Big news hit the college football world yesterday as both the Big Ten and Pac-12 elected to postpone their fall football seasons with the hope of playing in the spring.
Despite this decision giving the indication that college football being played this fall is becoming heavily in doubt, the Big 12 decided last night to proceed with plans to begin their season in late September.
Source: The Big 12 Presidents are wrapping up their call. The league is going to continue to pursue playing this season. A schedule, which was already prepared, will be released in the near future. This confirms what our @rivals friends at @SoonerScoop reported.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) August 12, 2020
The Big 12 Board of Directors last evening agreed to proceed with plans for the fall sports’ seasons. Full release: https://t.co/iSNG0FLgX5
— Nicole Auerbach 😷 (@NicoleAuerbach) August 12, 2020
Rumblings are that the SEC and ACC will join the Big 12 in planning to begin their season.
Much is still in doubt about whether schools and conferences will elect to play this season, but if the Big 12’s decision is any indication it now seems like at least a few Power Five conferences will attempt to play.
What this means about the Big Ten and Pac 12’s decisions I don’t know, but there is a clear disconnect somewhere about the medical information and the risk of playing a season.
If there was a college football commissioner or president would this disconnect be present? I doubt it. But it will become clear in the coming weeks which conferences will play and why they reached a different conclusion than the ones on the sidelines.