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Canceling the college football season would have a major trickle-down effect on the NFL

With the Coronavirus pandemic still dictating life in the United States, the sports world remains mostly in limbo as fall draws ever nearer. But while we tend to focus on the NFL and the New England Patriots in particular on this here website, we need to take a look at college football as well because its potential and increasingly likely cancelation would have a major impact on the pro level next year.

Let’s start at the beginning, though.

The commissioners of the so-called “Power Five” conferences — the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the Big Ten, the Big 12, the Pac-12 and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) — held an emergency meeting over the weekend to discuss concerns that the upcoming season cannot be played.