The news about the potential of a college football season continues to be grimmer by the day. After the MAC canceled its fall football season rumors and speculation ran rampant about the Big Ten and other Power Five conferences following suit.
We didn’t get the official new yesterday, but some prominent Power Five presidents told CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd that the cancellation of the season appeared inevitable. And it wasn’t the only sourced report out there about the potential of a doomsday scenario.
Now, today, we get word that the Power Five commissioners had an emergency meeting to discuss the fate of fall sports and that the Big Ten presidents, following a regularly scheduled meeting Saturday, as a whole were ready to pull the plug on the season and perhaps move it to the spring.
Sources reportedly told ESPN that no vote took place by the Big Ten presidents on Saturday but that there was another meeting scheduled to take place Sunday night.
“It doesn’t look good,” one Power Five athletic director told ESPN.
Sources told the worldwide leader in sports programming that it’s now just a matter of which Power Five conference will be the first to make the move towards a canceled or postponed season and that the others would likely follow suit.
“Nobody wanted to be the first to do it,” a Power Five coach told ESPN, “and now nobody will want to be the last.”
Based on reports, many feel either the Pac-12 or Big Ten would likely be the first conference to make the call and that the ACC, Big 12, and SEC — who would prefer to wait and see what happens when students return to school — would fall in line thereafter.
So what’s the bottom line with this? Nothing is official and so there’s still some hope, but it’s hard to see a path towards a season this fall with all the chatter and reports circulating.
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