The 2020 Abilene Christian Wildcats football team represented Abilene Christian University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Southland Conference.

The Southland Conference released their original preseason poll in July 2020.

The Wildcats were picked to finish seventh in the conference, prior to their schedule split from the rest of the league.

[1] In addition, four Wildcats were chosen to the Preseason All-Southland Team[2] (*) These teams opted out of playing in the revised spring 2021 Southland schedule, and instead played as Independent in the fall of 2020.

Abilene Christian had a game scheduled against Texas A&M, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.