The FCS Championship Game was played on January 11, 2020, in Frisco, Texas.

A standard provision of NCAA bylaws allows for 12 regular season games during years having 14 Saturdays in the period starting with the Labor Day (first Monday in September) weekend and ending with the last Saturday of November.

[4] August 29: Central Arkansas 35, Western Kentucky 28 September 7: Southern Illinois 45, UMass 20 September 14: The Citadel 27, Georgia Tech 24 OT + Following the 2018–19 academic year, Long Island University merged the athletic programs of its two campuses—the Division I non-football LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds and Division II football-sponsoring LIU Post Pioneers—into a single Division I program rebranded as the LIU Sharks.

A 24-team single-elimination tournament bracket culminated in the 2020 NCAA Division I Football Championship Game.

† Prince was placed on administrative leave by the university, "after allegations of verbal abuse and intimidation of players.