The 2020 Lehigh Mountain Hawks football team represented

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in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Mountain Hawks were led by second-year head coach Tom Gilmore and played their home games at

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. They competed as a member of the

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. On July 13, 2020, the Patriot League announced that it would cancel its fall sports seasons due to the

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. The league announced a spring schedule on February 5, with the first games set to be played on March 13.

Schedule

Lehigh had games scheduled against Columbia, on September 19 and

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, on October 3, which were later canceled before the start of the 2020 season.

References

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