The hopes of a 2020 Clemson football season are seemingly on life support
While many Clemson football fans still continue to hope that a 2020 season can happen, there aren’t a lot of positive developments heading towards that notion.
Over the weekend, University Presidents from the Big Ten met to discuss the fall football season and reports were that they were strongly in favor of canceling their season. The Big Ten gauged the interest of the rest of the Power-5 conferences in reaching a unified decision, but it seems there is a great divide between those conferences at this time.
Dan Patrick reported Monday morning that the Big Ten and Pac-12 are expected to cancel their football seasons on Tuesday. Currently, the ACC and Big 12 are ‘on the fence’ and the SEC is looking at exclusive TV contracts.
Dan Patrick reports Big Ten had internal vote & by 12-2 margin, league members opted on not having a fall football season. Nebraska & Iowa were only schools that voted to play this fall, @dpshow said. Patrick said Big Ten & Pac-12 would cancel fall seasons Tuesday
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) August 10, 2020
Patrick said the SEC still wants to play as a whole and is trying to buy time to get either the ACC and/or the Big 12 to join them in playing the fall season.
"The Big 10 and Pac 12 will cancel their football seasons tomorrow. The ACC and the Big 12 are on the fence... The SEC is looking at exclusive TV contracts." - @dpshowpic.twitter.com/7pPvRuIS4x
— FanSided (@FanSided) August 10, 2020
The only hopes for a Clemson football season rests in the hands of the ACC going along with the SEC
Bleacher Report’s Senior National CFB Writer Matt Hayes reported Monday morning, as well, that it seems there is an impasse between the Power-5 conferences with the Big Ten and Pac-12 on one side (canceling) and the SEC, ACC and Big 12 (playing).
Power 5 AD just texted me: “It’s looking more and more like it’s Big Ten and Pac-12 vs. SEC, ACC and Big 12."
— Matt Hayes (@MattHayesCFB) August 10, 2020
That report, coupled with the Patrick report, would tell Clemson football fans that the ACC and Big 12- while still on the fence- are still leaning more towards the SEC side of things (playing, or at least attempting to play) than the Big Ten or Pac-12 (canceling and looking at the viability of playing in the spring at a later time).
There is so much up in the air at this point and it’s difficult to decipher what will happen. It’s also going to be interesting to see if any of these conferences acknowledge the massive #WeWantToPlay movement that is happening on social media currently.
College Football is certainly on life support, but it does still seem that there are those in leadership who still want to attempt and play a season in the SEC, ACC and Big 12.