All but a few teams in the Football Championship Subdivision shut down in the fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic and will play a spring season culminating with the NCAA playoffs in April and May.
As has been the case across the sports landscape for months, nothing is set in stone and more than 20 FCS programs — including all eight in the Ivy League — are not playing spring football at all.
Defending national champion North Dakota State is supposed to open its season five weeks from Sunday against Youngstown State. At least that what it says on the Bison’s football website.