(cbs/si) The NCAA Board of Governors is scheduled to consider voting on whether to cancel fall championships Friday.
Emporia State President Allison Garrett is a member of the NCAA Board of Governors.
One source told CBS Sports that is the only agenda item for the NCAA’s highest governing body.
In essence, Friday could become that go/no go moment for the college football season.
The championships for volleyball, soccer and cross country would also be canceled.
Sports Illustrated in a story added “that the board does not have the power to shut down fall sports seasons in general, but by choosing to cancel the championships, they could theoretically force the hand of conferences to forgo playing any games this fall.”
While the vote would have no direct or immediate impact on the FBS, the implications of such a decision are significant.
The NCAA doesn’t stage an FBS championship. That is controlled by the 130 teams, their conferences, their commissioners, ESPN and the College Football Playoff.
Several conferences and teams in lower divisions have already decided not to play at all in the fall.
The MIAA this week announced that the fall sports seasons would not start until the week of September 28th. The football season has been reduced to 7 games.
Meanwhile, for months, the Power Five and the rest of FBS have been balancing the “need” to play — and earn the revenue that comes from those games — with the wisdom of playing at all amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Big Ten and Pac-12 have already moved to conference-only schedules. The SEC, ACC and Big 12 will supposedly decide their near-term futures by the end of the month.
