FAYETTEVILLE -- Clarity has come at last to the SEC's fall football plans.
SEC presidents and chancellors agreed on Thursday to put in place a 10-game, conference-only schedule with the season opening on Sept. 26. Officials will continue to monitor covid-19 trends in the coming weeks with football practices starting Aug. 7 and students returning to campuses in about a month.
The announcement came one day after the Atlantic Coast Conference announced that it would try to hold an 11-game schedule starting the week of Sept. 7 with one nonconference game included.
An SEC release announcing the scheduling decision said it came after "extensive discussions and through deliberation" with SEC presidents, chancellors and athletic directors, the SEC staff and medical advisors, led by the SEC's Return to Activity and Medical Guidance Task Force.