Shortly after the Big 10 postponed its 2020 football season earlier this week, the Pac-12 conference followed suit and postponed all sport competitions through the end of the calendar year. This marks the second power five conference that will not play football this fall.
The decision has ramifications that will ripple so far as to change the entire landscape of college football permanently, and it starts with the student-athletes who were scheduled to play this fall in a conference that is not. Phones are already ringing off the hook from SEC, ACC and Big 12 teams, hoping to sway potential transfers from spring football teams to regularly scheduled regions.