I like the idea of just plain canceling the games that are scheduled for the first 4 weeks of the season.

For independents, that way they can at least keep 8 of their games scheduled.

For most teams in a conference, that means mostly canceling non-conference games. In some cases, maybe 1 or 2 conference games get canceled at most. Sure that may mean an uneven number of conference games for each team, but they can tweak their tie-breaker rules so that a 6-1 team that beat a 7-1 team would win the tie-breaker.

Or maybe they can push out the CCG's to the week of the army-navy game, and everybody can make up 1 game of their choice, probably making up a missing conference game if needed. Army-Navy can move their game up 1 week if Navy is in the CCG.

I don’t think “empty stadiums” will even be an option. The same logic as to why 50k shouldn’t congregate in a stadium also applies to why 250 people shouldn’t congregate on the field.

It’s pretty much find a vaccine or no CFB. I don’t see any in between.

It’ll be interesting what happens with CBS’ gameshow Big Brother this summer. Even with only 16 contestants, I’d give it a 99% chance of cancellation.

IF it’s a shortened season, then you cancel the first X weeks (4? 7? 10?) and transform the first 2 weekends in December to a larger postseason. Teams won’t be butting up against the 12 game limit so there are no “round-robin” limitations. The existing committee then has their hands full seeding an 8- or 16-team playoff and the full 44-game postseason continues as normal.

This is IF the season is neither full nor cancelled.

Honestly they need to scrap 2020 college football season then begin talking about maybe pushing college basketball back to January.

(04-03-2020 03:07 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  I just don’t see it happening folks. If you look at the cases state by state, COVID-19 is very bad in New York and California. What happens on the coasts usually moves toward the middle of the country.

This is going to get worse before it gets better.

The virus may wane in late August but will flair up again this fall in late September to Early October. I haven’t seen the true R Naught yet but in Mid-March they were saying 2.0-2.5. I would venture to guess it is closer to 3.0 - 3.5 in reality.

As much as I want to see college football this fall, I believe it would a terrible decision to bring thousands of fans into the stadiums in the middle of a pandemic.

Actually, California is doing okay. The social distancing seems to be working but we do need more testing. Louisiana and Michigan have much bigger issues. The Mardi Gras celebration on February 25th was a petri dish on steroids. Florida is a ticking time bomb. I would be concerned about Georgia as well.

I am optimistic that we will have a football season, but I would not expect many fans in the stands. At some point down the road (July or August), the country needs to get back to work or the economic devastation is going to take years to come back from. A national lockdown over the next sixty days and increased testing everywhere might get us out of this by August.

During a Saturday press conference, California Governor Gavin Newsom stated that he does not expect normal NFL or college football games to be played in front of full stadiums in the state of California later in the year.

"I'm not anticipating that happening in this state," Newsom said. "We've all seen the headlines over the last couple days in Asia where they opening up certain businesses and now they're starting to roll back those openings because they're starting seeing some spread and there's a boomerang. One has to be very cautious here, one has to be careful not to overpromise."


https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/NFL...179444.php

(04-03-2020 11:00 AM)BigOwensboroCard Wrote:  The only thing that would make sense of shortening the season for ALL of college football would be eliminating out of conference games. This way college football still could have a season of say 8-9 games played starting first of October. This is only if we are able to get ahead of this global epidemic we are witnessing. I think we will have football, but who really knows???

Wow I suggested this, and like so many of you said there was no way schools would be inclined to do so with so much money to lose. Now what do you think of a 9 game conference season? I like it other than the dates they have suggested.

8-week season, starting August 28-29 through October 17. Some games played in stadiums at 15-20% capacity with physical distancing clusters throughout the stadium. Some games played in mostly-empty, limited-access stadiums.

2-3 OOC games and 5-6 conference/divisional games. No FCS-FBS games and no bye week.

Notre Dame plays as a temporary ACC member. BYU and NMSU play as temporary MWC members. UConn (or Army) plays as a temporary AAC member. Army (or UConn), UMass and Liberty play each other in a complete home-away round-robin and get to host FCS opponent.

The college football regular season finishes before the typical flu season really begins.

CCGs held Halloween weekend. Army-Navy game played Veteran's Day, Wednesday, November 11.

NY6 Bowl games plus 3 or 4 other bowls played over the long Thanksgiving weekend. Only about 18-20 teams participate in the bowl games in limited-access venues.

CFP National Championship played Monday, December 7.

(04-06-2020 01:48 PM)YNot Wrote:  8-week season, starting August 28-29 through October 17. Some games played in stadiums at 15-20% capacity with physical distancing clusters throughout the stadium. Some games played in mostly-empty, limited-access stadiums.

2-3 OOC games and 5-6 conference/divisional games. No FCS-FBS games and no bye week.

Notre Dame plays as a temporary ACC member. BYU and NMSU play as temporary MWC members. UConn (or Army) plays as a temporary AAC member. Army (or UConn), UMass and Liberty play each other in a complete home-away round-robin and get to host FCS opponent.

The college football regular season finishes before the typical flu season really begins.

CCGs held Halloween weekend. Army-Navy game played Veteran's Day, Wednesday, November 11.

NY6 Bowl games plus 3 or 4 other bowls played over the long Thanksgiving weekend. Only about 18-20 teams participate in the bowl games in limited-access venues.

CFP National Championship played Monday, December 7.

I'm guessing a shortened season would involve a delay, not moving the schedule moving up.

(04-04-2020 06:29 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote:  

(04-03-2020 03:07 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  I just don’t see it happening folks. If you look at the cases state by state, COVID-19 is very bad in New York and California. What happens on the coasts usually moves toward the middle of the country.

This is going to get worse before it gets better.

The virus may wane in late August but will flair up again this fall in late September to Early October. I haven’t seen the true R Naught yet but in Mid-March they were saying 2.0-2.5. I would venture to guess it is closer to 3.0 - 3.5 in reality.

As much as I want to see college football this fall, I believe it would a terrible decision to bring thousands of fans into the stadiums in the middle of a pandemic.

Actually, California is doing okay. The social distancing seems to be working but we do need more testing. Louisiana and Michigan have much bigger issues. The Mardi Gras celebration on February 25th was a petri dish on steroids. Florida is a ticking time bomb. I would be concerned about Georgia as well.

I am optimistic that we will have a football season, but I would not expect many fans in the stands. At some point down the road (July or August), the country needs to get back to work or the economic devastation is going to take years to come back from. A national lockdown over the next sixty days and increased testing everywhere might get us out of this by August.

I'm not trying to single you out, but Mardi Gras is "celebrated" for more than the one day, it is several weeks. That was some reporter trying to make a splashy headline who didn't know what he/she was talking about. This disease was spreading well before that, probably in late 2019. A number of people got sick for weeks but were negative for known tests at the time and have looked similar to what people have with Corona. Down in the south, we are already have highs in the 80s. We can see how this spreads in the South, but people are going out in groups in boats, outdoor parties. I see this a lot on Facebook, just shaking my head.

(04-07-2020 10:31 AM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  

(04-04-2020 06:29 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote:  

(04-03-2020 03:07 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  I just don’t see it happening folks. If you look at the cases state by state, COVID-19 is very bad in New York and California. What happens on the coasts usually moves toward the middle of the country.

This is going to get worse before it gets better.

The virus may wane in late August but will flair up again this fall in late September to Early October. I haven’t seen the true R Naught yet but in Mid-March they were saying 2.0-2.5. I would venture to guess it is closer to 3.0 - 3.5 in reality.

As much as I want to see college football this fall, I believe it would a terrible decision to bring thousands of fans into the stadiums in the middle of a pandemic.

Actually, California is doing okay. The social distancing seems to be working but we do need more testing. Louisiana and Michigan have much bigger issues. The Mardi Gras celebration on February 25th was a petri dish on steroids. Florida is a ticking time bomb. I would be concerned about Georgia as well.

I am optimistic that we will have a football season, but I would not expect many fans in the stands. At some point down the road (July or August), the country needs to get back to work or the economic devastation is going to take years to come back from. A national lockdown over the next sixty days and increased testing everywhere might get us out of this by August.

I'm not trying to single you out, but Mardi Gras is "celebrated" for more than the one day, it is several weeks. That was some reporter trying to make a splashy headline who didn't know what he/she was talking about. This disease was spreading well before that, probably in late 2019. A number of people got sick for weeks but were negative for known tests at the time and have looked similar to what people have with Corona. Down in the south, we are already have highs in the 80s. We can see how this spreads in the South, but people are going out in groups in boats, outdoor parties. I see this a lot on Facebook, just shaking my head.

Thanks. I kind of knew that, but I just took the National Mardi Gras date of February 25th. I was at the Mardi Gras in February of 1975, when I drove down with some buddies of mine from college in San Marcos, Texas. We were there on a Saturday Night and it was a madhouse. The streets were so packed you could barely move. I have no idea what the other nights were like. That single night experience at Mardi Gras was enough for me. From that experience, holding Mardi Gras this year with the coronavirus seemed like a very bad idea.

(04-07-2020 01:04 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote:  

(04-07-2020 10:31 AM)kevinwmsn Wrote:  

(04-04-2020 06:29 PM)SoCalBobcat78 Wrote:  

(04-03-2020 03:07 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  I just don’t see it happening folks. If you look at the cases state by state, COVID-19 is very bad in New York and California. What happens on the coasts usually moves toward the middle of the country.

This is going to get worse before it gets better.

The virus may wane in late August but will flair up again this fall in late September to Early October. I haven’t seen the true R Naught yet but in Mid-March they were saying 2.0-2.5. I would venture to guess it is closer to 3.0 - 3.5 in reality.

As much as I want to see college football this fall, I believe it would a terrible decision to bring thousands of fans into the stadiums in the middle of a pandemic.

Actually, California is doing okay. The social distancing seems to be working but we do need more testing. Louisiana and Michigan have much bigger issues. The Mardi Gras celebration on February 25th was a petri dish on steroids. Florida is a ticking time bomb. I would be concerned about Georgia as well.

I am optimistic that we will have a football season, but I would not expect many fans in the stands. At some point down the road (July or August), the country needs to get back to work or the economic devastation is going to take years to come back from. A national lockdown over the next sixty days and increased testing everywhere might get us out of this by August.

I'm not trying to single you out, but Mardi Gras is "celebrated" for more than the one day, it is several weeks. That was some reporter trying to make a splashy headline who didn't know what he/she was talking about. This disease was spreading well before that, probably in late 2019. A number of people got sick for weeks but were negative for known tests at the time and have looked similar to what people have with Corona. Down in the south, we are already have highs in the 80s. We can see how this spreads in the South, but people are going out in groups in boats, outdoor parties. I see this a lot on Facebook, just shaking my head.

Thanks. I kind of knew that, but I just took the National Mardi Gras date of February 25th. I was at the Mardi Gras in February of 1975, when I drove down with some buddies of mine from college in San Marcos, Texas. We were there on a Saturday Night and it was a madhouse. The streets were so packed you could barely move. I have no idea what the other nights were like. That single night experience at Mardi Gras was enough for me. From that experience, holding Mardi Gras this year with the coronavirus seemed like a very bad idea.

The Saint Patrick's Parades did get cancelled. I was very learly of going to New Orleans that weekend, glad it cancelled with everything that has happened.