College Football: How close are all conferences to returning this fall?

After four conferences canceled their college football seasons, the Big Ten overturned their decision. The other leagues may now follow.

On Wednesday morning, the Big Ten announced that it’s restarting its 2020 season, playing an eight-game schedule starting in late October.

It had been a disastrous month from a PR standpoint for the conference. After watching the players, coaches, parents and fans all revolt against the decisions made that were shrouded in mystery, the conference finally gave up their stance and decided to start playing games on Oct. 23-24.

Now, pressure has been put on the Pac-12, Mountain West and the MAC to restart their seasons as well. The Conference-USA, the Sun Belt and the AAC have all seen good levels of success. They didn’t postpone their seasons or threaten to cancel. They simply kept with business as usual (with safety adjustments for COVID-19 regulations) and started normally. No adjustments have been made to their schedules (except for out of conference games that were canceled by their opponents).

That ended up being the smartest thing that they could have done. Now, the other conferences are sitting back watching the other schools play and they sit — for what? Players take to twitter and social media asking the same questions. No conference seems to be able to answer the question.

Now, college football is primed to restart. Here’s what going on around each of the conferences.