If you’re just getting around to the news cycle for today in college sports, you’ve missed a lot. The MAC shelved its football season for 2020, the Big Ten released a statement putting a pause on progression to pads for fall camp, and there’s a meeting of Big Ten presidents where we expect some news on fall sports to come forth.
To be fair, the meeting of B1G presidents was a regularly scheduled one, but with all the developments today, one can say with pretty good certainty that discussions will center around the plausibility of having a college football season this fall.
In fact, according to a report from the Detroit Free Press, if Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren has anything to do with it, the college football season would be moved to the spring. That’s at least according to a couple of sources not close to the situation, but not authorized to speak on the development.
While moving college football to the spring would likely give the COVID-19 pandemic a chance to mitigate because of the likelihood of a vaccine or herd immunity, it raises all kinds of operational and timing concerns that have been discussed and exhausted ad nauseum.
You will undoubtedly have several high profile player opt-out, the time between seasons would cause safety concerns, and the 2021 NFL Draft could also staddle the season.
This, like most news today, is a developing one, so as more becomes available, we’ll be on top of it.
