Will college football go on as scheduled this fall? Only if campuses are completely reopened to students. That was the message the College Football Playoff Management Committee shared with Vice President Mike Pence on a conference call Wednesday afternoon.
“Our players are students. If we’re not in college, we’re not having contests,” Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby, who was on the call, told CBS Sports.
“Our message was, we need to get universities and colleges back open, that we were education-based programs, and we weren’t going to have sports until we had something closer to normal college going on,” he added.