2020 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team

2020 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football
2020 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football
Conference	Southern Conference
Ranking
STATS	No. 22
FCS Coaches	No. 23
Record	4–2 (4–2 SoCon)
Head coach	Randy Sanders (3rd season);
Offensive coordinator	Mike Rader (3rd season)
Defensive coordinator	Billy Taylor (6th season)
Home stadium	William B. Greene Jr. Stadium
	Seasons ← 2019 2021 →

2020 Southern Conference football standings
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Team	W		L	W		L
No. 11 VMI $^	6	–	1	6	–	2
No. 22 East Tennessee State	4	–	1	4	–	1
Chattanooga†	3	–	1	3	–	2
Mercer	5	–	3	5	–	6
Samford	4	–	3	4	–	3
Furman	3	–	4	3	–	4
Wofford†	1	–	4	1	–	4
The Citadel	2	–	6	2	–	10
Western Carolina	1	–	5	1	–	8

$ – Conference champion ^ – FCS playoff participant † – Chattanooga and Wofford opted out of the remainder of the spring season on March 29 and April 5, 2021, respectively. Rankings from STATS Poll

The 2020 East Tennessee State Buccaneers football team represented East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season and were in the fifth year of their second stint as football members of the Southern Conference (SoCon). They were led by third-year head coach Randy Sanders and played their home games at William B. Greene Jr. Stadium.

Schedule

East Tennessee State had a game against Georgia, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1]

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
February 20	1:00 p.m.	Samford		William B. Greene Jr. Stadium Johnson City, TN	ESPN+	W 24–17	2,106
March 6	12:00 p.m.	at No. 20 Wofford		Gibbs Stadium Spartanburg, SC	ESPN+	Canceled^[a]
March 13	1:00 p.m.	No. 15 Furman		William B. Greene Jr. Stadium Johnson City, TN	ESPN+	L 13–17	2,173
March 20	1:00 p.m.	at The Citadel		Johnson Hagood Stadium Charleston, SC	ESPN+	W 28–21	2,642
March 27	1:00 p.m.	Western Carolina		William B. Greene Jr. Stadium Johnson City, TN	ESPN+	W 24–17	2,442
April 3	1:30 p.m.	at No. 10 VMI		Alumni Memorial Field Lexington, VA	ESPN+	W 24–20	3,000
April 10	6:00 p.m.	at Mercer	No. 21	Five Star Stadium Macon, GA		L 13–21	3,273
April 17	3:30 p.m.	Chattanooga		William B. Greene Jr. Stadium Johnson City, TN	ESPN+	Canceled^[b]
Homecoming Rankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

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Venues	Memorial Center (1977–2003) Kermit Tipton Stadium (2015–2016) William B. Greene Jr. Stadium (2017–present)
Bowls & rivalries	1969 Grantland Rice Bowl
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942–1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004–2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024