The field for the 12-team College Football Playoff will comprise five conference champions and seven at-large selections after the university presidents who oversee the CFP voted unanimously Tuesday to tweak the format.
The Atlantic Coast Conference has cleared the way for Stanford, California and SMU to join the league next year, two people with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Friday, providing a landing spot for two more teams from the disintegrating Pac-12.
Pac-12 reporter Jon Wilner reported that both USC and UCLA is preparing to jump ship from the Pac-12 to join the Big Ten.
On Monday, the Knights found out they will battle the West Virginia Mountaineers in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl on December 31.
The Pac-12 set a Nov. 6 start date Thursday for a seven-game football season, following the Big Ten in overturning an August decision to postpone until spring because of concerns about playing through the pandemic.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the Pac-12 college sports conference to reopen football. “Open up, Pac-12. Get going,” he said.
Columnist Drew Magary took the occasion of his latest San Francisco Chronicle editorial to insist that the crisis caused by the coronavirus is the excuse we need to end college football forever.
The Big 10 will have some company in postponing the 2020 college football season. Shortly after the Big 10 announced their departure, the Pac-12 announced that they too will postpone their season.
“I think football’s making a tragic mistake,” he said.
College football players have organized to launch a “We Want To Play” campaign to urge universities not to shut down their 2020 season.
The commissioners of college football’s Power 5 conferences held a meeting on Sunday to determine whether there would in fact be, a 2020 college football season.
While professional football, baseball, and basketball players have been opting out of their upcoming seasons by the dozens, less has been heard from the nation’s collegiate athletes.
The ACC, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, and Pac-12, all canceled their conference tournaments on Thursday.
