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Power 5 Official: Summer CFB Season Move 'Most Absurd Thing I've Heard so Far'

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A report from Michael Smith of the Sports Business Journal indicated colleges have thought of moving the 2020 football season to the summer to avoid a potential second round of COVID-19 infections in the fall.

At least one Power Five official is not in favor of that thought, however, telling Pat Forde of Sports Illustrated that the idea is "the most absurd thing I've heard so far." The official also said they didn't believe moving the season up was "serious."

Sports Business Journal's John Ourand wrote the following about the concept:

"Every other scenario has the season starting later in the fall, at a time when the coronavirus could be returning for another round of infections as the cool weather returns and a vaccine most likely unavailable until 2021.