More and more, it looks like the ramp-up to what officials hope is a full college football season will begin in mid-July.
Yahoo Sports reported last week that the NCAA Division I football oversight committee was leaning toward a six-week preseason camp, about two weeks longer than the normal beginning to the season.
NCAA approval could come the middle of this month, according to Yahoo.
The COVID-19-forced cancellation of most spring football practices and on-campus workouts has forced significant adjustments in the schedule.
“Well, we’ve always known that we needed to get back somewhere around the middle of July,” Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said during a teleconference last Friday at the end of virtual conference spring meetings.