SWAC Postpones Fall Sports

After a report on Friday by Brett McMurphy that the SWAC would cancel fall sports and subsequent clarification from SWAC Commissioner Charles McClelland, the SWAC presidents voted to postpone fall sports to the spring.

The SWAC voted to play a 7 game football schedule spring 2021 with an 8 week training period beginning in January. 6 of those 7 games will be conference matchups and the seventh game is an optional non-conference contest. Each SWAC team will face four divisional opponents and two teams from the other division.

The SWAC becomes the fifth FCS conference to pass on a fall football season after the Ivy League, the Patriot League, MEAC, and Colonial Athletic Association. Last week, the MEAC’s cancellation of fall sports also led to the cancellation of the MEAC/SWAC Challenge and the Celebration Bowl between the MEAC and SWAC Champions.

The SWAC had been affected by a few previous cancellations from other conferences as well as the NAIA’s delayed start. A total of 63 additional games featuring SWAC teams were canceled or postponed by Monday’s vote. All 63 games, including the SWAC Championship, are listed below as they will no longer be played this fall.

Date	Road Team	Home Team
9/5	Texas Southern	Prairie View A&M
9/5	Alcorn State	Auburn
9/5	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	Troy
9/5	Mississippi Valley State	Nicholls
9/5	Stephen F. Austin	Alabama A&M
9/12	Mississippi Valley State	Sam Houston State
9/12	Alabama A&M	UAB
9/12	Alabama State	Texas Tech
9/12	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	Miami (OH)
9/12	Grambling State	South Alabama
9/12	Prairie View A&M	TCU
9/19	Houston Baptist	Texas Southern
9/19	Alabama State	Kennesaw State
9/19	Alcorn State	Mississippi Valley State
9/19	Grambling State	Texas-San Antonio
9/19	Jackson State	Southern Miss
9/19	Prairie View A&M	Louisiana Tech
9/19	Southern	Alabama A&M
9/26	Prairie View A&M	Grambling State
9/26	Alabama A&M	Texas Southern
9/26	Jackson State	Southern
9/26	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	Alcorn State
9/26	Mississippi Valley State	Alabama State
10/3	Texas Southern	Jackson State
10/3	Northwestern State	Prairie View A&M
10/3	Alabama State	Arkansas-Pine Bluff
10/3	Alcorn State	Alabama A&M
10/3	Mississippi Valley State	Grambling State
10/10	UT-Permian Basin	Texas Southern
10/10	Prairie View A&M	Jackson State
10/10	Alabama A&M	Mississippi Valley State
10/10	Grambling State	Alcorn State
10/10	Southern	Alabama State
10/17	Alabama A&M	Prairie View A&M
10/17	Jackson state	Arkansas-Pine Bluff
10/17	Alabama State	Grambling State
10/17	Texas Southern	Southern
10/17	Virginia-Lynchburg	Mississippi Valley State
10/24	Alcorn State	Southern
10/24	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	Mississippi Valley State
10/31	Mississippi Valley State	Jackson State
10/31	Grambling state	Texas Southern
10/31	Alabama State	Alabama A&M
10/31	Florida Memorial	Southern
10/31	Prairie View A&M	Arkansas-Pine Bluff
10/31	Virginia-Lynchburg	Alcorn State
11/7	Alabama A&M	Jackson State
11/7	Mississippi Valley State	Texas Southern
11/7	Southern	Prairie View A&M
11/7	Alabama State	Alcorn State
11/7	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	Grambling State
11/14	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	Southern
11/14	Grambling State	Alabama A&M
11/14	Alcorn State	Prairie View A&M
11/14	Jackson State	Alabama State
11/14	Texas Southern	New Mexico State
11/21	Alabama A&M	Mississippi State
11/21	Jackson State	Alcorn State
11/21	Prairie View A&M	Mississippi Valley State
11/21	Texas Southern	Arkansas-Pine Bluff
11/26	Texas Southern	Alabama State
11/28	Grambling State	Southern
12/5	SWAC East Champion	SWAC West Champion

Photo courtesy of Alcorn State University Athletics.