It appears the 2020 college football season has reached a tipping point as far as playing in the fall. Sources have told ESPN that commissioners of the Power Five conferences had an emergency meeting Sunday. This comes as college athletics officials have expressed concerns about playing football and other fall sports during their typical time of year while COVID-19 remains a heavy presence. Should such an announcement come, it likely will be collaborative.
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick is credited in the report as saying the following regarding one issue with the season potentially moving to the spring:
“My view is if we change course, we better be able to articulate the reason for doing so to our student-athletes.”
With the Mid-American Conference already having postponed its fall sports season and major conference athletic directors and administrators talking both in-house and beyond, the announcement that our autumn Saturdays will be quiet this year seems inevitable. The good news is everyone involved seems more on board with playing in the spring than not at all. Of course, this is all uncharted territory for everybody, so who knows what’s going to happen seven months from now? All we know for sure is that if anyone thinks football can just happen as it always has right now, they’re only kidding themselves.