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The Pac-12 released its 10-game conference-only schedule for the 2020 football The Pac-12 released its 10-game conference-only schedule for the 2020 football season on Friday. Following the Big Ten's lead in July, The Pac-12 was one of the first leagues to announce they would be moving to a conference-only schedule. The league will play 5 games at home and 5 games on the road. Sport's Illustrated's host Kaitlin O'Toole is joined with Dan Raley from HuskyMaven for insight on what we can expect to see from the Pac-12 this season. FOR MORE CONTENT FROM SI:  Pelicans, Jazz Kneel for National Anthem Ahead of NBA Restart's First GameNotre Dame's 2020 Alliance With the ACC Is Ultimately a Marriage of ConvenienceDoes LeBron James Have Anything to Prove In the Bubble?Fantasy Football Bust of the Year: Which 2019 Stud Should You Fade in 2020?Christian Pulisic Eyes FA Cup to Add to List of Achievements, Successful First Chelsea SeasonNBA Finals Predictions: Picking Fa...

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The Pac-12 released its 10-game conference-only football schedule for the 2020 season. The Pac-12 released its 10-game conference-only schedule for the 2020 football season Friday. The new schedule will start on Sept. 26, four weeks after the season was originally set to open with Hawaii facing Arizona in a non-conference game on Aug. 29. The conference plans to start Week 1 with an aggressive schedule, including matchups between USC vs. UCLA, Arizona State vs. Arizona and Washington vs. Stanford. All three games were originally scheduled for November. The Pac-12 will also give schools the option to delay the start of the season by a week if needed.  Each team will play five home games and five road games. Any games that are unable to be played on their scheduled date can be made up in their bye weeks or in Week 12 (Dec. 12). The conference championship game is now slated for Dec. 18 or 19 and will be held in a home-hosted model instead of in Las Vegas. Training cam...

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The SEC has decided to play a 10-game, conference-only schedule this fall, eliminating the possibility for an ACC-SEC rivalry game. The SEC has decided to play a 10-game, conference-only schedule this fall, sources told Sports Illustrated . Yesterday the ACC released their 11 game schedule leaving an option for 1 non-conference game but the SEC decision today eliminates the possibility for a rivalry game. Sports Illustrated's host Kaitlin O'Toole is joined by SI's senior write Ross Dellenger for insight and his reaction to the conference only schedule. FOR MORE CONTENT FROM SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: Pelicans, Jazz Kneel for National Anthem Ahead of NBA Restart's First GameNotre Dame's 2020 Alliance With the ACC Is Ultimately a Marriage of ConvenienceDoes LeBron James Have Anything to Prove In the Bubble?Fantasy Football Bust of the Year: Which 2019 Stud Should You Fade in 2020?Christian Pulisic Eyes FA Cup to Add to List of Achievements, Successful First Chelsea Seas...

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The SEC’s decision to play a 10-game conference-only model in 2020 eliminated some of college football's biggest rivalry games. If 2020 wasn’t already bad enough, it will not include the following: Florida-Florida State. Georgia-Georgia Tech. South Carolina-Clemson. Texas-LSU. Tennessee-Oklahoma. Arkansas-Notre Dame. The SEC’s decision Thursday to adopt a 10-game conference-only model came at a price. Some of college football’s biggest marquee matchups are eliminated. This feels weird. It doesn’t feel right. In fact, it feels terrible. So, it feels very 2020. Administrators from some of those schools fought to preserve those games—South Carolina’s president even voted against the scheduling model—but alas, it couldn’t be done. This is 2020—the Year of the Terrible—and we’ll all need to come to grips with a season, if played at all, that is beyond the bizarre. We’ll try to answer two questions in this column: 1) Why did the SEC chose that schedule model? 2) How might ...

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The conference will kick off three weeks later than the scheduled Labor Day weekend start. The SEC is going at it alone. Presidents from the nation’s premier college football conference adopted a plan to play a 10-game, conference-only schedule this fall, sources told Sports Illustrated on Thursday. The league will kick off the season Sept. 26, three weeks later than the scheduled Labor Day weekend start. While the SEC’s divisional structure is expected to remain the same—winners of two seven-team divisions playing in a Dec. 19 championship game—league teams will play two more opponents from their opposite division. A normal SEC schedule includes eight conference games—six against inner-division teams, one against a permanent team from the opposite division and one against a rotating team from the opposite division. The decision Thursday was not a surprise. SI reported the potential plan in a story Wednesday. However, many believed the ACC’s announcement Wednesday regarding its...

Numerous victims who claim they were molested by a University of Michigan doctor filed a lawsuit against the school Thursday, and one, a former football player, said he told famous coach Bo Shembechler about the abuse at the time in the 1980s. Sports Illustrated host Robin Lundberg talked with Brandon Brown of WolverineDigest  to get the latest on the story as well as what it could mean for Shembechler's legacy at Michigan.

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If there are college sports this season, the NCAA says it will allow student-athletes across all sports to wear patches on their jerseys to show support to social justice initiatives. If there are college sports this season, the NCAA says it will allow student-athletes across all sports to wear patches on their jerseys to show support to social justice initiatives.  The NCAA announced Thursday that patches can be displayed on the front of jerseys and placed on the front or sleeve of the uniform or placed on the back of the uniform, where the player name is traditionally located.  The NCAA said that it will "allow names/words intended to celebrate or memorialize people, events or other causes." The messages can vary by athlete, though, the NCAA says it is "intended to celebrate or memorialize people, events or other causes." The decision by the NCAA follows the lead of the NBA and WNBA, who both are allowing their athletes to voice social justice messages on th...

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SI's Pat Forde shares the update on the long-independent Fighting Irish The Notre Dame Fighting Irish have been famously independent in college football for years, but in 2020 The Fighting Irish will be full members of the ACC. The team has been playing since 1887 and this is their first year with an official conference affiliation. Sports Illustrated senior writer Pat Forde shares the latest on ND and his thoughts on them joining the ACC for the 2020 college football season. 

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ACC tweets out 2020 college football schedule to include Notre Dame With the coronavirus pandemic moving full speed ahead, we still don't know if there will be a college football season but we do know that each conference is only looking out for itself.  On Wednesday the ACC tweeted out its 2020 football schedule making big moves with the inclusion of Notre Dame. They also announced a desire to play one non-conference game but did not identify who that school would be. They did however announce it had to be another in-state school a subtle nudge at the SEC. Sports Illustrated's host Kaitlin O'Toole is joined by SI's national writer Pat Forde for more conference details. FOR CONTENT FROM SPORTS ILLUSTRATED:  MLB's Disaster Offers a Warning to Other Returning SportsEddie Edwards’s Long Road in Wrestling Leads to Second Impact Title ReignDoes LeBron James Have Anything to Prove In the Bubble?Without Justin Verlander, Where Do Astros Go From Here? C helsea, Lampa...

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With SEC chess pieces moving behind the scenes, the ACC launched a surprise checkmate on Wednesday in the ongoing college football schedule saga. They stressed unity. They had Zoom calls together for weeks, months. They were all in this together, the commissioners of college football’s power conferences, trying to navigate a challenge the likes of which they’d never seen before. Yeah, good talk. That was in the spring, when both camaraderie and the football season were easy to envision in the abstract. Here in the heat of July, with time ticking toward a maybe kickoff, they all have reverted to form. Now and forever, it’s every rich conference for itself in college football. This is part of the deal in a patchwork of 130 schools with no legitimate unifying element. It was that way a decade ago, when realignment turned into a brazen series of land grabs purely designed to maximize individual league revenue. It was that way earlier this month, when the Big Ten and Pac-12 were the f...

The New Jersey health commissioner said Wednesday that 15 Rutgers football players have tested positive for COVID-19. A coronavirus outbreak within the Rutgers football program that's resulted in 15 players testing positive has been tied to an on-campus party attended by several players, according to Keith Sargeant of NJ.com . Sargeant reports the party was attended by athletes from multiple Rutgers sports programs. Rutgers halted its football workouts and placed the entire program under quarantine on Saturday after the school announced 10 positive tests—six from players, and four from other members of the program. Judith Persichilli, the New Jersey health commissioner, acknowledged “several circumstances where indoor and outdoor gatherings in our state have led to community clusters of COVID-19" during a news briefing Wednesday, and included Rutgers among other known parties that have caused COVID-19 outbreaks. “There’s been an outbreak of Rutgers football players, wit...

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Arizona head coach Kevin Sumlin: "If you’re not gonna pay attention to the protocol, wear a mask, all that other stuff, we just can’t have you around.” Arizona suspended offensive lineman Edgar Burrola for violating the athletic department's COVID-19 protocols on Tuesday. Burrola started six games at right tackle for the Wildcats in 2019. He remains on the roster with a reduced scholarship, per Tuscon.com's Michael Lev .  The redshirt junior reportedly resisted safety protocols, including masks and social distancing during Arizona's voluntary on-campus workouts. Three Wildcats have tested positive for the coronavirus since workouts began. “It’s my job to protect and uphold that protocol for everybody else that’s involved in this organization — players, coaches, administrators, medical [personnel]," Arizona head coach Kevin Sumlin told Lev. “If you’re not gonna pay attention to the protocol, wear a mask, all that other stuff, we just can’t have you around.” B...

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All ACC schools are slated to play 10 conference games and one non-conference contest in 2020. The ACC announced on Wednesday its plan to begin seven fall sports , including football, during the week of Sept. 7-12.  ACC football teams are slated to play an 11-game season in 2020, with 10 conference games and one non-conference matchups. The league says that each non-conference opponent "must be played in the home state of the ACC institution, and all non-conference opponents must meet the medical protocol requirements as agreed upon by the ACC." Notre Dame will also be included in the ACC schedule in 2020 , with its conference opponents being Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Louisville, Syracuse, Boston College, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Pittsburgh and Wake Forest. The Fighting Irish will be eligible to compete for the ACC championship for the first time, per the conference.  All teams will play in one division, with the 2020 ACC championship game slated for either Dec...

Virginia Tech cornerback Caleb Farley, a member of the Jim Thorpe Award watch list, has decided to opt out of the 2020 college football season, he announced Wednesday. Virginia Tech cornerback Caleb Farley, a member of the Jim Thorpe Award watch list, has decided to opt out of the 2020 college football season, he announced Wednesday. "I am opting out due to uncertain health conditions and regulations and all the other opt-outs going on in football right now," he said. "Though the competitor in me badly wants to play this season, I cannot ignore what's going on in my heart and I must make the decision that brings me the most peace." Farley added that he plans on preparing for the 2021 NFL draft. Last season, he led the ACC in passes defended, with 16, and was tied for second in the conference with four interceptions.  Farley was ranked No. 16 by 247Sports in their top-100 players of the 2020 college football season. He is projected to be a first-round ...

The SEC could join the Big Ten and Pac-12 as football conferences to go league-only in 2020. For years, SEC fans have clamored for fewer games against lower-level squads and more big-time matchups with opponents of their own teams’ stature. It took a pandemic, but they may get their wish. The SEC is moving closer to an agreement on a conference-only schedule of 10 games, multiple sources told Sports Illustrated . During a virtual meeting on Wednesday, a majority of athletic directors approved the idea of an SEC-only, 10-game schedule. However, the schedule must be ratified by league presidents. SEC presidents are expected to meet virtually Thursday to seriously discuss the matter. It is unclear if they will vote then or delay a decision until next week. The NCAA Board of Governors is scheduled to meet Tuesday in what could be a momentous event for the 2020–21 college athletic season. Officials there could postpone or cancel fall championships, eliminating year-ending championships ...

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Emmert thinks a delayed start to fall sports and a shortened schedule could be "very helpful" amid the coronavirus pandemic. NCAA president Mark Emmert expressed his concerns about the upcoming fall sports schedule and why he thinks a delayed start and shortened number of games could be "very helpful" amid the coronavirus pandemic. During an interview with ESPN's Heather Dinich , Emmert said observing how professional sports handle their return-to-play plans has provided the NCAA with plenty of insight.  "We get to see how the testing protocols emerge and how that can be more effective, especially if we can get antigen testing going, for keeping track of the virus on campuses. The fact a delay could provide us with time to do all that could be very, very useful. "Also, the move to a smaller number of games can be really helpful because you've got bigger breaks between games then, and you could provide flexibility around schedules," he said...

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Without the ability to put players in a campus bubble, college football is facing a tough road forward. As a running back at Stanford some 15 years ago, Gerald Commissiong and his teammates operated within a metaphorical, protective sphere. They were ostracized from the rest of the world. If you weren’t a staff member, coach or player with the Cardinal, you were not allowed inside the sphere. “We actually called it a bubble when I was on campus,” says Commissiong, who conveniently is now the CEO of a biotechnology company exploring advancements in COVID-19 testing. “Campus was a bubble.” Nearly two decades later, the word bubble is as prevalent in the sports world as terms like touchdown, home run and free throw. Without leagues operating within a so-called bubble, uninterrupted sports in America—where COVID-19 cases are on the rise—may be difficult if not impossible, experts say. The NBA is paving the way, sequestering players, game workers, coaches and media in an Orlando sphere...

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After weeks of delaying, the clock is ticking on figuring out a 2020 season and what it would look like. In the long-ago spring, when time was an ally, some college athletic leaders targeted June 1 as a deadline for declaring the fate of the football season. Then that became June 15 … then July 1 … then July 15. The worse the outlook got, the longer everyone wanted to put off potentially cataclysmic decisions. And so the can has been kicked so far down the road that it has crossed state lines. Now, here in the final week of July, just over a month from the scheduled start to the season, the battered can has come to rest at a fork in said road. Decisions finally must be made. College football this fall, or not? If so, when? And how much? This week should provide some answers. Maybe not the final answers, but some plans must be agreed upon—or abandoned. “When this (pandemic) started, we said, ‘O.K., we’ve got four months to figure it out,’“ one FBS commissioner told Sports Illustra...

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