The Big 12 Conference is moving forward with plans to play the 2020 college football season this fall. After the Big Ten and Pac-12 made the decision to postpone football amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Big 12 stood its ground, joining the ACC and SEC as the Power Five conferences that intend to play football this fall. As a special treat for The Flagship Podcast listeners, Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby joins the show for an exclusive, one-on-one interview about the upcoming football season as league officials continue to monitor the ongoing fluid landscape of COVID-19. Bowlsby weighs in on all of the details that went into the conference's decision to move forward with the fall football season, including in-depth intel on the testing protocols schools will be required to administer this year. The Commissioner discussed the importance the Big 12 placed on not only ensuring the safety of its college football players during these unprecedented times, but also how the league made it a point of emphasis to include the student-athletes in the decision making process, ensuring their voices are heard and all questions are addressed. The topics discussed on this special episode of The Flagship Podcast include the most important factors that went into the Big 12 board of director's decision for a fall football season, the hurdles the league will face in the event medical professionals provide different facts that would be a cause for concern for the safety of student-athletes, how dependent the Big 12 is on the ACC and SEC continuing to go forward with a fall schedule, the testing plan the Big 12 will require of its member institutions, the importance the conference put on not taking the decision to play or not out of the hands of student-athletes, the unity of the Big 12 board of directors throughout this process, the difficulty conference commissioners are facing in leading throughout this pandemic, why the most self-disciplined teams and players will be the ones to likely come out on top, the decision to include student-athletes in discussions with league officials and what officials have learned from the 25 Big 12 football players who were included in the talks and what would happen to other fall sports if the football season schedule changes. Catch all of that and much more from the Big 12 Commissioner in The Flagship Podcast's exclusive interview with Bob Bowlsby. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices