SI Insider: The Calm Before the Storm for College Football

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00:00This week in college athletics has basically been the calm before the storm.

00:10There hasn't been a lot of definitive movement or decisions made in terms of whether we will

00:15have a football season, but that time is coming.

00:18Probably in the next week to 10 days, maybe two weeks, we should be starting to get some

00:23much more clear indications of whether or not we're going to try to play college football.

00:29Specifically, the power conferences that have not made any declarations about their schedules,

00:34the SEC, Big 12, and ACC, will probably announce in some form of lockstep fashion by the end

00:41of July or the first few days of August whether they're aspiring to still play 12 games, whether

00:46they're curtailing back to 10, 9, 8.

00:49And then we may have a couple of weeks or a few days after that where schools will be

00:54waiting to see whether or not they can play at all, and I think they'll be taking cues

00:58at that point from governor's offices, state legislatures, obviously public health officials,

01:05and whatever basically the health parameters are within their states, and also then within

01:10their conferences.

01:11So this week has just kind of been a little bit of a waiting game.

01:15I think next week we'll start to see more substantive news coming out about what the

01:19fall is going to look like in college sports.