[teejers1]

I think the one thing that can make the ACC, Big 12, and SEC look not so terrible at the end of all of this would be the BigTen trying to make it a go in late October. Is the chance of a 6-0 Ohio State or Michigan (haha) team making the CFP worth the negative exposure of starting as cases are quickly rising? I think the BigTen is bonkers.

"If the presidents vote to start the fall football season, the earliest time frame for kickoff would be mid-to-late October."

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...ace-sunday

But they would be doing it in the context of frequent, fast response testing.  And before Thanksgiving, any remaining students will be gone from campus, so most of the season would be played without interaction with the student body.
In the Big 10 and Pac-10 play in parallel, they can play their own bowl games on their own time frame and blow off th CFP.  You could have the Rose Bowl the day before and the week after the Super Bowl.

Big Ten might play (they would need to flip the votes of 6-7 presidents from a vote taken a mere month ago); Pac 12 will not.

And I'm trying to figure out of that is a good or bad thing for Stanford.  From a football perspective, I lean bad - only because this is Stanford's best chance to have  winning record in the foreseeable future.  However, if they play and Stanford sucks (again), then what?  Shaw isn't going anywhere, so . . . 

I still have my doubts that the college football season will actually be completed.  Maybe.  But there will certainly be a lot of stumbles, cancellations, forfeits, etc. along the way.

From a non-football standpoint, just skip it.  While I generally thin it's safer for a majority of college football players to live within the college football regimen of Covid awareness than live at home without it - particularly if other students are not on campus - that concern is probably less for Cardinal players than the universe of college players at large.

[teejers1]

I think the one thing that can make the ACC, Big 12, and SEC look not so terrible at the end of all of this would be the BigTen trying to make it a go in late October. Is the chance of a 6-0 Ohio State or Michigan (haha) team making the CFP worth the negative exposure of starting as cases are quickly rising? I think the BigTen is bonkers.

"If the presidents vote to start the fall football season, the earliest time frame for kickoff would be mid-to-late October."

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...ace-sunday

But they would be doing it in the context of frequent, fast response testing.  And before Thanksgiving, any remaining students will be gone from campus, so most of the season would be played without interaction with the student body.
In the Big 10 and Pac-10 play in parallel, they can play their own bowl games on their own time frame and blow off th CFP.  You could have the Rose Bowl the day before and the week after the Super Bowl.

Big Ten might play (they would need to flip the votes of 6-7 presidents from a vote taken a mere month ago); Pac 12 will not.

And I'm trying to figure out of that is a good or bad thing for Stanford.  From a football perspective, I lean bad - only because this is Stanford's best chance to have  winning record in the foreseeable future.  However, if they play and Stanford sucks (again), then what?  Shaw isn't going anywhere, so . . . 

I still have my doubts that the college football season will actually be completed.  Maybe.  But there will certainly be a lot of stumbles, cancellations, forfeits, etc. along the way.

From a non-football standpoint, just skip it.  While I generally thin it's safer for a majority of college football players to live within the college football regimen of Covid awareness than live at home without it - particularly if other students are not on campus - that concern is probably less for Cardinal players than the universe of college players at large.