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What happens if a CFB Playoff game is cancelled? A plan is announced

The COVID pandemic has hindered a lot of original plans, but a backup should always be in order. The College Football PLayoff announced p…

A year like 2020 has taught us many things, one of the most important being: always have a backup plan.

The ongoing COVID pandemic has impacted nearly every sport, conference, program or individual. Many games throughout the 2020 college football season had either been cancelled or postponed and rescheduled.

For example, Ohio State only managed to play five regular season games due to constant issues with in-program outbreaks or an opponent dealing with the virus.

With bowl season upon the college football community, all eyes turn toward the final four teams and their bowl games, AKA Semi-Finals for the 2020-2021 National Championship.

Though it may seem unnecessary with there only being two games to play, the College Football Playoff organization has come up with a plan in case any games are cancelled.

The plan consists of three dates, ideal for any COVID-related issues teams may face prior to the originally scheduled game, allowing enough time for testing and any arrangements that need to be made.

All of this week’s canceled college football games

Here’s the on-going updated list of the college football games that have been canceled for this coming weekend

College football is getting by in what continues to be the strangest year any of us have ever seen and probably ever will see, God willing.

As the year has gone on the outbreaks of COVID-19 have as well, leaving many to wonder if coaches are finding convenient ways to get out of blowouts and help save their jobs, while others can’t preach safety enough.

What I do know is that as crazy as this year has been, I’m happy that it was at least given a try instead of simply punting on the year.  It’s been far from perfect but we all knew that would be the case when the season was ultimately saved.

With that, here are is your current list of games that have been called off for this weekend, as of December 3, 2020:

Friday, Dec. 4:
Southern Mississippi at UTEP
Boise State at UNLV

Saturday, Dec. 5:
Northwestern at Minnesota
Kent State at Miami (OH)
Maryland at Michigan

Also worth noting and I’ll be doing a piece praising BYU for getting this done as well, is that BYU and Coastal Carolina were able to get a game for Saturday scheduled on short notice after Liberty was unable to play due to COVID-19 concerns.

It’s a huge addition of a game for BYU who hasn’t gotten respect from the College Football Playoff committee to date and it’s a move that makes loud-mouths like myself have to shut their mouth and instead tip our caps in the direction of Provo, Utah.

College football: No Pinstripe Bowl in 2020

The Pinstripe Bowl has been played annually at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York since 2010.  Since 2014 it has paired an ACC team against a Big Ten team with the Big Ten taking five of those six contests.

A bowl that Notre Dame has participated in and won in the last decade won’t be happening this winter as today the Pinstripe Bowl was officially canceled for 2020.

The bowl game made the announcement on Friday morning, citing the rise in Coronavirus cases nationwide and as well as the significant amount of games in both the ACC and Big Ten that have been postponed or canceled as a result.

The official statement from the New York Yankees who host the game can be read below:

Due to the recent increase in coronavirus cases, which has led to the imposition of various travel restrictions and the cancellation of many college football games, including those in the Big Ten and ACC Conferences, we have made the decision out of an abundance of caution and in conjunction with both conferences to cancel the 2020 New Era Pinstripe Bowl. The priority of the Yankees, New Era Pinstripe Bowl, Big Ten and ACC is the safety of players, coaches and staff, and this decision is consistent with that approach. We look forward to hosting the New Era Pinstripe Bowl with an enthusiastic crowd filling Yankee Stadium in 2021.

The Pinstripe Bowl has been played annually at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York since 2010.  Since 2014 it has paired an ACC team against a Big Ten team with the Big Ten taking five of those six contests.

Notre Dame capped their 9-4 season in 2013 by beating Rutgers 29-16 in the Pinstripe Bowl.

 

Breaking: Ivy League cancels winter sports

The Ivy League has become the first conference to cancel all sports for the 2020-21 winter season, including basketball.

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In the same week we saw some basketball programs announce their entire season schedules, the Ivy League has announced their cancellations of the entire 2020-21 winter sports schedule.

Ivy League presidents voted to make that decision on Thursday afternoon and Matt Norlander of CBS Sports was the first to report it.

From the Matt Norlander/CBS Sports report:

This is not a shocking vote — far from it. Multiple Ivy League sources, dating back to early September, expressed pessimism about the notion that league presidents would allow for winter sports/a basketball season. Some programs have yet to even hold indoor workouts to this point. Added one source, “We don’t need money to play. In the Ivy League, it’s 100% a health and safety issue.”

As you may recall the Ivy League was the first conference to cancel their 2020 football season while the likes of the Big Ten and Pac-12 and MAC all followed suit, although all three ultimately reversed course and decided to play.

It remains to be seen if the Ivy League will remain on an island with cancelling fall sports or if other conferences will follow their lead before long.

College basketball is set to get underway in just two weeks.

Stay tuned and buckle up.

USA TODAY Sports’ college football COVID-19 tracker

Florida Gators among a veritable plethora of college football programs affected by the coronavirus pandemic this fall, as well as SEC foes.

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Editor’s note: This article was originally published by USA TODAY Sports and has been republished in its entirety below. 

The college football season has already seen its share of fits and starts with games postponed or canceled due to COVID-19 issues. Such disruptions were not entirely unexpected, which is why most leagues that elected to play built in some flexibility with a reduced number of games and pushed back their championship games.

Nevertheless, some of these non-conference contests might not be made up.

Here’s a list of all the match-ups that have been affected since the start of the season. This list does not include previously scheduled games dropped when conferences decided not to play or revamped their scheduling models over the summer.

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*Louisiana-Monroe at Troy, Sept. 5 — Postponed to Dec. 5.

SMU at TCU, Sept. 11 — Canceled.

Florida International at Central Florida, Sept. 12 — Canceled.

*North Carolina State at Virginia Tech, Sept. 12 — Played on Sept. 26.

Marshall at East Carolina, Sept. 12 — Postponed, no makeup date yet.

Tulsa at Oklahoma State, Sept. 12 — Played on Sept. 19.

Louisiana Tech at Baylor, Sept. 12 — Canceled

*Houston at Memphis, Sept. 18 — Postponed until Dec. 5.

Brigham Young at Army, Sept. 19 — Postponed, no makeup date yet.

Central Arkansas at Arkansas State, Sept. 19 — Played to Oct. 10.

Charlotte at North Carolina, Sept. 19 — Canceled.

Florida Atlantic at Georgia Southern, Sept. 19 — Postponed until Dec. 5.

Houston at Baylor, Sept, 19 — Canceled.

*Virginia at Virginia Tech, Sept. 19 — Postponed to Dec. 12.

Memphis at Texas-San Antonio, Sept. 25 — Canceled.

Georgia State at Charlotte, Sept. 26 — Postponed, no makeup date yet.

North Texas at Houston, Sept. 26 — Canceled.

*Notre Dame at Wake Forest, Sept. 26 — Postponed until Dec. 12.

South Florida at Florida Atlantic, Sept. 26 — Postponed, no makeup date yet.

*Temple at Navy, Sept. 26 — Played on Oct. 10.

Tulsa at Arkansas State, Sept. 26 — Postponed, no makeup date yet.

Rice at Marshall, Oct. 3 — Postponed to Dec. 5.

*Troy at South Alabama, Oct. 3 — Postponed until Dec. 12.

*Louisiana-Lafayette at Appalachian State, Oct. 3 — Postponed until Dec. 4.

*Florida Atlantic at Southern Mississippi, Oct. 10 — Postponed to Dec. 10.

*Alabama-Birmingham at Rice, Oct. 10 — Postponed to Dec. 12.

*Appalachian State at Georgia Southern, Oct. 14 — Postponed until Dec. 12.

*Florida International at Charlotte, Oct. 17 — Postponed to Dec. 5.

*Oklahoma State at Baylor, Oct. 17 — Postponed until Dec. 12.

*Vanderbilt at Missouri, Oct. 17 — Postponed until Dec. 12.

*LSU at Florida, Oct. 17 — Postponed until Dec. 12.

*Cincinnati at Tulsa, Oct. 17 — Postponed until Dec. 5.

*Southern Mississippi at Texas-El Paso, Oct. 17 — Postponed to Dec. 5.

*Missouri at Florida, Oct. 24 — Postponed until Oct. 31.

*New Mexico at Colorado State, Oct. 24 — Canceled. Declared no contest.

*Marshall at Florida International, Oct. 30 — Postponed to Dec. 11.

*North Texas at Texas-El Paso, Oct. 31 — Postponed to Dec. 12.

*Wisconsin at Nebraska, Oct. 31 — Canceled. Declared no contest.

*Purdue at Wisconsin, Nov. 7 — Canceled. Declared no contest.

*Florida International at Texas-El Paso, Nov. 7 — Canceled.

*Louisville at Virginia, Nov. 7 — Postponed until Nov. 14.

*Tulsa at Navy, Nov. 7 — Postponed, no makeup date set up.

*Washington at California, Nov. 7 — Canceled. Declared no contest.

*Louisiana Tech at North Texas, Nov. 7 — Postponed. No makeup date set yet.

Air Force at Army, Nov. 7 — Postponed. No makeup date set up.

UTSA at Rice, Nov. 7 — Postponed. No makeup date set up.

Charlotte at Middle Tennessee, Nov. 7 – Postponed. No makeup date set.

Arizona at Utah, Nov. 7 – Canceled. Declared no contest.

*Air Force at Wyoming, Nov. 14 —- Canceled. Declared no contest.

*Auburn at Mississippi State, Nov. 14 — Postponed. Tentative makeup date Dec. 12.

*Memphis at Navy, Nov. 14 — Postponed. No makeup date set.

*Texas A&M at Tennessee, Nov. 14 — Postponed to Dec. 12

*Alabama at LSU, Nov. 14 — Postponed. No makeup date set.

*Georgia at Missouri, Nov. 14 — Postponed. No makeup date set.

*Ohio State at Maryland, Nov. 14 — Canceled. Declared no contest.

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SMU-TCU becomes first Big 12 game postponed due to COVID-19

The SMU-TCU game becomes the first Big 12 game to be cancelled due to COVID-19. The Big 12 also announced roster guidelines.

By now you have probably already heard the news. The Southern Methodist and Texas Christian football game has been postponed due to COVID-19 testing. TCU announced the postponement on Friday.

Texas Christian’s Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Jeremiah Donati released the following statement.

We are are disappointed to announce that our upcoming football game against SMU will not be played as scheduled on September 11. We have agreed with SMU to monitor dates throughout the season to potentially make up the game.

In the course of following CDC guidelines and our aggressive testing and contact tracing strategy, we discovered that some student-athletes and support staff in our football program have tested positive for COVID-19. Those individuals were notified immediately and currently abiding by CDC protocols.

No one is currently facing serious health issues, and we intend to continue our enforcement of strict standards to protect the program and our community. Everyone’s health and safety remains our top priority. We share in your disappointment, but firmly believe we will be ready to resume football activities soon. We will continue to follow prevention and testing protocols and look forward to our Big 12 Conference opener against Iowa State on September 26.

Commissioner Bob Bowlsby stated numerous times when speaking to the media that there would be interruptions. What was unsure were how they would determine when to postpone or cancel a game.

KVUE reporter Jake Garcia tweeted out the thresholds for football cancellations.

TCU is set to visit Austin on Oct. 3 in the Longhorns Big 12 home opener. The Frogs defeated Texas last season in Fort Worth 37-27.

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Netflix cancelled ‘Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj’ and the internet was not happy about it

Man, this is tough.

Through its short two years of existence, Hasan Minhaj’s show Patriot Act had become one of the most popular shows on Netflix.

The show dove into the cultural and political landscape of America and deconstructed it through Minhaj’s incredible storytelling ability.

Its best quality was frequently diving in on global trends and subject matters and making them simple. It was just brilliant. Not only was it comedy, but it was always chock full of essential information about subject matters people encounter on a daily basis. And he frequently used journalism to do it.

And now, after six seasons on the platform, the show has been cancelled and it’s unclear why. Minhaj announced the news on Tuesday morning in a tweet.

The cancellation came out of nowhere despite. And, considering how critically acclaimed the show was, so many people had questions.

The internet went into a frenzy after Minhaj posted the news.

Netflix confirmed the cancellation to Deadline shortly after the news broke,  but they didn’t give a reason for it.

Patriot Act was yet another foray into the late night talk show space for Netflix that they’ve been trying to crack for years. If this show’s cancellation is any indication, they’ve really struggled to get things to stick.

Hopefully, for us, though, Minhaj will be able to continue doing the work he was doing elsewhere at some point. We just have to wait and see until then.

‘Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj’ Canceled After Six Seasons On Netflix

NCAA Chief Medical Officer gives grim outlook for college football

NCAA Chief Medical Officer Brian Hainline went on CNN to detail why college football may not happen in the fall.

The Big 12, ACC and SEC are the three remaining conferences hoping to play college football this season. While they have decided to move forward, there are still obstacles left that could hinder a fall football season. Shortly after midnight on CNN the NCAA Chief Medical Officer Brian Hainline spoke about the outlook for college football.

Our colleagues at the Fighting Irish Wire laid out what Hainline said on air while the world was sleeping.

“The pathway to play sports is so exceedingly narrow right now. Everything would have to line up perfectly.”

“If testing stays as it is, there’s no way we could go forward with sports.”

Added the greater risk is regular students resocializing on campuses. Says that could be “the downfall” if schools can’t handle that.

As we have stated time and time again, the NCAA actually holds zero power or leverage over FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) or Division I as some refer to it. The power all lies in the hands of the conference commissioners like Greg Sankey (SEC) and Bob Bowlsby (Big 12). Clint Lamb of Roll Tide Wire recently tweeted about this happening.

Lamb isn’t the only one to say this as Barrett Sallee of CBS Sports also said that you should expect “sources” to try and wreck the season.

While the schools and conferences in the southern part of the United States are attempting to move forward with football, it seems everyone else wants to stop it. Maybe due to the fact that if a college football season is indeed played, they don’t want to look bad because they called it off to early.

This is always a fluid situation so stay tuned as we keep you updated.

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Stadium’s map shows why SEC is insistent on playing football this fall

Stadium released a map illustrating where FBS football will be played and will it will not, as well as the middle grounds of the division.

College football is currently in a state of disarray unseen in most of our lifetimes, with the novel coronavirus pandemic throwing a monkey wrench into the monolithic machine that is collegiate sports. This chaos is made evident in a visual representation of where Football Bowl Series schools will be playing their games put together recently by Brett McMurphy of Stadium.

On Thursday, the college football insider released his map that illustrates where FBS football will be played and where it will not, as well as the middle grounds of the division. The results are rather striking and in many ways completely unsurprising.

Note that the red states will not be having any FBS programs play in the fall, states in yellow have a mix of some playing, some not and the green states have all FBS programs playing in the fall.

At first glance, there is one particular characteristic of the displayed data that jumps off the map: the cohesion of the southern states in their commitment to playing college football this fall. With every state represented in the Southeastern Conference shaded in green, it is pretty clear why the league seems insistent upon playing out its schedule through the autumn months.

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Josh Webb: The Pac-12 did the right thing

It was just not much of a choice in the end.

The Pac-12 has canceled the fall football season, first reported by Brett McMurphy. The Mountain West, MAC, Big Ten, and now the Pac-12 that have canceled their seasons. The ACC and SEC still hope to play (and the Big 12 is being typically indecisive), but they’re going to have to explain why their plan is better than the plans of the other major conferences, which all have access to the same medical information, data, and advice from doctors. It’s going to be hard to justify playing a season with only two or three Power Five conferences, especially if any of those players come down with a severe case of COVID-19.

It’s simply the right decision at this time. There are too many factors out there to control. Even with team buses and chartered flights, players still have to go through regular airport security and walk past other passengers to board their flight. Then you have the current lack of testing initiatives led by the President of the United States. It’s hard to justify the amount of testing the ACC or SEC would have to do when regular people are struggling to get tested once in their locality. The optics of it would be mind-boggling. They still are mind boggling.

The reality of lengthy travel — for instance, a Kentucky-Alabama game in the SEC — also poses different risks. Then one has to worry about various complicated scenarios. For instance, what if the other team had sick players who had previously tested negative but slipped through the cracks just before a game and took the field somehow. There’s no real way to guarantee safety for these players or the athletic support staff. It’s all an incredible risk for the sake of playing what is now a shell of a season. The idea that they’re going to try to play two seasons in one year is still something that has to be addressed. We’ll do that in a separate column. Right now the conferences will have time to address that, but it’s going to be important to do so.

As it currently stands, a modified non-fall schedule could have players finishing sometime in April or May and then having to turn around and come back in August to begin the next season of play. The human body wasn’t meant to go through that much punishment, and just because they may be young enough and naive enough to think they can handle it, the adults in the room need to recognize that it’s massively unhealthy and could lead to a major increase in injuries during the follow-up season in the fall of 2021.

It’s okay to not have a year of football. It really is. We spend most of our time talking about player safety and improving the quality of life within the game, but then you hear of schools wanting to play during a pandemic; I’m looking right at you, Nebraska.

There are so many mixed messages being sent by those in charge, people who are supposed to be making the responsible decisions. Maybe the pressure of journalists highlighting the issues with trying a season actually did some good. If so, good for them. All we know right now is that most of college football appears to be doing the right thing.