The Power-5 college football conference seasons are hanging on by a thread, and the SEC might be the final holdout
While we admire college football’s finest, such as Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields, for making their thoughts on he subject extraordinarily clear, Power-5 University Presidents across the country appear to be leaning towards canceling or rescheduling the 2020 football season for liability reasons.
Per Dan Patrick, the Big 10 and Pac-12 are already out, with the ACC and Big 12 potentially to follow. The SEC, however, has taken a different approach, hoping to have their own conference season and own Saturdays this fall. Such a decision would bring with it a new television deal which would be split between the schools, making money a prime motivator here, especially considering many of the student-athletes are on board.
The SEC could be the last Power-5 conference left standing
DP was told an hour ago that the Big 10 and Pac 12 will cancel their football seasons tomorrow... The ACC and the Big 12 are on the fence.. And the SEC is trying to get teams to join them for a season.
— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) August 10, 2020
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Not only is the SEC battling against such a movement to cancel the season, should the ACC and Big 12 opt out, the SEC could reach out to individual schools in hopes of adding them to the schedule and creating a mega-conference of sorts, if only for one year.
Paul Finebaum has also heard similar rumblings suggesting that “the college football season is not dead, it’s just only on life support right now.”
Should there, in fact, be no college football season in at least two of the five Power-5 conferences, it creates a ripple effect the likes of which we’ve never seen in amateur athletics. First, it goes against the wishes of some of those conferences’ greatest stars, including the aforementioned Fields, who could very well enter the 2021 NFL Draft rather than wait another year for his chance to lead Ohio State back to the CFP.
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