2020 Robert Morris Colonials football team

{{short description|American college football season}}

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{{Infobox college sports team season

| year = 2020

| team = Robert Morris Colonials

| sport = football

| image = Robert Morris Colonials wordmark.svg

| image_size = 175

| conference = Big South Conference

| short_conf = Big South

| record = 0–3

| conf_record = 0–2

| head_coach = Bernard Clark

| hc_year = 3rd

| off_coach = Gabe Luvara

| oc_year = 3rd

| off_scheme =

| def_coach = Dave Plungas

| dc_year = 3rd

| def_scheme =

| captain =

| stadium = Joe Walton Stadium

}}

{{2020 Big South Conference football standings}}

The 2020 Robert Morris Colonials football team represented Robert Morris University during the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Bernard Clark and played their home games at Joe Walton Stadium.

On June 15, 2020, Robert Morris announced that it would be leaving the Northeast Conference for the Horizon League in all sports except football, with the move officially taking place on July 1, 2020. The football team originally planned to play as an FCS independent for the 2020 season before moving to the Big South Conference in 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wtae.com/article/robert-morris-leaves-nec-for-horizon-league/32870842|title=Robert Morris leaves NEC for Horizon League; football moves to Big South|date=June 15, 2020|website=wtae.com|language=en|access-date=June 15, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://fbschedules.com/robert-morris-football-join-big-south-conference-in-2021/|title=Robert Morris football to join Big South Conference in 2021|date=June 15, 2020|website=fbschedules.com|language=en|access-date=June 15, 2020}} Robert Morris's 2020 football schedule was initially unchanged, meaning that all NEC opponents would have lost a conference game.{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesonline.com/sports/20200615/robert-morris-joins-horizon-league-football-heads-to-big-south|title=Robert Morris joins Horizon League, football heads to Big South|date=June 15, 2020|website=timesonline.com|language=en|access-date=June 15, 2020}}

These plans would be upended by COVID-19, which led most FCS conferences to cancel their originally scheduled fall 2020 seasons. Most of these leagues, among them the Big South and NEC, eventually moved football to spring 2021. Of the eight schools that had planned to field teams in the Big South's 2020 fall season, only Campbell and North Alabama played in the fall, and Hampton chose not to play football at all in the 2020–21 school year. The Big South ultimately chose to hold a spring 2021 season with the remaining four teams plus RMU, with the Colonials eligible for the conference title.{{cite press release|url=https://bigsouthsports.com/news/2020/11/9/big-south-announces-football-2021-spring-schedule.aspx |title=Big South Announces Football 2021 Spring Schedule |publisher=Big South Conference |date=November 9, 2020 |accessdate=December 23, 2020}}