Back in April, not long after the NCAA basketball tournaments were canceled because of the pandemic, the idea of moving the college football season to the spring of 2021 already was being tossed around.
Conference commissioners and athletic directors called it a last resort. And when it looked like the fight against the coronavirus might be going well, the idea mostly fell by the wayside.
“We broached it very little in our AD meetings and really haven’t gotten serious about it at all,” Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez recalled Tuesday. “I had one AD from another league call and just talk about it a little bit.”
Time to start talking about it a lot.
The Big Ten and Pac-12 postponed fall football this week, hoping to salvage a spring season like the Mid-American and Mountain West conferences plan to do.