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It appears that the college football season is not going to happen in the fall.
According to a report from Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde and Ross Dellinger, several heads of the Power 5 conferences held a conference call on Sunday and are set to meet next week with the “expected resolution of postponing fall sports until 2021.”
"In the next 72 hours, college football is going to come to a complete stop."
Leaders around the industry are meeting over the next three days with expectation of a postponement or cancellation to the 2020 fall college football season.
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— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) August 9, 2020
High-level conference meetings are being planned for this week across the college football landscape with the expected resolution of postponing fall sports until 2021, multiple sources have told Sports Illustrated.
“It’s gotten to a critical stage,” one conference commissioner told Sports Illustrated Sunday, after a conference call between the heads of the Power 5 conferences. “I think all of us will be meeting with our boards in the coming days. We have work to do that is no fun.”
It’s gotten to a critical stage,” one conference commissioner told Sports Illustrated Sunday, after a conference call between the heads of the Power 5 conferences. “I think all of us will be meeting with our boards in the coming days. We have work to do that is no fun.”
“In the next 72 hours college football is going to come to a complete stop,” one industry source said.
Dellinger is reporting that the Big Ten will be the first Power 5 conference to announce that they will cancel the season and are looking for other conferences to join them.
College football sources tell @SInow that the Big Ten is moving toward a decision to cancel the 2020 fall season, while engaging other Power 5 conferences on a uniform decision to be announced later this week. https://t.co/vT1JIQYHrC
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) August 9, 2020
Darren Rovell has also spoken to sources within the Big Ten and they are confirming Dellenger’s report.
Big 10 source: “There’s no path forward that medically is safe. Hope we can all realize this as the season should have been called a month ago. No decisions today.”
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) August 9, 2020
College football not happening in the fall sucks pretty bad but it’s not entirely surprising considering how the pandemic is still spreading throughout parts of the country.