//The 2020 College Football Season Deconstruction Project Has Begun

The 2020 College Football Season Deconstruction Project Has Begun

The Big Ten announced it will play a conference-only schedule in 2020. It appears less likely there will be a college football season this year.

The deconstruction of the 2020 college football season accelerated Thursday. Where it ends, we still don’t know. Perhaps in spring 2021. Perhaps there is no ending, because there is no beginning.

The options are simultaneously dwindling and reducing in quality.

The Big Ten pushed us closer to business as unusual with a somewhat jarring announcement that it will play a conference-only schedule. It’s a logical move, but an early one—as one athletic director said, “Why do that on July 9? Why not Aug. 9?” It’s also a depressing move—among the games that will not be played are Wisconsin-Notre Dame, Ohio State-Oregon, Michigan-Washington, Penn State-Virginia Tech and Miami-Michigan State. Some great matchups have been wiped off the books.

Sources told Sports Illustrated that one Big Ten option under