No 2020 season - so how does the schedule work for 2021?

[CoachJeff]

For SEC games does the conference use the 2020 schedule or the 2021 schedule? If they just move to 2021 that means Bama plays at JHS twice in a row, but LSU plays in Ttown twice in a row too.

Anyone have any idea? I haven’t seen anyone address this.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

For SEC games does the conference use the 2020 schedule or the 2021 schedule? If they just move to 2021 that means Bama plays at JHS twice in a row, but LSU plays in Ttown twice in a row too.

Anyone have any idea? I haven’t seen anyone address this.

I think the easiest thing is to just go with what's already on the books. Otherwise, you have to flip games into perpetuity.

 

[81usaf92]

I would say move on as usual. Plus it prevents our campus from being trashed by UGA fans.

I hope we just nix this schedule if we don’t play because I’m looking forward to going to Alabama @ Florida next year since I’m living in South Alabama for the next few years.

 

[Crimson1967]

Probably would be best to just play 2021 as scheduled. Some schools may have arranged future OOC games based on what the conference schedule was for that year.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

For SEC games does the conference use the 2020 schedule or the 2021 schedule? If they just move to 2021 that means Bama plays at JHS twice in a row, but LSU plays in Ttown twice in a row too.

Anyone have any idea? I haven’t seen anyone address this.

Hotel Reservations and other arrangements were made far in advance...

 

[BamaNation]

I think we do what we should all do once we get to Fall 2021: Forget that 2020 existed at all. The year to not remember (other than whatever smart things are learned from what to do/not do in a pandemic.) ... Is it 2021 yet?

 

[cubzwin]

If there is a vaccine approved by January 2021 and widely available by March plus widespread availability of effective drugs, why not football in Spring 2021? Lot of money at stake.

 

[DogPatch]

If there is a vaccine approved by January 2021 and widely available by March plus widespread availability of effective drugs, why not football in Spring 2021? Lot of money at stake.

I say give the spring sports that were cancelled/cut short their full season, and let football come back in the fall.

Also, a March vaccine would make the season start around mid-April at the earliest, run through the end of July (at best). That would give NO down time for players to play in the fall, which would start mid-September at the latest. I don't see that working.

 

[81usaf92]

Probably would be best to just play 2021 as scheduled. Some schools may have arranged future OOC games based on what the conference schedule was for that year.

Honestly I would prefer to play Florida than Georgia, and Miami than USC in a season. But the only thing I would change is the next time UGA is on the schedule in 7 years that we play them in BDS.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Guessing they write off the 2020 season, and resume with 2021 as currently scheduled.

I originally thought they’d just push out the 2020 schedule to 2021, the 2021 schedule to 2022, etc. And if it were just conference games, you could do that.

But then I was reminded by an earlier poster of the non-conference games scattered throughout the year. It was pulling eye teeth to reschedule a single game FL - LSU a couple of years ago. No way to juggle all those variables amongst 14 schools.

So we get the benefit of having LSU at home two games in a row, but have Auburn on the road two games in a row. Swap UGA in Tuscaloosa for UF in Gainesville. Everybody will have similar tradeoffs.

Not a perfect solution. But if anyone out there has a better one, that is also realistically achievable, I’m all ears.

Note: Serious question....does anybody know how they handled this in 1943?

 

[81usaf92]

Guessing they write off the 2020 season, and resume with 2021 as currently scheduled.

I originally thought they’d just push out the 2020 schedule to 2021, the 2021 schedule to 2022, etc. And if it were just conference games, you could do that.

But then I was reminded by an earlier poster of the non-conference games scattered throughout the year. It was pulling eye teeth to reschedule a single game FL - LSU a couple of years ago. No way to juggle all those variables amongst 14 schools.

So we get the benefit of having LSU at home two games in a row, but have Auburn on the road two games in a row. Swap UGA in Tuscaloosa for UF in Gainesville. Everybody will have similar tradeoffs.

Not a perfect solution. But if anyone out there has a better one, that is also realistically achievable, I’m all ears.

Note: Serious question....does anybody know how they handled this in 1943?

I don’t think college football was a serious money maker in 1943 so I don’t think it really matter plus there probably wasn’t as many binding contracts.

The reason the UF-LSU game was such a mess in 2016 mostly stemmed around the fact that LSU went to Lambeau for their non conference P5 game and Florida was effectively taking another home game from them if they were forced to go to Gainesville. Personally I think both ADs were being donkeys and they should’ve moved the game to Mobile that week and been done with it.

I don’t think we are looking at that kinda situation for 2021. I believe everyone will probably be okay with just moving on because no one is really losing anything schedule wise. Sure Tennessee and LSU probably don’t like the fact that they have to Come back to BDS but I doubt Alabama really likes two straight trips to JHS.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

If there is a vaccine approved by January 2021 and widely available by March plus widespread availability of effective drugs, why not football in Spring 2021? Lot of money at stake.

Manufacturing and distributing that stuff will take time...and everyone will want theirs first.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Guessing they write off the 2020 season, and resume with 2021 as currently scheduled.

I originally thought they’d just push out the 2020 schedule to 2021, the 2021 schedule to 2022, etc. And if it were just conference games, you could do that.

But then I was reminded by an earlier poster of the non-conference games scattered throughout the year. It was pulling eye teeth to reschedule a single game FL - LSU a couple of years ago. No way to juggle all those variables amongst 14 schools.

So we get the benefit of having LSU at home two games in a row, but have Auburn on the road two games in a row. Swap UGA in Tuscaloosa for UF in Gainesville. Everybody will have similar tradeoffs.

Not a perfect solution. But if anyone out there has a better one, that is also realistically achievable, I’m all ears.

Note: Serious question....does anybody know how they handled this in 1943?

Wan't that a couple of years after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

 

[Vinny]

I would say move on as usual. Plus it prevents our campus from being trashed by UGA fans.

I hope we just nix this schedule if we don’t play because I’m looking forward to going to Alabama @ Florida next year since I’m living in South Alabama for the next few years.

Yup. We have them to thank for all of the on campus building being locked. I headed their fans trashed bathrooms, broke toilets, and flooded bathrooms in various building on campus.

 

[DogPatch]

Wan't that a couple of years after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Forget it, he's rolling.

 

[We_are_Bama]

As the barners jump up and down at the prospect of getting to host the IB two times in a row (Nix will be a junior with the experience of a freshman, LOL) they forget that they take a HUGE gut shot as well. They have to go to Baton Rouge, a place where they haven't won since 1999, two times in a row.

By the by, if things don't start getting better, like right flippin now....there won't be a 2021 season either

 

[MOAN]

I assume you are assuming there will be a vaccine by fall of 2021 and everyone is vaccinated.

If that be the case I think it would be a good time for all the power 5 football schools to leave the NCAA and start a whole new organization with super conferences and a 6 or 8 team playoff. Since we are what ifin' and all!

Otherwise what most everyone else has said...move on to 2021.

 

[Con]

Guessing they write off the 2020 season, and resume with 2021 as currently scheduled.

I originally thought they’d just push out the 2020 schedule to 2021, the 2021 schedule to 2022, etc. And if it were just conference games, you could do that.

But then I was reminded by an earlier poster of the non-conference games scattered throughout the year. It was pulling eye teeth to reschedule a single game FL - LSU a couple of years ago. No way to juggle all those variables amongst 14 schools.

So we get the benefit of having LSU at home two games in a row, but have Auburn on the road two games in a row. Swap UGA in Tuscaloosa for UF in Gainesville. Everybody will have similar tradeoffs.

Not a perfect solution. But if anyone out there has a better one, that is also realistically achievable, I’m all ears.

Note: Serious question....does anybody know how they handled this in 1943?

Selma wasn't alive in 1943 so I guess we will just have to look that one up.