2020 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team

The 2020 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team will represent Prairie View A&M University in the 2020 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Panthers will be led by third-year head coach Eric Dooley and play their home games at Panther Stadium at Blackshear Field in Prairie View, Texas as members of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).

2020 Prairie View A&M Panthers football
ConferenceSouthwestern Athletic Conference
DivisionWest Division
2020 record0–0 (0–0 SWAC)
Head coach
Home stadiumPanther Stadium at Blackshear Field
(Capacity: 15,000)
2020 Southwestern Athletic Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
East Division
Alabama A&M   –      –  
Alabama State   –      –  
Alcorn State   –      –  
Jackson State   –      –  
Mississippi Valley State   –      –  
West Division
Arkansas–Pine Bluff   –      –  
Grambling State   –      –  
Prairie View A&M *   –      –  
Southern   –      –  
Texas Southern   –      –  
  • Note: SWAC playing a spring conference-only schedule (February–May 2021) due to COVID-19 pandemic.
    * – Ineligible for FCS postseason play due to NCAA sanctions
As of January 19, 2021; Rankings from STATS Poll

On July 20, 2020, the Southwestern Athletic Conference announced that it would not play fall sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes the football program.[1] The conference is formalizing plans to conduct a competitive schedule for football during the 2021 spring semester.

Previous season
Main article: 2019 Prairie View A&M Panthers football team

The Panthers finished the 2019 season 6–5, 4–3 in SWAC play to finish in third place in the West Division.

Schedule

Due to the SWAC's postponement of the 2020 football season to spring 2021, games against Louisiana Tech, Northwestern State, and TCU were canceled.[2] The SWAC released updated spring schedules on August 17.[3]

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
February 27 vs. Grambling State
March 6 Texas Southern
March 20 Alabama A&M
  • Panther Stadium
  • Prairie View, TX
March 27 at Jackson State
April 10 Southern
  • Panther Stadium
  • Prairie View, TX
April 24 at Arkansas–Pine Bluff

[4]

References
  1. Stephenson, Creg (20 July 2020). "SWAC becomes latest FCS conference to postpone 2020 football season to spring". AL.com. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  2. Visser, David (July 21, 2020). "SWAC Suspends Fall Football Season". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  3. "SWAC Releases 2021 Spring Football Schedule". swac.org. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  4. "2020 Prairie View A&M Football Schedule". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
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