SAN ANTONIO – The University of the Incarnate Word football team is slated to play a six-game, conference-only schedule for the Spring 2021 season, announced UIW Athletics on Tuesday. Game times and season ticket information will be released at a later date.
 
UIW's schedule features three home games: Sam Houston on Feb. 20, Southeastern Louisiana on March 20, and Northwestern State on April 10.
 
The Cardinals also have three road games: at McNeese on Feb. 27, at Lamar on March 6 and at Nicholls on March 27.
 
UIW head coach Eric Morris has been at the helm of the Cardinals for the last two seasons. In his first season (2018), the Cardinals won six games (tying a program record for single season wins), securing a share of the Southland Conference Championship and the program's first berth in the FCS Playoffs. During the 2019 season, UIW won five games, including two over top-25 ranked opponents. The 11 wins under Morris mark the best two-year stretch in UIW's 11-year history.
 
The schedule for the Southland Conference was announced Tuesday by the league office. With the new schedule, Southland teams will vie for a league championship with the winner receiving an automatic berth to the adjusted NCAA Division I Football Championship. The FCS playoffs, with a reduced bracket from 24 to 16 teams, will include 11 automatic qualifiers and five at-large bids and a first-round starting date of April 24. The NCAA Championship Game, hosted by the Southland Conference for the last decade, is scheduled to return to Frisco's Toyota Stadium on the weekend of May 15-16.
 
View UIW's schedule here. See the full Southland Conference schedule here.
 
SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
**The schedule is subject to change. UIW Athletics will continue monitoring the ongoing situation involving the COVID-19 pandemic and will follow the University's Emergency Response Team, Southland Conference, NCAA, and CDC guidelines and recommendations as they develop and change. We will continue to notify our Athletic community as information is updated.
 
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