Despite a step back for a potential college football season on Monday, Oklahoma’s season-opener remains intact.
MLB is the only model for college football amidst the coronavirus pandemic that college football can look at as an example due to not working inside a single bubble and traveling to different cities for games. Today, the Miami Marlins officially had an outbreak amongst their clubhouse just three days into the shortened baseball season.
The Missouri Valley Conference—in which Missouri State is a member—had an announcement to make Monday afternoon, and the conference pushed back the start of fall sports to Sept. 18. However, it did not affect football.
“The Missouri Valley Conference Presidents Council has announced that it will delay the start of competition in MVC fall sports until Friday, Sept. 18, and the league will conduct conference-only competition in men’s soccer, women’s soccer and volleyball,” the league announced. “This decision does not include football-playing institutions that compete in leagues with separate governing bodies (members of the Pioneer Football League and the Missouri Valley Football Conference). It also does not include non-MVC sponsored sports in which Conference institutions compete.”
According to a report from Wyatt Wheeler of the Springfield Newsletter, the conference is waiting on the Big 12 and others to make their decisions on non-conference games.
MSU AD Kyle Moats said the MVFC won't make its decision until after the Big 12 and others make their decisions in the upcoming weeks.
— Wyatt Wheeler (@WyattWheeler_NL) July 27, 2020
Oklahoma petitioned to the NCAA to move the season-opener against Missouri State one week to Aug. 29 and week zero of college football and was granted.
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