2020–21 NCAA Division II football season

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The 2020–21 NCAA Division II football season was the component of the 2020 college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division II level in the United States. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, only a few games were played during the traditional fall season.[1] For other teams that chose to play during the 2020–21 school year, the regular season began on February 27, 2021, and culminated on April 25.[2][3]

The season concluded with the end of the regular season, as the playoffs and championship game were not held due to the pandemic.

Conference changes and new programs[edit]

Membership changes[edit]

Conference standings[edit]

Only four conferences (GLVC, G-MAC, Mountain East and SAC), plus independents (Barton and Erskine) decided to play the season, all of them decided to play a spring schedule. GAC,[10]GLIAC,[11]GNAC,[12]Gulf South,[13]Lone Star,[14]MIAA, PSAC,[15]RMAC and SIAC[16] cancelled their football season, but some of their teams decided to play. It does not count games designated as exhibition/scrimmage, it counts only official games in school’s statistics.

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Super Region 1[edit]

2020 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
Shepherd   –     1 – 0  
Gannon   –     1 – 3  
Mercyhurst   –     0 – 2  
  • Notes: Due to COVID-19, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference suspended the fall 2020 football season. The conference also announced no in-conference competition for spring 2021 play. Schools scheduled own games if desired to play.
    Bloomsburg, California (PA), Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, IUP, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Millersville, Seton Hill, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester opted out of the spring season.

Super Region 2[edit]

Super Region 3[edit]

2020 Great American Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
East Central   –     2 – 0  
Southern Nazarene   –     0 – 3  
  • Notes: Due to COVID-19, the Great American Conference suspended the fall 2020 football season. The conference also announced no in-conference competition for spring 2021 play. Schools scheduled own games if desired to play.
    Arkansas Tech, Arkansas–Monticello, Harding, Henderson State, NW Oklahoma State, Oklahoma Baptist, Ouachita Baptist, SE Oklahoma State, Southern Arkansas and SW Oklahoma State opted out of the spring season.

    Southern Nazarene counted all their games as exhibition, while East Central and a few others teams that played Southern Nazarene did not, and counted their game in statistics records.

Super Region 4[edit]

Conferences that did not play[edit]

The following conferences did not hold a football season in fall 2020 or spring 2021.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pekale, Zach (November 21, 2020). “2020 DII football schedule: Dates, times, matchups”. NCAA.com. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  2. ^ “Historic Spring College Football Season Set to Begin”. National Football Foundation. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  3. ^ “More Than 300 College Football Teams Are Preparing For A Spring Season”. Forbes. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  4. ^ “NCAA DII Collegiate Football Is Coming to Barton”. Barton College. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  5. ^ “Erskine Bringing Back Football for 2020 Season”. Erskine College. August 24, 2018. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  6. ^ “Florida Tech cuts football program, announces layoffs due to COVID-19 impacts”. Florida Today. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  7. ^ Tollefson, Elizabeth (December 10, 2019). “UMN Crookston Discontinues Golden Eagle Football Program”. Crookston, Minnesota. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
  8. ^ Zimmer, Matt (December 10, 2019). “St. Cloud State University cutting its football program”. Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  9. ^ “Ohio’s Urbana University to close due to coronavirus challenges, low enrollment”. The Columbus Dispatch. Archived from the original on October 2, 2021. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
  10. ^ “MSWOSU, GAC announce spring sports plans”. Weatherford Daily News. November 18, 2020. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  11. ^ “GLIAC suspends all fall sports; no football for Grand Valley, Ferris, Wayne State, others”. Detroit Free Press. August 12, 2020. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  12. ^ a b Robertson, Maddie (July 14, 2020). “Two conferences have cancelled their planned Spring 2021 seasons”. Footballscoop. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  13. ^ “GSC status update of football, soccer and volleyball”. Valdosta Daily Times. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  14. ^ “Lone Star Conference will not sponsor spring football championship”. Dave Campbell’s Texas Football. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  15. ^ “PSAC Announces Changes to Championship Schedules in 2021”. Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. November 11, 2020. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  16. ^ “SIAC ANNOUNCES RETURN TO PLAY PLANS FOR 2021”. Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  17. ^ “NE10 Statement on Cancellation of NCAA DII Fall Championships”. NE-10.org. January 13, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  18. ^ Zimmer, Matt. “With no formal NSIC spring football season, teams focus on fall”. Watertown Public Opinion. Retrieved December 17, 2021.


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