On August 5, 2020, the NCAA Board of Governors told each of the three divisions to make their own decisions on their own fall sports relative to health and safety due to the still ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Within hours, Division 2 and Division 3 shut everything down, but Division 1 — you know, the one with big fancy money football involved — didn’t do that.
You can kind of understand why, given the level of football money involved, that the Division 1 schools wouldn’t be interested in immediately cancelling the national championships for fall sports.