2020 Grambling State Tigers football team
The 2020 Grambling State Tigers football team will represent Grambling State University in the 2020 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers are led by seventh-year head coach Broderick Fobbs and will play their home games at Eddie Robinson Stadium in Grambling, Louisiana as members of the West Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.
On July 20, 2020, the Southwestern Athletic Conference announced that it would not play fall sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes the football program. The conference is formalizing plans to conduct a competitive schedule for football during the 2021 spring semester.Previous season
The Tigers finished the 2019 season 6–5, 4–3 in SWAC play to finish tied for second place in the West Division.Preseason
Recruiting class
Reference:Preseason polls
The SWAC will release their polls in July 2020.Preseason all–SWAC teams
Offense
DefenseSchedule
The 2020 schedule consists of 3 home, 5 away, and 2 neutral site games in the regular season. The Tigers will travel to SWAC foes Alcorn State, Texas Southern, and Alabama A&M. The Tigers will play host to SWAC foes Mississippi Valley State, Alabama State, and Arkansas–Pine Bluff. The Tigers will play two neutral site conference games—the State Fair Classic against Prairie View A&M at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, TX and the Bayou Classic against Southern at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, LA.
Due to the SWAC's postponement of the 2020 football season to spring 2021, games against South Alabama, South Carolina State and UTSA were canceled.Game summaries
at South Alabama
at UTSA
at Alcorn State
Alabama State
at Texas Southern
Arkansas–Pine Bluff
vs. Southern
