The odds of a college football season are looking more and more bleak, especially after the latest report ESPN released today. Power Conference commissioners held an emergency meeting earlier today, with the outlet reporting that Big Ten presidents are "ready to pull the plug" on their fall sports seasons.
They wanted to first gauge, however, if key decision makers of the other Power Conferences will potentially follow suit. Pac-12 presidents and chancellors, for example, are scheduled to meet on Tuesday.
UPDATE: Yahoo Sports' Pete Thamel tweeted tonight at 10:29 PM ET that Big Ten presidents remain on the cusp of canceling the season, but that the conference isn't ready to announce quite yet.
"The decision is close, but not final," Thamel tweeted. "Big Ten programs have been instructed by Commissioner Kevin Warren to essentially go light in practice tomorrow."
Multiple sources have now told ESPN over the past two days that the postponement or cancelation of the fall college football season seems "inevitable," with those same sources believing it will take one of the Power Conferences — likely either the Big Ten or Pac-12 — to be the first league to cancel their season.
"Nobody wanted to be the first to do it," an anonymous Power Conference coach told ESPN. "And now nobody will want to be the last."
"It feels like no one wants to, but it's reaching the point where someone is going to have to," a Power Conference administrator added.
The MAC became the first FBS conference to cancel its fall football season, when they made the call Saturday. It seems inevitable that the other small leagues will follow suit, and now according to the ESPN report, Power Conferences as well.
Michigan began practice on Friday, but an immediate red flag was when the Big Ten announced none of its league members would be allowed to hold padded practices, but instead practices without helmets only (basically eliminating much/any contact).
Below are a few other discouraging tweets from prominent sources today that are signaling the cancelation of the 2020 season altogether.
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