UMass announced today that they will be playing a football season in the fall of 2020. This comes after cancelling their season in August. The decision to cancel was seen in August as unavoidable. Now, on the heels of several conferences reexamining playing a spring season, UMass has decided that they can make a fall season work.
Still, even with the Big Ten, Pac-12, Mountain West, and even the MAC announcing talks to play a fall season, UMass seemed a program who would have to continue to wait. Being an FBS Independent, they come back to the fall without any immediate partners on their schedule.