College football 2020 offseason thread

Add the Atlantic 10 to the list.
Atlantic-10 Postpones 2020 Fall Sports; Makes Plans for Spring Play

 

SWAC may be D-II caliber sports, but it is in FCS.

 

Can has been kicked a bit further down the road.

 

Earlier this week, the Cascade Conference (Pacific Northwest NAIA league) decided all fall sports are suspended until Nov. 1. That includes three schools (Southern Oregon, Eastern Oregon, College of Idaho) who play football in the Frontier Conference.

As of now, the five Montana schools in the Frontier are considering an eight-game football schedule with everyone playing each other twice. We'll see.

 

The NJCAA shifted football to the spring on the national level, but Mississippi (where a quarter of the NJCAA's football teams reside) is going to break from that and try to play in the fall. They'll start in October, play a shortened schedule, and are leaving the door open for a spring season if needed.
One of the big concerns from the coaches was having enough players to play in the spring. Most sophomores graduate in December and move on to their four-year schools, so most teams might have only had 25-30 players on the roster in the spring.

MACJC to begin football season in October - The Vicksburg Post

 

That's an insane stat.
Mississippi has more JC football programs than any other state in that association and twice as many as Texas. Also interesting: Kansas is second.

 

Yeah, there are really only four or five states where junior college football is a thing: Mississippi, Kansas, Iowa and Texas, and then California and Arizona have some decent teams.
Mississippi's league is legit. Lots of Division I talent there. The quality of play might be better than a lot of DIII or DII leagues. More than a few players opt to play two years of juco ball instead of signing with an FCS or G5 program, figuring if they play well in junior college they'll get better offers a year or two down the line than they did coming out of high school.

 

You've gotten me looking up all JC football teams. And it's tremendous. More than half (66 of 120) are in California, and many of them have tremendous nicknames.
There are Vaqueros, Conquistadors, Marauders, Avengers, Golden Norsemen, Brahma Bulls and Broncbusters. Fabulous.