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SEC Plans to Play a 10-Game Conference Football Schedule

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"The powerful Southeastern Conference said Thursday it would eliminate nonconference football games and play a delayed 10-game conference schedule,

SEC teams will kick off their season three weeks later than normal on Sept. 26, a delay that came on the advice of public health officials who have recently watched new coronavirus infections skyrocket in the southeastern U.S.

The shake-up began on July 9, when the Big Ten Conference announced that it was eliminating all nonconference games. The Pac-12 did the same a day later.

There’s also room for one nonconference game, with a stipulation that it take place in the home state of each university. That was meant to preserve traditional in-state rivalries involving SEC opponents, including Louisville-Kentucky, Clemson-South Carolina, Florida-Florida State and Georgia-Georgia Tech. But with the SEC moving to a conference-only slate, those games are likely off the table.

The Big 12 has not yet said how it plans to proceed with its season. In an interview this week, commissioner Bob Bowlsby said the conference’s preference is to play 12 games, stretched over 16 weeks from late August to mid-December. A decision from the conference’s board of directors could come next week.

This all comes with one big caveat: the 2020 college football season could be rendered moot as early as next week. The NCAA Board of Governors will decide next week whether to cancel fall championships for all sports save the top tier of football, which it does not control. The race to the College Football Playoff could go on without any other NCAA sports, but the public health picture may prove that a contact sport with hundreds of players is not feasible in the time of a pandemic."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sec-plans-to-play-a-10-game-conference-football-schedule-11596189601?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1
 
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