SEC, ACC schedule models revealed for 2020 (07/30)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Breaking news from the SEC plus Notre Dame joins the ACC for a year. First, instant reaction to news that the SEC will go conference only (1:00) and then a full discussion of Notre Dame's addition to the ACC for the 2020 season (14:00). Plus, Caleb Farley and the potential of players deciding to opt out for the season (50:40) and what we know so far about the Big Ten's conference-only model (1:04:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host Danny Canal, Chip Anderson, |
| 0:09.3 | Barton Simmons, and Tom Fonelli. It's your call for the best college football coverage |
| 0:15.4 | from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.9 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:25.2 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. Fascinating Tom and college football |
| 0:30.9 | news breaking by the minute that's Danny Canal. I'm Chip Patterson. You're going to hear me open |
| 0:37.1 | the show once again in just a little bit. We Danny, we had just gotten off the call and news |
| 0:43.5 | breaks from Ross Dalinger. SEC presidents have adopted a plan to play a 10 game conference only |
| 0:50.5 | scheduled this fall, Sources told Sports Illustrated. The league approved kickoff date is September |
| 0:56.7 | 26th is one of the later dates that we've heard from the reports about the Big 10 and the ACC. |
| 1:03.4 | So far Big 10 reportedly, I except to ever fifth the ACC going one week later, |
| 1:10.4 | particulars on the schedule, including the two additional games and locations unclear for now. SEC |
| 1:15.4 | Championship game two weeks later for December 19th. Danny, the this is it. You asked later, you |
| 1:25.4 | said, has the ACC pushed around the SEC? I think the SEC just stepped out of the way and I guess the |
| 1:33.6 | ACC fell on its face here. Yeah, I think so. I think that answer is a clear no. The ACC is never |
| 1:40.1 | going to be able to push around the SEC. I do think they wanted to force their hand. But look, |
| 1:44.7 | the SEC is going to do what they want to do ultimately. I wonder what kind of conversations |
| 1:49.6 | took place if they even considered, hey, what do we do with these rivalry games? I think there's |
| 1:55.6 | an interesting dynamic to this too that I think has to be taken into consideration. And this is |
| 2:01.7 | like a nuance thing to what this crazy pandemic that we're dealing with. And I don't think it has |
| 2:07.4 | anything to do with football related power and rivalries or anything. Just some of the |
| 2:13.2 | logistical standpoint of what if we're the SEC and are testing protocols are different than the |
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