Let’s say public health concerns delay the start of the season for most teams only until late September. Would ADs look to schedule either make-up games or new games at the end of the season? Would conferences consider postponing their CGs to make room for so many make-ups? Would enterprising bowl committees try and stage a regular season “bowl” in early December and attract big name teams?

As a reminder, Army-Navy weekend is still the regular season for college football and there is a decent chance (in this narrow scenario) the fall school semester and it’s finals are postponed as well for many schools.

(04-15-2020 10:29 AM)Crayton Wrote:  Let’s say public health concerns delay the start of the season for most teams only until late September. Would ADs look to schedule either make-up games or new games at the end of the season? Would conferences consider postponing their CGs to make room for so many make-ups? Would enterprising bowl committees try and stage a regular season “bowl” in early December and attract big name teams?

As a reminder, Army-Navy weekend is still the regular season for college football and there is a decent chance (in this narrow scenario) the fall school semester and it’s finals are postponed as well for many schools.

I think that any and all possibilities are on the table at this point. When MLB is talking about possibly having the Cactus League and Grapefruit League be the league alignments this year in order to salvage any type of baseball for TV purposes, I don't think any proposal is too crazy.

That being said, the real possible (probable?) public health issue is that it may not help college football at all to have a delay. If medical experts believe that COVID-19 will come in another wave in the colder months in the fall, then playing more games later in the college football season may actually be more of a public health issue compared to playing just a regular schedule or even moving the schedule up earlier so that games are played in the summer months.

This is the real dilemma for any of the fall sports. Delaying the season isn't really a viable option if there is a second wave of the virus during colder weather months. Yet, if we're still seeing high numbers of cases into June, then no one is going to want to move games to earlier in the summer, either. That's why I feel that we're either going to get a normal football season as-is or we're not going to get any football at all. Unfortunately, the latter seems to be more likely.