CAA Football Unveils Schedule For 2026 Season
Rob Washburn
RICHMOND, Va. (December 16, 2025) – CAA Football has unveiled its schedule for the 2026 season, which once again features 12 games over a 13-week period.
The conference slate includes four home games and four road contests for all 13 teams. When building the schedule, pairing teams within the same geographic area was taken into consideration as well as preserving rivalry games. Limiting air travel to reduce costs was a priority.
There is at least one conference game during all 13 weeks of the schedule, starting with Maine at Towson on Thursday, August 27 and UAlbany hosting New Hampshire on Friday, August 28. CAA Football newcomer Sacred Heart plays its first conference game at Monmouth on Saturday, September 5.
The non-conference schedule features 15 games against FBS opponents, with eight on September 5 and five on September 12. CAA teams will meet three foes from the ACC (Boston College, Stanford, Syracuse), two from the SEC (Florida, South Carolina), one from the Big Ten (Maryland) and three from the American (Army, Navy, Temple).
Three CAA Football teams earned FCS playoff berths in 2025, marking the 18
th time in the past 20 years that the conference has had at least three teams selected. The conference has had at least one team advance to the semifinals in 11 of the last 13 years and has had a team reach the national championship game 11 times since 2003.
Thursday, August 27
*Maine at Towson
Stony Brook at Delaware State
Friday, August 28
*New Hampshire at UAlbany
Rhode Island at Merrimack
Saturday, August 29
Bryant at Stonehill
Campbell at ETSU
Monmouth at Tennessee Tech
Morgan State at North Carolina A&T
Thursday, September 3
Lindenwood at Stony Brook
UAlbany at Buffalo
Saturday, September 5
*Sacred Heart at Monmouth
Bryant at Army
Western Carolina at Campbell
Elon at Davidson
Hampton at Maryland
Maine at Appalachian State
New Hampshire at Syracuse
North Carolina A&T at Georgia State
Rhode Island at Temple
Towson at Navy
Saturday, September 12
*Bryant at Hampton
*Elon at Rhode Island
UAlbany at LIU
Campbell at Florida
Merrimack at Maine
Monmouth at Western Michigan
Stonehill at New Hampshire
North Carolina A&T at North Carolina Central
Sacred Heart at UMass
Stony Brook at Ball State
Towson at South Carolina
Saturday, September 19
*Monmouth at UAlbany
*North Carolina A&T at Campbell
*Sacred Heart at Elon
*Rhode Island at Stony Brook
Princeton at Bryant
Hampton at Norfolk State
Maine at Boston College
Harvard at New Hampshire
Morgan State at Towson
Saturday, September 26
*Campbell at Hampton
*Maine at Elon
*New Hampshire at Sacred Heart
*Rhode Island at North Carolina A&T
UAlbany at Princeton
Monmouth at Dartmouth
Stony Brook at Fordham
Towson at Delaware State
Saturday, October 3
*North Carolina A&T at Bryant
*Elon at New Hampshire
*Sacred Heart at Maine
*Towson at Monmouth
Brown at Rhode Island
Campbell at North Carolina Central
Delaware State at UAlbany
Howard at Hampton (Audi Field/Washington, D.C.)
Saturday, October 10
*New Hampshire at North Carolina A&T
*Stony Brook at Towson
Bryant at Brown
Wofford at Elon
Stonehill at Sacred Heart
Saturday, October 17
*UAlbany at Stony Brook
*Bryant at Maine
*Towson at Campbell
*Hampton at Sacred Heart
*Monmouth at New Hampshire
Elon at Stanford
Norfolk State at North Carolina A&T
Rhode Island at Yale
Saturday, October 24
*UAlbany at Rhode Island
*Stony Brook at Bryant
*Campbell at Maine
*Monmouth at Hampton
New Hampshire at Merrimack
Saturday, October 31
*Campbell at UAlbany
*Bryant at Monmouth
*Elon at North Carolina A&T
*Hampton at Towson
*Maine at Rhode Island
*Sacred Heart at Stony Brook
Saturday, November 7
*UAlbany at Bryant
*Stony Brook at Campbell
*Hampton at Elon
*North Carolina A&T at Monmouth
*Rhode Island at New Hampshire
*Towson at Sacred Heart
Sacramento State at Maine
Saturday, November 14
*Maine at UAlbany
*Bryant at Sacred Heart
*Campbell at Elon
*North Carolina A&T at Hampton
*Stony Brook at New Hampshire
*Towson at Rhode Island
Merrimack at Monmouth
Saturday, November 21
*UAlbany at North Carolina A&T
*Rhode Island at Bryant
*Monmouth at Campbell
*Elon at Towson
*Hampton at Stony Brook
*New Hampshire at Maine
Sacred Heart at Merrimack
*Denotes CAA Football game
DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE – Times will be announced at a later date