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Nearly 30 FCS teams have opted out of playing spring football season
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With the FCS level of college football deciding not to play a fall schedule, teams across the country are now preparing for a spring season with games scheduled to begin in February. But not everyone plans to play.
According to Hero Sports, 29 FCS teams have opted out of the 2021 spring football season because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. That means that 98 programs do plan to play football in the coming months.
The entire Ivy League (8 teams) will not play football this spring. That includes Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale.
Some teams did play a reduced, or even complete, fall schedule in 2020, and will not play this spring.
Here’s a look at the teams that are either playing a limited schedule or that have opted out completely for the 2021 season and will look at restarting in the fall:
Sacramento State
Montana
Montana State
Portland State
Campbell
North Carolina Central
Hampton
North Alabama
Towson
Eastern Kentucky
Dayton
Marist
Bethune-Cookman
Florida A&M
Indiana State
Saint Francis
Abilene Christian
Central Arkansas
Houston Baptist
Stephen F. Austin
Dustin grew up in the heart of Big Ten country and has been in sports media since 2010. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. You can follow him on Twitter: @SchutteCFB