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Report: Power Five Commissioners Discussing Postponing College Football

by Staff Reporter

August 9, 202058 Comments

Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports

Multiple sources are reporting that the commissioners from the Power Five conference are discussing possibly postponing the college football season amid coronavirus concerns.

Many outlets believe that the Big Ten is leaning towards postponing fall sports and other conferences could follow suit.

On Saturday, a Sports Illustrated source said he thinks 'fall sports will be postponed in all conferences by the end of the week.'

Leaders in the Power Five conference are having meetings now and this week to discuss the situation and we will keep you updated on all developments. Per ESPN:

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Commissioners of the Power 5 conferences held an emergency meeting on Sunday, as there is growing concern among college athletics officials that the upcoming football season and other fall sports can't be played because of the coronavirus pandemic, sources told ESPN.

Several sources have indicated to ESPN that Big Ten presidents, following a meeting on Saturday, are ready to pull the plug on its fall sports season, and they wanted to gauge if commissioners and university presidents and chancellors from the other Power 5 conferences -- the ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC -- will fall in line with them.

Sources told ESPN that a vast majority of Big Ten presidents have indicated that they would vote to postpone football season, hopefully to the spring. A Big Ten official confirmed to ESPN that no official vote took place during Saturday's meeting, but the presidents are set to meet again Sunday night.

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LSU82Cajun•45 months

Everything I thought and wrote for the last few months have come to full fruitation. Church services, schools, health clubs and now College Football are being cancelled by all the CoronoBros, Democratic politicians, leftist Academia and the media. America is allowing itself to be controlled by Blue Governors(Edwards) over the Covid-19 Blitzgrieg . Only mass protest-riots are allowed. All this to defeat Trump and the Republicans in November. Sadly we are capitulating ourselves to this.

CharlesLSU•45 months

What’s crazy is the rest of the world is in on it too. Global conspiracy!!!!!

Tiger4life5803•45 months

@CharlesLSU indeed...I heard On Alex Jones that the blue governors met in secret with world leaders at Bohemian Grove and planned all of this.

Privateer 2007•45 months

Even if these athletes were at risk with COVID(they aren't), it still doesn't matter. Without football they'll just be partying etc more. More likely to catch COVID at the college bar/party than on football field.

Rebel•45 months

LSU 2019 & 2020 National Champs - back to back.

BleedgurpleTX•45 months

If you believe the deaths are as much as reported then you’re clearly not that smart! It’s so beyond false. I personally know people that have been diagnosed when they were clearly not even tested! My mother in law went to the hospital for a pre existing heart issue and she was having a brain scan done because she fainted and lost some oxygen from the heart condition and the doctors attempted to do chest x rays and she lost it in them.. they wanted that money for the test and the false positive test... most reports are fake.

WeeWee•45 months

They are just using the excuse of being worried about the health of the athletes to coverup what they are really scared of. The schools don't want to pay for the cancelled games, schools do not want to lose $$$ by playing in an empty stadium, ESPN, Fox, NBC, CBS and all the media ppl do not want to lose money from lost ratings because sports are just not as good to watch without fans in the stands. Watching the NBA games with virtual fans and MLB with no fans (even though I should be used to it since I am a Marlins fan) is just weird and ruins the product

dagrippa•45 months

its all about liability and appearance.

Tigahs24Seven•45 months

"Well, there has been about 750,000 people killed worldwide. Just saying"... And your point? ... Fact, 1.5 Million Died from tuberculosis last year. Let's just cancel being outside our homes forever... NCAA and College Presidents are a bunch of pussies who can't use any rational part of their so called brains. This is not rocket science. People under 25 do not die from this shite at the same rates as the normal Flu, which actually DOES kill children and young adults. Do we cancel football because of the killer normal flu.. or TB risk? Hell no! ... Those diseases have no political benefit.

will0637•45 months

Stop spreading misinformation. The US has less than 10,000 reported Tuberculosis cases a year and it is nothing new. Also, normal flu is nothing new and, in the US, kills less than half the people in a year that COVID-19 has killed In less than a year

cwil177•45 months

Get out of here with those facts, will

jeff70121•45 months

What a cluster frick. The PGA Championship today was great!

p0845330•45 months

C’mon Lou. Give us the mortality rate, the demographics, and predisposing factors. Don’t hold out.

luciouslou•45 months

You can research all of that crap. I'm just saying that the man said "hoax." If you think the deaths of 750,000 people are a hoax than get your money back on that lsu degree if you got one.

blueboy•45 months

750k worldwide is a fricking joke, Lou, as is your argument.

SilentAssassin•45 months

Your Liberal communists hard at work to destroy America. This is what you get for sitting on your butts and allowing them to do it.

CanebreakCajun•45 months

The progressives won, they destroyed college football.

claremontrich•45 months

well... due to Title IX, that pretty much cancels the majority of men's sports due to lack of funding.

monsterballads•45 months

So LSU is 2021 champions now

Philzilla2k•45 months

Still greatest team ever

Tigers4Lyfe•45 months

Not 2021 champions but still champions until someone else wins it.

Tigers4Lyfe•45 months

Or still reigning champions. They'll always be a champion even after another team wins.

Tiger4life5803•45 months

What I want to know is how long until Rob62 comes in here and writes a 2 page essay about how much he hates liberals and coronavirus?

CaptainJ47•45 months

Can someone tell the MAC they are pussies? Also good luck making a budget without football!

Tigersonfire•45 months

Watched a tennis tournament LAAT NIGHT in Italy. Yes Italy the country everyone thought would completely fall off the earth from this. There was full crowds with face mask.....anyone that thinks this isn’t political is insane.

cwil177•45 months

They are compliant with face masks, which obviously helps. Meanwhile people act like conspiracy theorists here when it comes to wearing a mask.

Tigers4Lyfe•45 months

Are you seriously comparing a game where 2 opponents are literally many yards away from each other to one where 22 are on the field together and engage in physical contact?

FATBOY TIGER•45 months

The liberals have been trying to cancel football for ever. Look who run/ruin these colleges, figure it out yet? This is a dream come true for them. Problem is, most colleges can't stand on their own with out football. Cut your own throat much? Game ain't the same anyway.

terriblegreen•45 months

This is complete insanity. Shutting football down for .004% of the population. If anyone doesn't think this is political, you need to wake the frick up.

CollegeFBRules•45 months

You don’t make a political point by costing yourself millions of dollars. That alone should show you how idiotic your belief this is political is.

ChanceOfRainIsNever•45 months

The ends justify the means to these people, they don’t care who they hurt or how much money they lose. This whole pandemic nonsense is 80% political and 20% fear of liability

Tigers4Lyfe•45 months

Why can't it be both political and real? Sure, it being a think is convenient to use it as s political tool, but that doesn't make it all fake.

LSUTigersVCURams•45 months

Must protect grandma from C’ronavirus

A Menace to Sobriety•45 months

Pussies. Gigantic mother fricking pussies. Cowards, quitters, followers, spineless, etc.

Nix to Twillie•45 months

Just end it already. Rip the band aid off. We keep the title one more year and come back in 2021. It’ll suck not having Chase and a few others, but it’s the same as playing in the spring. And football in the spring is just super weird.

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