With the calendar approaching August and football season scheduled to kick off games at the end of next month, multiple NCAA conferences, including the American Athletic Conference, continue to hold out on making a decision on football and the other fall sports.
“I don’t know what our ultimate decision is going to be,” AAC commissioner Mike Aresco said Thursday afternoon on SportsTalk 790. “The virus will have a big impact. In the end, what we want to do is make rational decisions.”
The reason for the delay, of course, has to do with the COVID-19 numbers. The United States is averaging over 70,000 new cases per day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.