Scheduling is the topic on everyone’s minds in college football. This stems from the B1G 10 and PAC-12 coming out and cancelling their out of conference schedules for 2020. With this came much mourning of games lost, like Oregon-Ohio State. Questions came, like what happens to Notre Dame in a conference-play-only world?
Those are worthwhile, if not over-talked about questions. However, as out of conference games get cancelled, questions arise for the Group of Five. All these conferences rely on the Power 5 for pay games, which can be massive figures in terms of a program’s budget. Take UMass, an Independent.