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At this moment, anything is on the table.
On Thursday night, ESPN College GameDay host Kirk Herbstreit said that he would be ‘shocked’ if college football were to take place this fall. While we’re not sure that this is what he had in mind, according to Pro Football Talk, Michael Smith of Sports Business Journal is reporting that there’s a chance that the 2020 season could be moved up and truncated.
Michael Smith of Sports Business Journal reports that one of the scenarios for playing college football in 2020 consists of moving the season to July, August, and September.
The decision to accelerate the season would be driven by concerns that the American coronavirus epidemic could subside in the warmer months and return in the fall. An abbreviated college football season played in the summer months could be the best, and only, way to get a college football season accomplished.
The idea remains in its very early stages, and it would hinge on a variety of factors, from whether campuses would be able to staff the games to whether TV partners would embrace the idea to whether fans would show up in sweltering heat to whether fans would be able to attend the games at all.
Smith reports that alternative scenarios like a summer season will be discussed by the powers-that-be, and that it ultimately could be the only way to play the games in 2020.
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Right now, anything put out there — earlier season, no season at all — is conjecture. We don’t have enough intel as to how or when the novel coronavirus pandemic will be resolved. Certainly, there’s a chance for the aforementioned or the season being canceled altogether, but much of the nation imposed ‘stay at home’ measures as recently as this week, with more than two weeks before they expire.
So for the moment, stay at home and wait and see how the situation unfolds before us.