Despite all the doom and gloom from this weekend comes a bright spot.
Per Auburn Undercover, SEC presidents and chancellors along with the SEC office has shown no indication that the conference-only season will be canceled for the fall.
From Phillip Marshall:
That’s the reason we moved the start of the season back (to Sept. 26), to see what happened when the students come back to school and those kinds of things,” the source said. “Why would we do it now? There’s no reason. Some people are concerned about whether we’ll be able to do it, but we don’t have to make that decision yet.”
The source laughed at the narrative that the Mid-American Conference’s decision to cancel fall sports would impact the Power 5.
I’ve read all those stories, but why would we care what the MAC does?” he said.
What if the Big Ten or Pac-12 or both decided to bail out on the season?
I’m sure that would have an impact,” the source said, “but I believe ESPN would pay a lot of money to televise our games.”
Earlier on Sunday, it was reported that a few Power 5 athletic directors said that a cancelation of the fall football season is “inevitable.”