The 2020–21 NCAA Division III football season was the component of the 2020

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season organized by the

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at the

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level in the United States. Due to the

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, only a few games were played during the traditional fall season, including the annual

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between

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and Merchant Marine on November 14, 2020. For other teams that chose to play during the 2020–21 school year, the regular season began on February 6, 2021 and culminated on May 1. The season concluded with the end of the regular season, as the playoffs and

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were not held due to the pandemic.

Conference changes and new programs

Membership changes

Conference standings

Conferences that did not play

The following conferences did not hold a football season in fall 2020 or spring 2021. *

Centennial Conference The Centennial Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Chartered member teams are located in Maryland and Pennsylvania; associate members are also located in New York and Virginia. Ele ...

– announced on December 10, 2020, that fall and winter sports would not be held during their respective seasons or during the spring. *

Commonwealth Coast Conference The Conference of New England (CNE), formerly known as the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC), is an List of NCAA conferences, intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA's NCAA Division ...

– announced on January 21, 2021, that all winter sports and previously cancelled sports seasons would not be held. *

Eastern Collegiate Football Conference The Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) was a football-only intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Founded in 2009, it combined four schools spread across the states of Massachusetts and New Yor ...

– announced on July 14, 2020, that the football season would not be played. *

Liberty League The Liberty League is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. Member schools are all located in the state of New York. History It was founded in 1995 as the ...

– announced on November 9, 2020, that winter/spring sports and all previously postponed fall sports would not be played. *

Middle Atlantic Conference The Middle Atlantic Conferences (MAC) is an umbrella organization of three intercollegiate athletic conferences that competes in the NCAA's Division III. The 16 member colleges are in the Mid-Atlantic United States. The organization is divided ...

– announced on March 22, 2021, that the previously postponed football season would not be rescheduled for the spring. *

Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference The Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Full member institutions are all located in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with affiliate mem ...

– announced on January 22, 2021, that postponed fall sports would not be rescheduled for the spring. *

Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC ) is an List of NCAA conferences, intercollegiate athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division III, Division III. All 13 of the mem ...

– announced on March 3, 2021, that spring seasons for fall sports would not be held. *

Midwest Conference The Midwest Conference (MWC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the Midwestern United States in the states of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. The Midwest Confe ...

– announced on December 3, 2020, that fall and winter sports would be cancelled and not rescheduled. *

North Coast Athletic Conference The North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III which is composed of colleges located in Ohio and Indiana. It sponsors 23 ...

– announced on October 16, 2020, that fall sports seasons would not be held. *

New England Small College Athletic Conference The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division III, Division III comprising sports teams from eleven highly s ...

– announced on August 10, 2020, that fall sports seasons would not be held. *

New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the states of Connecticut, Ma ...

– announced on July 17, 2020, that fall sports seasons would not be held. Coast Guard and Merchant Marine, both federal service academies and NEWMAC members (Coast Guard in all sports and Merchant Marine in football only), chose to play their rivalry game in November 2020, but did not play any other football games in 2020–21. *

Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that operates in NCAA Division III. The conference was founded in 1915 and it consists of twelve small private schools that are locat ...

– announced on December 1, 2020, that the fall and winter sports seasons that had previously been postponed would not be held. *

Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that competes in the NCAA's Division III. In women's gymnastics, it competes alongside Division I and II members, as the NCAA sponsors a singl ...

– announced on July 27, 2020, that the fall sports seasons would not be held.

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Conference changes and new programs

Membership changes

Conference standings

Conferences that did not play

See also

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