🏈 Pac-12 university presidents votes and approves a seven-game fall football season

[RollllTide!]

https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/pac-12-early-vote/

The Pac-12 university presidents voted on Thursday to play a seven-game fall football season that will begin Nov. 6-7, the conference announced.

The Pac-12 championship is scheduled for Dec. 18, which would enable the conference champion to be available for selection to the College Football Playoff. Those four teams will be announced Dec. 20.

"Our schools are going to be in position to be part of that conversation," Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said, adding that there is no minimum number of games needed to be considered for the College Football Playoff.

No spectators will be allowed to attend any Pac-12 on-campus sporting events.

All of the Power Five conferences will be playing fall football, but the Pac-12 will be the last of the five to begin its fall season and the only one of the five that will be playing fewer than nine games.

The schedule will be announced in the coming days, but Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said each team would face the other five teams in its own division as well as one other team for the other division. Then the division champions would play each other in the Dec. 18 conference title game after six games, and on the same weekend the other Pac-12 teams would play another team from the other division.

 

[alabama mike]

The ONLY REASON the PAC 12 is going to play, IMO, is because the Big 10 finally woke up and realized the other 3 P5 schools were not going to shut down AND $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

The ONLY REASON the PAC 12 is going to play, IMO, is because the Big 10 finally woke up and realized the other 3 P5 schools were not going to shut down AND $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

The multimillions that go along from CF playoffs. Even if not in

they may be stupid,.....but arent fools

 

[planomateo]

Have to wonder if they would get the TV contract money if they didn't play football. Love the the so called elites have folded like a cheap seat.

 

[OldPlayer]

So a 4-3 team from the Pac12 could go to a bowl game?

 

[im4uainva]

Probably.

ROLL TIDE!

 

[BamaFan334]

So a 4-3 team from the Pac12 could go to a bowl game?

Finally gives UCLA and Oregon State a chance.

 

[MunchyOs]

We haven't heard anything else about myocarditis

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

. 7 games. In the PAC. They will be fresh as daisies after that schedule. What a joke

my opinion is f’em. They shouldn’t have been candy asses. Go ahead and play your pissant 7 games and then go back home cause you don’t get any postseason consideration. But that is just me

 

[TerryP]

We haven't heard anything else about myocarditis

August 2nd, PAC players submit their lists of demands.
Nine days later the PAC cancels their season.

Where are those demands today?

 

[MunchyOs]

Since the playoffs started, the Pac 12 has made it in twice. Oregon in 2014 who had the Heisman winner. Take away Mariota, and that is a different team. Even with Mariota, they got skull drug by tOSU. Washington in 2016. A good, but not great team that back doored their way in. We played pretty poorly in the semifinal against them and still won by double digits. They are delusional beyond words if they think that this will be their year.

 

[TerryP]

We haven't heard anything else about myocarditis

I've been watching ESPN2 for the last half of an hour and Larry Scott has mentioned in several clips; Cristobal and Helton have as well.

It's interesting hearing "we're setting up follow up procedures" while Alabama has been doing that since the players returned in June. That's for the football team. Jeff Allen said they've been watching it since April.

 

[TerryP]

Since the playoffs started, the Pac 12 has made it in twice. Oregon in 2014 who had the Heisman winner. Take away Mariota, and that is a different team. Even with Mariota, they got skull drug by tOSU. Washington in 2016. A good, but not great team that back doored their way in. We played pretty poorly in the semifinal against them and still won by double digits. They are delusional beyond words if they think that this will be their year.

There's one thing that still separates the PAC from the other P5 conferences. Take the B1G, even though they've just announced their coming back those players have been working out and practicing. The PAC hasn't been through conditioning in quite some time.

 

[barkgrater]

Oregon football in particular in unnecessary

 

[planomateo]

Bunch of chicken shits for not sticking to their original decision.


This article...

"rushing into the season after you’ve unnecessarily delayed is like chasing a mistake with an even worse one"

Canzano: Pac-12 Conference unified football decision is both a beauty and a curse

Conference votes to stick together.

www.oregonlive.com

 

[Justneedme81]

So I have a question. With everyone almost back, anyone thinks that SWAC conference will follow though and attempt to play this fall?

2. all the talk about furlough and laying off people.... and then they decided to play football. Would that mean most people will get their jobs back?

 

[mando]

So I have a question. With everyone almost back, anyone thinks that SWAC conference will follow though and attempt to play this fall?

2. all the talk about furlough and laying off people.... and then they decided to play football. Would that mean most people will get their jobs back?

There is still a financial deficit due to small crowds allowed in the stadium. Of course this is still better than it would have been.

 

[TerryP]

There is still a financial deficit due to small crowds allowed in the stadium.

The SWAC had an attendance problem before C-19 began only averaging about 50% (attendance vs capacity.) Jackson State has the largest stadium (over 60K) and normally host about 30K fans. The remaining teams have stadiums ranging from 29K on down to 15K or so.

Capacity limitations certainly don't help but it's not to the degree we see with the other 130 or so FBS programs.

 

[mando]

The SWAC had an attendance problem before C-19 began only averaging about 50% (attendance vs capacity.) Jackson State has the largest stadium (over 60K) and normally host about 30K fans. The remaining teams have stadiums ranging from 29K on down to 15K or so.

Capacity limitations certainly don't help but it's not to the degree we see with the other 130 or so FBS programs.

Yeah I was mainly thinking about the P5 schools. For sure smaller schools that already had challenges will still be impacted. So serious question for a place like Bama how do you make up a $75M deficit. Working in the field I am in people lose their jobs if we are not meeting profit and revenue targets.

 

[rick4bama]

I bet the B1G breg them to come back!