SIAC and CIAA Suspend Fall Sports; 12 Additional Games With FCS Opponents Canceled

In a day and week of constant bad news, two Division II conferences delivered some more. The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) and Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) jointly announced the suspension of fall sports for 2020.

Both conferences are willing to consider a move of football to the spring of 2021 but will ultimately decide if that route is feasible at a later date.

SIAC and CIAA teams were scheduled to play a total of 14 FCS teams in 2020. Morehouse College, a member of the SIAC, previously canceled its 2020 season last month.

The full list is below and includes the previously canceled Morehouse-Southern and Central State–Howard matchups.

Date	Road Team	Home Team
9/3	Limestone	Gardner-Webb
9/5	Tuskegee	Alabama State
9/5	Virginia Union	Hampton
9/5	Virginia State	Norfolk State
9/5	Shaw	North Carolina A&T
9/6	Central State	Howard
9/6	Albany State	Florida A&M
9/12	Fort Valley State	Alcorn State
9/12	Presbyterian	Johnson C. Smith
9/12	Winston-Salem State	North Carolina Central
9/19	Clark Atlanta	Tennessee State
9/19	Saint Augustine’s	Delaware State
10/3	Fort Valley State	Hampton
10/31	Morehouse	Southern

The additional 12 games canceled brings the total number of games impacted at the FCS level up to 118. Of those 118 games, 113 have been cancellations.

Photo courtesy of Hampton University Athletics.