Southern Conference Postpones Fall Sports

The Southern Conference has decided to push its conference football schedule to the spring on Thursday. The SoCon will still allow members to pursue non-conference games if they so choose.

An additional 50 games could be canceled or postponed by the decision. 14 non-conference games, which are still eligible to be played, are marked with an asterisk while 36 conference games will be moved to the spring.

VMI has already decided against playing any non-conference games so its matchup against Virginia on Friday, September 11 has been canceled. Samford has also chosen to cancel all of its non-conference games as has East Tennessee State, Furman, and Wofford.

Chattanooga’s game at Western Kentucky was scheduled for September 3 but will be moved to a new date while their game against North Alabama will not take place.

Western Carolina is considering non-conference games in November leaving a game against Liberty as its only scheduled fall game.

The Citadel is rumored to have a game at Clemson on Saturday, September 19 but no official announcement has been made about Clemon’s opponent for that date.

Date	Away	Home
9/3*	Western Carolina	Eastern Kentucky
9/3*	Tennessee Tech	Samford
9/3*	Chattanooga	Western Kentucky
9/5	Wofford	Furman
9/11*	VMI	Virginia
9/12*	Furman	Charleston Southern
9/12	The Citadel	Wofford
9/12	Western Carolina	Mercer
9/19*	Charleston Southern	The Citadel
9/19*	North Alabama	Chattanooga
9/19	Mercer	Wofford
9/19	Samford	East Tennessee State
9/19*	Samford	Florida State
9/26*	East Tennessee State	Austin Peay
9/26*	Mercer	Campbell
9/26	VMI	Chattanooga
9/26	Western Carolina	Furman
9/26	Wofford	Samford
10/3	East Tennessee State	The Citadel
10/3	Furman	VMI
10/3	Chattanooga	Western Carolina
10/3*	Samford	Kennesaw State
10/10	Wofford	Chattanooga
10/10	The Citadel	Mercer
10/10	Samford	Furman
10/17	Chattanooga	The Citadel
10/17	VMI	Wofford
10/17	Furman	Mercer
10/17	Western Carolina	East Tennessee State
10/24	Furman	The Citadel
10/24	Mercer	Chattanooga
10/24	East Tennessee State	VMI
10/24	Western Carolina	Samford
10/31	Chattanooga	East Tennessee State
10/31	Mercer	Samford
10/31	The Citadel	VMI
10/31	Wofford	Western Carolina
11/7	Samford	The Citadel
11/7	East Tennessee State	Mercer
11/7	VMI	Western Carolina
11/7*	Wofford	Gardner-Webb
11/14*	Western Carolina	Liberty
11/14	Chattanooga	Furman
11/14*	Charleston Southern	Mercer
11/14	East Tennessee State	Wofford
11/14	VMI	Samford
11/21	Samford	Chattanooga
11/21	Mercer	VMI
11/21	Furman	East Tennessee State
11/21	The Citadel	Western Carolina

Over 700 games featuring FCS teams have been canceled or postponed for the 2020 season.

Photo courtesy of Wofford College Athletics.