NCAA Says No Championships This Fall, Except Maybe Football

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NCAA President Mark Emmert testifies on Capitol Hill in February.

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«If we modify the model – which we have to do anyway because of the virus – shrink the bracket sizes, use predetermined sites and use bubbles or semi-bubble models … there’s a way to do it. Will it be normal? No. Is it doable? Yes. We want to make it work for these students,» Emmert says.

The NCAA chose not to regulate football this way and it’s been a fractured and piecemeal decision-making process over the past two weeks. College football is a multi-billion dollar business. Many smaller football conferences chose to cancel or postpone play until next year. Even several of the marquee conferences, the Big Ten and Pac-12, decided to postpone playing football. But three other ‘Power 5’ conferences (the SEC, ACC and Big 12) have decided to try to give it a go.