson (2003) Chris Stewart Strength and conditioning 3rd Western Carolina (1998) Felicia Bergman Director of Football Advising 3rd Colorado State (2009) Jude Moser Administrative Assistant 10th University of Delaware (1984)

Game summaries

Delaware State

At Rhode Island

North Dakota State

Penn

At Pittsburgh

At Elon

New Hampshire

Richmond

At Towson

Albany

Stony Brook

At Villanova

Ranking movements

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