Well, the SEC has agreed to a conference only season. So there goes our money game with Auburn. But we'll still have to pay Hopson and staff, plus travel expenses to Denton, TX, El Paso, TX, Bowling Green, KY and Lynchburg, VA. I imagine in some way we'll survive to next season if things return to normal, but we'll probably be on life support.

The point made by Bleacher Eagle is very valid. With the Power 5 conferences playing only conference games, it could be the catalyst to rejecting the status quo. I could see them seeing a shortened season as a good thing. The obstacle to an expanded playoff has been the 12 game seasons. They may figure they can have a shortened season and an expanded 16 or 32 team playoff scenario (power conference teams ONLY). And even if they don't, they may decide to play a power conference only OOC schedule. If anything like that happens it will essentially be the death of Southern Miss football. At least the way most people have historically viewed it. If we were in a position that we never played a power conference team again, I see fan support vanishing. It wouldn't surprise me if average attendance was 5000 or less. The Group of Five teams will be the new FCS.