The 2020 Houston Baptist Huskies football team represented

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in the

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. The Huskies played four non-conference games in the fall of 2020 and opted out of the

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season played in the spring of 2021 and instead competed as an FCS independent. Led by eighth-year head coach

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, Houston Baptist compiled a record of 1–3. The team played home games at Husky Stadium in

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Preseason

Preseason poll

The Southland Conference released their original preseason poll in July 2020. The Huskies were picked to finish ninth in the conference, prior to their schedule split from the rest of the league. In addition, five Huskies were chosen to the Preseason All-Southland Team (*) These teams opted out of playing in the revised spring 2021 Southland schedule, and instead played as Independent in the fall of 2020.

Preseason All–Southland Teams

Offense ''2nd Team'' *Dreshawn Minnieweather – Running Back, SR *Ben Ratzlaff – Wide Receiver, SR * Jerreth Sterns – Wide Receiver, JR *Blake Patterson – Punter, SR Defense ''2nd Team'' *Caleb Johnson – Linebacker, SR

Schedule

Houston Baptist had a game scheduled against

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, but was canceled due to the

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. On July 22, Houston Baptist announced that it had added a game against

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as a replacement for Texas Southern.

Game summaries

At North Texas

At Texas Tech

References

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