2020 college football schedule news: MAC cancels fall season, Big Ten delays padded practices Here is the latest information on how athletic conferences are proceeding amid the pandemic
"There are simply too many unknowns to put our student-athletes into situations that are not clearly understood," Steinbrecher said. & There are hurdles to clear, including the prospect of playing two seasons in one year, and there's no guarantee a COVID-19 vaccine will be readily available by that time.
The Mid-American Conference (MAC) officially canceled its 2020 college football season on Saturday because of concerns about the health and … The Mid-American Conference canceled the fall sports Saturday by unanimous vote from university presidents. "I would tell you that I know there are conversations going on.
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As such, the 12-member league will become the first FBS conference to decide not to play this fall.The MAC's decision to not play this fall extends to all sports. Most of those games were canceled when the Power Five went to exclusively or mostly conference games. No EMU, CMU, WMU football in 2020: MAC is first FBS conference to cancel fall sports. Play Now "It's their own decisions, their own choices.
Additionally, private COVID-19 testing is expensive and even abiding by the minimum standard of one test per week could cost programs significant sums of money over the course of a season.Though Steinbrecher insisted his league would play college football in 2020 despite losing those games, the coronavirus pandemic has not eased or shown significant signs of improvement over the last month. There were 11 Big Ten vs. MAC nonconference games scheduled in 2020 with payouts to MAC schools set to approach nearly $11 million in those games alone. MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said in a Saturday morning press conference that the decision to cancel fall sports was unanimous among league … It … The conference intends on attempting to play a football season -- along with the rest of the conference's fall sports -- in spring 2021. I hope, based on my interactions with (our players) over the year, that they're having positive experiences, and as a result of that, they'll continue to be active participants where they're at.What is predictable, at least according to Wetherbee and Beauregard, is that the MAC won't be the only FBS conference not playing college football in the fall. Eastern Michigan athletic director Scott Wetherbee saw what happened Saturday in the Mid-American Conference, and he believes it's only the beginning of the most chaotic lead-up to a college football season in history.It's the first time the MAC has canceled a football season since the league's inception in 1946. A meeting of its presidents earlier in the week was expected to produce an agreement on how to go about a fall season, but instead some schools pushed to not play.The final decision was kicked to a Saturday morning meeting.
The Council of Presidents unanimously voted to take this action with the health and safety of its student-athletes, coaches and communities as its top priority.
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