2020 Florida Atlantic Owls football team


The 2020 Florida Atlantic Owls football team will represent Florida Atlantic University in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Owls will play their home games at FAU Stadium in Boca Raton, Florida, and will compete in the East Division of Conference USA. They will be led by head coach Willie Taggart, in his first year.

Previous season

The Owls finished the 2019 regular season 11–3, 7–1 in CUSA play which they finished in first place in the East Division, the programs second second division title. Florida Atlantic played against UAB in the conference championship game. The Owls played in the game for the second time in three years and defeated the Blazers. The team was invited to play in the Boca Raton Bowl against SMU, where the Owls took their eleventh win of the season.

Preseason

Award watch lists

Listed in the order that they were released

CUSA media days

The CUSA Media Days will be held virtually for the first time in conference history.
Media poll

Preseason All-CUSA teams

To be released

Schedule

Florida Atlantic announced its 2020 football schedule on January 8, 2020. The 2020 schedule consists of 5 home and 5 away games in the regular season.
The Owls had games scheduled against Minnesota and Stony Brook, which were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Game summaries

Stony Brook

at Georgia Southern

South Florida

Charlotte

at Southern Miss

at Marshall

UTSA

Western Kentucky

at FIU

Old Dominion

at Middle Tennessee