(11-07-2020 07:25 AM)Saint3333 Wrote: That’s now 20 games postponed or canceled for CUSA this year. 3x SBC.
Maybe CUSA should be called the "COVID Conference"?
CUSA seems to be more negatively impacted by COVID than any other conference this season. Of the
47 FBS football games cancelled or postponed in 2020 due to COVID concerns (see link below), CUSA teams were involved in
19 of them by my count. That's over
40% of the total FBS game cancellations and postponements. AAC teams have been involved in
12 or
25.5% of the cancellations/postponements in 2020, and the Sunbelt --by my count-- was involved in only
8, or
17%.
These stats seem to support my lightly "controversial" theory that some CUSA teams are guilty of using COVID as a "scheduling strategy" in 2020, and not necessarily always cancelling or postponing games each week for
health reasons.
Oh....and these stats don't even include the 12 games that ODU cancelled right out of the gate when the Monarchs declared their entire football season over before it started. These stats also do NOT include Rice's 3 early season cancellations against Army, LSU & Lamar off of Rice's original 2020 schedule.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...e-to-covid-19/
It's puzzling that CUSA is still cancelling and postponing games almost every week (including several this past week), while other conferences seem to have settled a bit. Meanwhile, there were some pretty large crowds at some of the games I watched yesterday (KSU?). And yes, at the end of the Notre Dame game, at least 20K students & fans rushed the field like old times, and were all over each other.