| Year: | 2020 |
| Team: | Tarleton State Texans |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Independent |
| Record: | 5–3 |
| Head Coach: | Todd Whitten |
| Hc Year: | 11th |
| Cooff Coach1: | Jonathan Beasley |
| Cooc1 Year: | 4th |
| Cooff Coach2: | Scott Carey |
| Cooc2 Year: | 3rd |
| Def Coach: | Marcus Patton |
| Dc Year: | 5th |
| Stadium: | Memorial Stadium |
The 2020 Tarleton State Texans football team represented Tarleton State University as an independent the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team had planned to play in the fall 2020, until the postponement of the season on August 10, 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A schedule for the spring of 2021 was later arranged. Led by 11th-year head coach Todd Whitten, the Texas compiled a record of 5–3. Tarleton State played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Stephenville, Texas.
The team's 2020 fall schedule was scheduled with six home and six away games. On August 10, 2020, Tarleton State University announced the postponement of the football season, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, until the spring of 2021.[1] [2]