SEC vs. Big Xii Football Challenge?
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kcbob79clone
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New York's deaths peaked about a week or two after their cases did.
Let's give those other places a few weeks here. If the the death rate drops, that's great although hospitals are still overwhelmed.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/new-york/
Probably be estimated like others.
CDC estimates now that some 60 million people had Swine Flu, 12,000 died with variants in ranges, the deaths not even close to what we've seen in just 4 months with Covid, which should wipe out the 'well we didn't shut anything down for H1N1' narrative.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html
kcbob79clone
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They've kept things closed down and are just reopening so we'll see what happens.
Thing with that is that there's no way there still weren't people gathering in groups, visiting one another, etc. just like anywhere else with more strict rules.
Turns out, that, yes, the SEC is pursuing this.
https://www.bannersociety.com/2020/7/13/21322635/sec-football-covid-scheduling-changes-2020
https://www.bannersociety.com/2020/7/13/21322635/sec-football-covid-scheduling-changes-2020
Thanks for pulling this back to the topic at hand. Co-vid is serious, but it seems like there are OTHER threads devoted to discussing the validity of numbers & stats!! In regards to the OP's suggestion of an SEC-Big XII challenge, right now I would not be as keen on that idea - especially in light of other conferences who may not be as solid top to bottom as the Big XII (B1G, cough, cough). That said, I trust CMC and the Athletic Department in their scheduling decisions if, indeed, we do have FB in the Fall.
I remain skeptical about any collegiate fall football but rather expect to see a conference-games-only spring season. That gets us a vaccine this winter, hopefully, and some degree of normalcy.
I would love to see Texas vs Texas A & M
Bama vs OU
LSU vs ISU
OSU vs Auburn
KU vs Mizzou
KSU already has Vandy Scheduled.
Baylor vs Mississippi
Tech vs MSU
TCU vs Georgia
WV vs Tennessee or Kentucky
Update from SEC commish Sankey after yesterday's meetings. Sounds like a decision from the SEC won't happen until the end of the month:
Any plans for the upcoming college football season as it relates to the schedule won’t be made until late July.
Sankey, after a full day of meetings with the league’s athletic directors in Birmingham, plans to take as long as possible before a plan is devised...
“What we‘ve identified is an opportunity in late July for an important check-in to see what our public health reality is.”
...
“We are not at that destination and a number of our colleague conferences are not at that destination, so the Big Ten made its decision,” Sankey said of the conference-only format. “We have no common games with the Big Ten Conference this year, just one of the realities in our schedule. The impact of their decision is indirect.(")
Sankey, after a full day of meetings with the league’s athletic directors in Birmingham, plans to take as long as possible before a plan is devised...
“What we‘ve identified is an opportunity in late July for an important check-in to see what our public health reality is.”
...
“We are not at that destination and a number of our colleague conferences are not at that destination, so the Big Ten made its decision,” Sankey said of the conference-only format. “We have no common games with the Big Ten Conference this year, just one of the realities in our schedule. The impact of their decision is indirect.(")
