[JustAnotherFan]

UConn becomes first FBS team to cancel football season due to coronavirus. 

The dominoes continue to fall. There will be no college football this year. 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...oronavirus

I suspect you're correct but UConn in a particularly untenable positoin:  an independent w/o the draw/interest of ND  (and ND aligned with ACC for football this season).  In other words, I don't think P5 schools will say "UConn packed it in, so that's it for all of us" (even if they may get there eventually).  There is a lot more at stake for P5 schools.

The Big 10 announced today they will be playing on Labor Day weekend. I guess this is the "right" move if you are intent on pulling off a full season (two scheduled byes when make-up games might be played). It seems foolishly optimistic, though the conference in making the announcement also said they could still push back the start date to later in September.

https://sports.yahoo.com/big-ten-footbal...ncaaf.html

I just looked at the schedule, and it is clear that it will be hard to impossible to be able to get all the games in if there are team quarantines. I looked at Illinois' schedule (granted, no chance of actually winning their Division, normally) and if they miss their first two games they cannot play all of their games. Their scheduled bye weeks don't match up with others. Also, a late season quarantine would destroy any hopes of getting in all the games even if it were theoretically possible to make a season happen. They should just move the Conference championship back to mid-December if they want to have a prayer of getting a full season in with makeup games. Or they need to figure out a way to determine Division champs with numerous missed games. Do they go by winning percentage knowing that not all teams will play the same number of games? Imagine a clearly superior Ohio State team losing out to a Penn State team for the Division because Ohio State had an aggressive approach to playing games leaving them with a 7-1 record (losing to Michigan but Michigan failed to show up for their games against Minnesota and Michigan State) while Penn State only plays 4 games but wins them all (Northwestern, Indiana, Rutgers, Maryland). Penn State all of a sudden conveniently has an outbreak before their game against Ohio State. Does PSU go on to play .... Nebraska in the conference championship game? 

They should just pull the plug.

[JustAnotherFan]

UConn becomes first FBS team to cancel football season due to coronavirus. 

The dominoes continue to fall. There will be no college football this year. 

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...oronavirus

I suspect you're correct but UConn in a particularly untenable positoin:  an independent w/o the draw/interest of ND  (and ND aligned with ACC for football this season).  In other words, I don't think P5 schools will say "UConn packed it in, so that's it for all of us" (even if they may get there eventually).  There is a lot more at stake for P5 schools.

The Big 10 announced today they will be playing on Labor Day weekend. I guess this is the "right" move if you are intent on pulling off a full season (two scheduled byes when make-up games might be played). It seems foolishly optimistic, though the conference in making the announcement also said they could still push back the start date to later in September.

https://sports.yahoo.com/big-ten-footbal...ncaaf.html

I just looked at the schedule, and it is clear that it will be hard to impossible to be able to get all the games in if there are team quarantines. I looked at Illinois' schedule (granted, no chance of actually winning their Division, normally) and if they miss their first two games they cannot play all of their games. Their scheduled bye weeks don't match up with others. Also, a late season quarantine would destroy any hopes of getting in all the games even if it were theoretically possible to make a season happen. They should just move the Conference championship back to mid-December if they want to have a prayer of getting a full season in with makeup games. Or they need to figure out a way to determine Division champs with numerous missed games. Do they go by winning percentage knowing that not all teams will play the same number of games? Imagine a clearly superior Ohio State team losing out to a Penn State team for the Division because Ohio State had an aggressive approach to playing games leaving them with a 7-1 record (losing to Michigan but Michigan failed to show up for their games against Minnesota and Michigan State) while Penn State only plays 4 games but wins them all (Northwestern, Indiana, Rutgers, Maryland). Penn State all of a sudden conveniently has an outbreak before their game against Ohio State. Does PSU go on to play .... Nebraska in the conference championship game? 

They should just pull the plug.