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Battle of Football Island: 6 FBS Conferences Stand Their Ground to Play the 2020 Season

Amid the rising seas of pandemic postponements, Football Island now is the only thing left.

That eroding strip of land is where the final battle for college athletics will be fought in an endless summer of angst. Part passion, part politics and part pay checks, this squabble comes down to two remaining outcomes: six of the 10 Football Bowl Subdivision conferences (three superpowers, three tag-alongs) defend the island and keep trying to play; or the last holdouts submit to the tides and submerge until 2021.

The rest of the college athletics archipelago disappeared Thursday. Someone bearing a strong resemblance to Mark Emmert (remember him?