(Stats Perform) - Southland Conference football will look a lot different in the spring than it would during a normal fall season.

Abilene Christian, Central Arkansas, Houston Baptist and Stephen F. Austin aren't going to participate in the spring conference schedule, instead choosing to play this fall after the Southland presidents gave member schools the option to pursue nonconference games. That means only seven of the 11 football programs are included in the spring schedule, which was announced Tuesday: UIW, Lamar, McNeese, Nicholls, Northwestern State, Sam Houston State and Southeastern Louisiana.

All 13 FCS conference postponed their fall schedules until the spring due to concerns over coronavirus. Most of the 17 FCS programs that are playing nonconference games this fall also plan to play in the spring. Ohio Valley Conference member Eastern Kentucky is the only program besides the four in the Southland that doesn't plan to seek a spring schedule.