If you’re just as passionate about college football season as we are every year, you’re probably asking yourself, “How the hell is this going to work this season?” Believe us when we tell you – so are we.
Bowl organizations have said at multiple outlets on the plate this month that strong efforts will be made to ensure long-term matchup tie-ins happen in the postseason. Associate director of football club association Nick Carparelli also showed these sentiments on 247Sports during an interview with Chris Hummer.
“I feel that this year the final record should be minimized and the agreements that are in place between comedy games and conferences should be prioritized above all else,” Carparelli said. “
You can also expect teams with losing records to fill several spots with more than half of the FBS postponing respective seasons this fall.
In our hypothetical bowl matchup projections prior to the start of the regular season, we will try to stick to Carparelli’s mindset, but obvious changes have had to be made since the Big Ten and Pac-12 will not play this fall and will not play in Games in late December or January because they are trying to play their own spring season.
This all sounds like an extreme headache for commissions, right?
The truth is, board members, conference commissioners, university presidents, and individual athletic directors have no idea what the fall season will look like this fall. The only guarantee is that postseason play will be included, including the playoffs, if we can get through a season.
We try something out of the ordinary at 247Sports and propose an unusual 2020 bowling season with wholesale changes, including but not limited to tie-in changes and a few games being moved to the spring. No one is currently in college football how bowls season will play this fall, so we’ll give it a shot:
