FAYETTEVILLE -- When the Southeastern Conference released its additional two games for a league-only slate late Friday afternoon and hyped it like a bracket release, the sense of a real possibility for fall football was vivid.
The next two days changed the tenor of the conversation.
The Power 5 conference commissioners met Sunday to discuss mounting concern about whether a college football season can be played in a pandemic, and players took to social media to urge leaders to let them play.
Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said no decisions on the season have been made but conceded the outlook has not improved.