The 2020 College Football Season

[buckeyebri]

I know it would suck hard for the players and all the others depending on it financially, but I’m selfishly pretty much okay with no football. It would be kinda nice to see what a fall with free weekends would feel like.

Hell.....my blood pressure would probably hit an all-time low if I didn’t have OSU football to stress me out.

I definitely felt like this coming out of the shot fest that was the Clemson game. I told my wife I was done with college football

Now she is asking me why I’m concerned about the this season....

 

[ScriptOhio]

Thanks to the Pac-12, the Big Ten has football scheduling company.

Thursday afternoon, the Big Ten confirmed reports that it will be going with a conference-only football schedule for the 2020 season. All other fall sports are impacted in the same way. It was expected that the ACC and Pac-12 would quickly follow suit. The ACC, though, released a statement earlier Friday in which that conference revealed it won’t make a decision on. Fall sports until late July.

The Pac-12, however, isn’t waiting as that league announced Friday evening that it too will be going to a conference-only football schedule. As was the case with the Big Ten, this will apply to all fall sports as well.

“The health and safety of our student-athletes and all those connected to Pac-12 sports continues to be our number one priority,” said Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott in a statement. “Our decisions have and will be guided by science and data, and based upon the trends and indicators over the past days, it has become clear that we need to provide ourselves with maximum flexibility to schedule, and to delay any movement to the next phase of return-to-play activities.”

“Competitive sports are an integral part of the educational experience for our student-athletes, and we will do everything that we can to support them in achieving their dreams while at the same time ensuring that their health and safety is at the forefront,” said Michael Schill, Pac-12 CEO Group Chair and President of the University of Oregon.

According to the conference, “student-athletes who choose not to participate in intercollegiate athletics during the coming academic year because of safety concerns about COVID-19 will continue to have their scholarships honored by their university and will remain in good standing with their team.”

The Pac -12 expects to announce its conference-only schedules, including for football, no later than July 31.



Earlier this evening, the Pac-12 announced that, like the Big Ten, it will be going with a conference-only schedule for fall sports, including football. Not long after, the conference announced that its commissioner, Larry Scott, has tested positive for COVID-19.

After experiencing mild flu-like symptoms late this week and out of an abundance of caution, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott was tested for COVID-19. The test for Commissioner Scott came back positive, and as a result he is self-quarantining at the direction of his physician. Commissioner Scott is continuing to carry on his duties remotely as normal.

 

[cincibuck]

There's two more games off the Notre Dame Schedule... Maybe they can get a home and home and Ireland deal with Navy. Forgot - the Ireland gig has already been scratched.

 

[BigWoof31]

Thanks to the Pac-12, the Big Ten has football scheduling company.

Thursday afternoon, the Big Ten confirmed reports that it will be going with a conference-only football schedule for the 2020 season. All other fall sports are impacted in the same way. It was expected that the ACC and Pac-12 would quickly follow suit. The ACC, though, released a statement earlier Friday in which that conference revealed it won’t make a decision on. Fall sports until late July.

The Pac-12, however, isn’t waiting as that league announced Friday evening that it too will be going to a conference-only football schedule. As was the case with the Big Ten, this will apply to all fall sports as well.

“The health and safety of our student-athletes and all those connected to Pac-12 sports continues to be our number one priority,” said Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott in a statement. “Our decisions have and will be guided by science and data, and based upon the trends and indicators over the past days, it has become clear that we need to provide ourselves with maximum flexibility to schedule, and to delay any movement to the next phase of return-to-play activities.”

“Competitive sports are an integral part of the educational experience for our student-athletes, and we will do everything that we can to support them in achieving their dreams while at the same time ensuring that their health and safety is at the forefront,” said Michael Schill, Pac-12 CEO Group Chair and President of the University of Oregon.

According to the conference, “student-athletes who choose not to participate in intercollegiate athletics during the coming academic year because of safety concerns about COVID-19 will continue to have their scholarships honored by their university and will remain in good standing with their team.”

The Pac -12 expects to announce its conference-only schedules, including for football, no later than July 31.



Earlier this evening, the Pac-12 announced that, like the Big Ten, it will be going with a conference-only schedule for fall sports, including football. Not long after, the conference announced that its commissioner, Larry Scott, has tested positive for COVID-19.

After experiencing mild flu-like symptoms late this week and out of an abundance of caution, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott was tested for COVID-19. The test for Commissioner Scott came back positive, and as a result he is self-quarantining at the direction of his physician. Commissioner Scott is continuing to carry on his duties remotely as normal.

Respectfully, I’m starting to take the opinions of the PAC12 less and less seriously. The league is swimming in debt, gets absolutely cooked in playoff games, can’t retain quality coaches and gets its recruiting footprint worked over.

Larry Scott is an incompetent boob. Don’t talk to me about Academics either.
The B1G is an academic league and they figured out the CFB thing pretty well.

When I need opinions about weed or ultimate frisbee, I will consult them PAC12.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

The Domer boards are in full-on whining mode right now. "HOW DARE THE B!G NOT MAKE AN EXCEPTION FOR NOTRE DAME!!!!!!"

Seriously, Notre Dame is like the couple in the gated community that's completely anti-social towards everyone and constantly filing lawsuits against everyone in the neighborhood and then is shocked--shocked I tell you--to find out that nobody gives a fuck when their house burns down. Enjoy the MACtion this year, assholes.

 

[ScriptOhio]

There's two more games off the Notre Dame Schedule... Maybe they can get a home and home and Ireland deal with Navy. Forgot - the Ireland gig has already been scratched.

The Irish still have games slated with Wake Forest, Pittsburgh, Duke, Clemson, Georgia Tech and Louisville from the ACC, Arkansas from the SEC, Navy of the American Athletic Association (AAC), and Western Michigan from the Mid-American (MAC).

Western Michigan, because of a $1.2 million payday for its scheduled Sept. 19 trip to Notre Dame Stadium, are likely inclined to keep that on the slate with other potential possibilities in play with the Midwest-based conference.

Just sayin': Besides the the 6 ACC games, Western Michigan has 1.2 million reasons to show up in South Bend on Sept. 19.

 

[ScriptOhio]

“I might not be the best guy to ask this question to because I've always felt that Notre Dame was always given this special pass and they just enjoy this independence, and that they never had to join a conference," said Howard. "So now if this ends up being a situation that we do have a season and under the guidelines that people are talking now where it's just people will play within their conference, and they're left out in the cold because of decisions that they made, not to ever join the conference when they had the opportunity to join the ACC, then I think that's their problem. It's just coming back to bite them in the butt. So I don't have a problem with a team or school that thought they are beyond joining the conference, and now because teams are playing within their conference that they get left out in the cold."

https://247sports.com/college/notre...lem-With-Notre-Dame-Being-Left-Out-149023153/

Just sayin': Desmond Howard actually got one right; however, he's still an ass hole......

 

[jakenick06]

The Domer boards are in full-on whining mode right now. "HOW DARE THE B!G NOT MAKE AN EXCEPTION FOR NOTRE DAME!!!!!!"

Seriously, Notre Dame is like the couple in the gated community that's completely anti-social towards everyone and constantly filing lawsuits against everyone in the neighborhood and then is shocked--shocked I tell you--to find out that nobody gives a fuck when their house burns down. Enjoy the MACtion this year, assholes.

LMAOOOO I just read about the McCloskey's this AM....math checks out.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Ohio State's 2020 Football Schedule



The main reason for eliminating non-conference games wasn’t necessarily safety, as Smith acknowledged that he has trust that schools from other conferences are following their own protocols for the safety of their student-athletes. Rather, it was about providing flexibility for a season that could have some starts and stops along the way.

In the Big Ten’s mind, it is much easier to shift and change a schedule when you’re only dealing with member institutions, as opposed to also trying to fit any adjustments into the workings of every other conference as well.

It also allows them to begin the season two or three weeks later than planned.

If that doesn’t give you an idea that the Big Ten is not expecting a smooth 2020 college football season, nothing will.

But along with the cancelation of games comes hope.

The Big Ten is making these changes with the hopes of getting as many games played as they can manage — and if Gene Smith and his cohorts get their way, that will include a tenth conference game as well.

That will all be discussed next week, as will the rest of the schedule.

And that schedule could be completely different than the one you’ve been expecting.

About the only thing we can assume is that Ohio State and Michigan will still take place the last week of the season.

But that has not yet been written in magnet.

One interesting aspect of these changes is that according to Smith, “week zero” has been opened up to the Big Ten. This is the week before the September 5 weekend when most teams begin the season.

Teams that are scheduled to play week zero have already been given the go ahead to begin workouts, so if the Big Ten does add week zero to the schedule, those teams would be behind a little bit, but not enough to eliminate it as a possibility.

By adding another week to the schedule, Big Ten teams would be looking at playing 10 games over a 14-week span.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Ohio State's 2020 Football Schedule

Let me get this straight: Gerdeman wants to replace Illinois with the Pedsters as the game leading into The Game? And then he pushes the Illinois game to Nov 7, which is the Indiana game, without moving the Indiana game as needed, essentially cancelling a game against a mandatory divisional opponent in favor of a non-divisional one.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Let me get this straight: Gerdeman wants to replace Illinois with the Pedsters as the game leading into The Game? And then he pushes the Illinois game to Nov 7, which is the Indiana game, without moving the Indiana game as needed, essentially cancelling a game against a mandatory divisional opponent in favor of a non-divisional one.

Yeah, he has an Ohio State vs. Rutgers - Indiana - Illinois triple header on Nov 7 (providing Rutgers participates in the B1G season).

I think his arrows are just a generalization that the B1G will move around/change the original 2020 schedule.

 

[kujirakira]

I’ve said it from day fucking 1.....u cancel OOC games and focus on an 8 game season, in conference only.

That way conferences can solely focus on their own members and create alternative plans if something happens “in house”.

The feedback I’m hearing is humiliating. Conferences (including the Big 10) just plowing ahead “hoping” things get better.

it’s asinine. OOC games are a disaster this year.....it’s not complicated. Why is it taking this long to save the season? Greed????? It’s sick.

These guys are going to blow up entire season over (4) OOC games.

My most current opinion is reinforced by an athletic board member at Iowa...so TIFWIW. I didn’t need his feedback to feel the way I do tho.......common sense is just really hard to find anywhere in 2020.

Too much money involved.

Public vs Private positions... you're mistaking limited Public info for nothing happening behind closed doors.
Take USNA for example... it took them until a couple weeks ago to officially cancel the Ireland trip. But the students were banned by Pentagon from leaving the country since March, with a lift date long after that game.
I think they were waiting for their AD (infamous money grubber) and Notre Dame to reach obvious conclusions before an announcement.

There's furious work going on behind the scenes... see #1.
B1G and Ohio State will figure something out.
I think this is more likely to come crashing apart w/ SEC and L10 at this point... FL, LA, TX all spiking massively... and still seem to think it's a farce.
IL has been the ongoing concern in B1G, but that small spike (compared to FL) has subsided since May.
NE' active cases are plummeting...

And sure enough, they cancelled OOC as many suspected.

re: "could be"

if only people were responsible enough to do the things in march, april, may, june, and july to accomplish the things that could be done in october...

The economy isn't any more capable of letting a grocery store worker take 2wks - 1mo off and survive than it was this time last year.
Politicians could have changed that, but decided to enrich themselves and their donors... unemployment skyrockets w/ Wall St... hope a lot of people are waking up to the reality of this "free market capitalism" scam (while the Politicians hand out Trillions to their buddies).

sure, we'll know more, but we've been in this "it's gonna get better in a few weeks" mode for how long now? might be time to take a view that is beyond a few inches in front of our nose.

Not trying to quote all your posts... you just post the interesting things...
Anyway... I mean, it has subsided for all of the 1st world. Except US. American Exceptionalism proving true in a way a lot of people don't want to admit.
All I see is anti-Trumpers blaming him and people who don't wear masks... but the issue long predates Trump. It's systemic. Biden can't and won't fix it either. Nor will Pelosi or Schumer or McConnell or Ryan or any of these schmucks.

Labor and Public Health policy matters.
Any American that's voted for Clintons, Bushs, Trumps, Obama, etc. is responsible for this... that's basically all of us.
But nobody wants to face that music... BlueShirts just blame RedShirts, and RedShirts cry about their imaginary "free market" and "rights" (while simultaneously decrying the protests for rights...)

Anyway, back to listening to RATM and my exit plan.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

Anyone know the way to the College Football threads?

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Anyone know the way to the College Football threads?

nope!

 

[Mike80]

Anyone know the way to the College Football threads?

I hear those easy to use ESPN boards are still accessible for $77.95 per month.