The question might not be if there will be Colorado football this fall, but just exactly when… and with whom? As the Pac-12 CEO group prepares to meet on Thursday, rumors swirl around of a makeshift season being put together in the recent weeks. However, reversing course—while possible—will be far more complicated than most realize because of local restrictions on some schools due to the current pandemic and dissent arising from within the “Conference of Champions.”
After the long summer of COVID-19 and believing that having a season would be unsafe, four conferences in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision, including the powerful Big Ten and Pac-12, declared that they were postponing fall football with hopes of playing in the spring.