On Sunday, the Power 5 conference commissioners held an “emergency meeting,” according to a report from ESPN.
The outlook on the future of the 2020 college football season for the Southeastern Conference and beyond seems to have only gotten darker by the day, but now it looks plainly grim.
According to the ESPN report, “a vast majority” of Big Ten presidents are ready to call off the fall sports season, possibly prepared to move college football to the spring.
Per the report, the Big Ten went into the meeting seeking to “gauge if commissioners and university presidents and chancellors from the other Power 5 conferences will fall in line with them.”
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Headlines surrounding just how ready those in charge are ready to pull the plug and call off fall football have been all over the place in recent days, with one Power 5 athletic director calling the cancellation of the football season ‘inevitable.’
The pressure is on, and now it seems to be a waiting game of who will cancel first — and who will be the last domino to fall.
Of course, the SEC could absolutely still choose to play out the season on a conference-only schedule regardless of what some others may do, but it will be interesting to see how a situation that appears to be darkening continues to play out.
For now, LSU is expected to begin its season on Sept. 26 against the Ole Miss Rebels in Tiger Stadium.
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