2020 Charleston Southern Buccaneers football team
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| Conference | Big South Conference |
| Record | 0–0 (0–0 Big South) |
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| Home stadium | Buccaneer Field (Capacity: 4,000) |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 10 Monmouth $^ | 3 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 17 Kennesaw State | 2 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charleston Southern | 2 | – | 2 | 2 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gardner–Webb | 0 | – | 2 | 2 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Robert Morris | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2020 Charleston Southern Buccaneers football team will represent Charleston Southern University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They will be led by second-year head coach Autry Denson and play their home games at Buccaneer Field. They will be members of the Big South Conference.
Previous season
The Buccaneers finished the 2019 season 6–6, 4–2 in Big South play to finish in third place.
Preseason
Polls
In June 2020, the Buccaneers were predicted to finish third in the Big South by a panel of media and head coaches.[1]
| Predicted finish | Team | Votes (1st place) |
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| 1 | Kennesaw State | 68 (8) |
| 2 | Monmouth | 57 (3) |
| 3 | Charleston Southern | 43 (1) |
| 4 | Campbell | 42 |
| 5 | Hampton | 23 |
| 6 | Gardner–Webb | 19 |
| — | North Alabama[i] | — |
- ^ North Alabama was not eligible for the preseason poll due to their transition to Division I.
Schedule
Charleston Southern had games scheduled against Monmouth, Hampton, and Arkansas, which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2][3][4]
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | ||
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| March 13 | 1:00 p.m. | at Kennesaw State | ||||||
| March 20 | 12:00 p.m. | Robert Morris | ||||||
| March 27 | at Monmouth | |||||||
| April 3 | Gardner–Webb |
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References
- ^ "Kennesaw State Voted 2020 Preseason Football Favorite". bigsouthsports.com. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
- ^ Hebert, Michael. "BIG SOUTH FOOTBALL: Hampton suspends sports for the fall". TimesDaily. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ Kelley, Kevin (27 July 2020). "Monmouth cancels 2020 football season due to COVID-19". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
- ^ Talty, John. "SEC moves to conference-only 2020 schedule, pushes back start of season". AL.com. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
- ^ "2020 Charleston Southern Football Schedule". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved November 22, 2020.