College football moves one step closer to start of 2020 season

College football is well on its way to being back after Thursday’s news.

It’s looking more and more likely that we’ll have college football back in our lives soon.

On Thursday, the NCAA Football Oversight Committee approved an important recommendation to help get our favorite sport back. The committee approved a recommendation to allow coaches to formally work out their players beginning on July 13. It still needs to be approved by the NCAA Division I council, but Yahoo!’s Pete Thamel writes this voting process is really only a formality.

Should a team be playing on Week 0 this year instead of starting the campaign on Week 1, those programs have been notified and will be allowed to formally work out their players a week earlier beginning on July 6. This will allow summer access to begin 25 days before the start of fall camp. So this means that for most programs, fall camp will commence on Aug. 7. Football will be back.

College football is coming back, and we couldn’t be more excited about it.

Thamel outlines the first two weeks of the four-week period before fall camp would be of the eight-hour work week and then transition to a 20-hour one beginning on July 24. This is to help ease the conditioning process, as all players have been away from their coaches since the abrupt end of spring practice because of COVID-19.

Back on June 1, the NCAA allowed schools to host their own voluntary workouts on campus once the moratorium on athletic activities had been lifted. This is why you’ve seen players getting back on campus within the last week or so. They are chomping at the bit to get back to work and get ready for the upcoming college football season. We are excited as the players are for it to return.

Thursday’s news from the NCAA may not seem like much, but it’s everything when it comes to getting college football back in our lives. The oversight committee just outlined what necessary protocol will have to be in place for fall camp and the weeks leading up to it to hopefully go off without a hitch. Being cautious is important, but so is having a firm plan to believe in long-term.

As spring turns to summer, we will hopefully see college football on the horizon of a beautiful fall.

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