The 2020 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football team represented Mississippi Valley State University as a member of the East Division of the
Southwestern Athletic Conference
The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States. It participates in t ...
(SWAC) during the
2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season
The 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States, was organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level.
The regular ...
. Led by third-year head coach
Vincent Dancy
Vincent Dancy is an American football coach, currently a defensive outside LB coach at the Colorado Buffaloes football, University of Colorado. He is the former head football coach at Mississippi Valley State University, a position he has held fro ...
, the Delta Devils compiled an overall record of 1–3 with an identical mark conference play, placing last out of fourt teams in the SWAC's East Division. Mississippi Valley State played home games at
Rice–Totten Stadium
Rice–Totten Stadium is a 10,000-seat multi-purpose stadium location in Itta Bena, Mississippi, United States. It serves as the home field of the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football team of Mississippi Valley State University. The sta ...
in
Itta Bena, Mississippi
Itta Bena is a city in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,049 at the 2010 census. The town's name is derived from the Choctaw phrase ''iti bina'', meaning "forest camp". Itta Bena is part of the Greenwood, Mississipp ...
.
On July 20, 2020, the Southwestern Athletic Conference announced that it would not play fall sports due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, which includes the football program. The conference is formalizing plans to conduct a competitive schedule for football during the 2021 spring semester.
Schedule
Due to the SWAC's postponement of the 2020 football season to spring 2021, games against Nicholls,
Sam Houston State
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, and Virginia–Lynchburg were canceled. The SWAC released updated spring schedules on August 17.
Game summaries
At Jackson State
Arkansas–Pine Bluff
At Alabama State
References
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Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football
The Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils are the college football team representing the Mississippi Valley State University. The Delta Devils play in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision as a member of the Southwestern Athletic ...