Robert Morris Colonials

The Robert Morris Colonials football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Robert Morris University located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Formerly members of the Northeast Conference, the Colonials were originally intended to compete in the 2020 season as an FCS independent before becoming a football-only member of the Big South Conference in July 2021. The Colonials would ultimately join Big South football several months ahead of schedule. After COVID-19 caused the Big South to move its fall 2020 season to spring 2021, with two teams playing in the fall and a third not playing at all in 2020–21, the conference brought RMU into its football league for its spring 2021 season. The school's first football team was fielded in 1994. The team plays its home games at the 3,000 seat Joe Walton Stadium. They are currently led by third-year head coach Bernard Clark, Jr..

The Big South Conference and the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) announced that they have signed a letter of intent to create an association of their football member institutions, to begin with the 2023 NCAA Division I football season. OVC Commissioner Beth DeBauche and Big South Commissioner Kyle Kallander made the joint announcement on Tuesday, February 22, 2022.