Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spent an hour on a Zoom call Friday with the 12 athletics directors of the state's Football Bowl Subdivision schools and told them not to expect capacity at their stadiums to be above 50% this fall, a person with knowledge of the call told USA TODAY Sports. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to make details of the meeting public.
As Texas re-opened amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Abbott had initially said sports stadiums would be allowed to operate at 25% of capacity. He revised that to 50% just a week later, giving rise to hopes that Texas would have a green light to potentially fill stadiums to capacity this fall.