2020 Florida A&M Rattlers football team
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| Conference | Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference |
| Record | 0–0 (0–0 MEAC) |
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| Offensive coordinator | Alex Jackson (3rd season) |
| Defensive coordinator | Ralph Street (3rd season) |
| Home stadium | Bragg Memorial Stadium (Capacity: 25,500) |
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| Delaware State | 2 | – | 2 | 2 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Howard* | 0 | – | 2 | 0 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| South Carolina State | 2 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2020 Florida A&M Rattlers football team will represented Florida A&M University in the 2020 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Rattlers will be led by third-year head coach Willie Simmons. They will play their home games at Bragg Memorial Stadium and are a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC).
On July 16, 2020, the MEAC announced that it would cancel its fall sports seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The league has not ruled out the possibility of playing in the spring.[1] The schedule below is as it appeared at the time of the cancellation.
Previous season
The Rattlers finished the 2019 season 9–2, 7–1 in MEAC play to finish with the best overall record in the MEAC and across all HBCU schools. However, in May 2019, Florida A&M was banned from 2019 postseason play,[2] so could not compete in the Celebration Bowl or for a MEAC championship.
Schedule
Florida A&M had a game scheduled against Southern to be played September 12, but that contest was cancelled on June 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] A replacement game against Jackson State was scheduled on June 25.[4]
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | ||
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| September 6 | 7:00 p.m. | vs. Albany State* | ||||||
| September 12 | at Jackson State* | |||||||
| September 19 | 6:00 p.m. | South Carolina State | ||||||
| September 26 | 6:00 p.m. | Norfolk State |
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| October 3 | at North Carolina Central | |||||||
| October 17 | at North Carolina A&T | |||||||
| October 24 | 4:00 p.m. | Morgan State |
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| October 31 | 2:00 p.m. | at Delaware State | ||||||
| November 7 | at UCF* | |||||||
| November 14 | at Howard | |||||||
| November 21 | vs. Bethune–Cookman | |||||||
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References
- ^ "MEAC suspends all fall sports for indefinite period". ESPN.com. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ "NCAA Hits FAMU Athletics With Penalties Over Ineligible Student Athletes". wfsu.org. May 22, 2019. Retrieved March 28, 2020.
- ^ Witz, Billy (17 June 2020). "First Cancellations Emerge for Major College Football". The New York Times. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
- ^ Wilmer, Brian (25 June 2020). "FAMU adds Jackson State to 2020 football schedule". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "2020 Florida A&M Football Schedule". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved March 28, 2020.