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That’s why Schemm is monitoring the moves of college football closely

The best college football games in 2020; SN's pick for College Football Streams of the Year College football 2020: No football season could be catastrophic for more than the bottom lineThere is a simple compelling reason to hold out hope for college football to start on time in 2020: the big games. "Talkin' season" — the annual rite of passage every summer — tends to focus on those circle-the-date-games on the calendar. Those are the games that shape the nonconference schedule, the conference races and in, November, the College Football Playoff.

For a sport that values the regular season that much, the games are what define the season. Sporting News looks at the best games in 2020 by category: This is most likely the first top-10 showdown of the season. Ohio State is 16-1 under Ryan Day, a former Oregon assistant who will take one of the nation's most talented teams cross-country to face a resurgent Oregon program coming off a Rose Bowl victory.

This is a chance for Mario Cristobal to flash what could be one of the best defenses in the FBS led by Preseason All-American Kayvon Thibodeaux. This should be a hot ticket in Death Valley, and new quarterback Myles Brennan will be in his first big start. Last year's national championship team found its footing in a 45-38 shootout at Texas last season. The Longhorns have four September losses in three seasons with Tom Herman, but Sam Ehlinger is back for his senior season. The Bulldogs return to Bryant-Denny Stadium for the first time since 2007, and that is the school's last victory against the Crimson Tide.

Georgia also hired longtime Alabama strength coach Scott Cochran this offseason. Alabama has won the past five meetings, and that includes a CFP championship and SEC championship game. The winner here will have a leg up on the SEC and College Football Playoff race. Sports fans don’t want to consider life without a 2020 season. But as the calendar flips to August, there remain unknowns of when the season will begin let alone what could transpire if no competition takes place. If COVID-19 halts the sport completely, it would be catastrophic for athletic budgets. Norman and Stillwater would lose millions of dollars that a Saturday game brings their respective communities. While the players themselves would lose a year of physical activity, there also could be a mental toll which could take place.

Could one weekend of games be impacted? What about an entire season? “It’s very possible that any of those kinds of (things) could happen that causes some change in the event, including having to shut down an event because of positive cases,” OU director of athletics Joe Castiglione said. “We certainly don’t hope it, we’re trying to do everything to avoid it, but yet we aren’t in full control of where the virus might be.”
The Sooners are four weeks away from a scheduled season opener against visiting Missouri State. But by Monday, that game could be altered when the Big 12 decides on its next move. How much money could a Power Five school lose if there’s no football season? Patrick Rishe, director of the sports business program at Washington University in St. Louis, told ESPN he estimates that those 65 schools could lose a collective $4 billion, with at least $1.2 billion due to lost ticket revenue. He added that there would be an average loss of $62 million in football revenue, including at least $18.6 million in football ticket sales.

OU has been studying different scenarios of how this football season could play out. There have already been budget reductions that were announced at the beginning of the fiscal year, including a 10% pay cut by athletic department staff members making at least $1 million. But what happens if Memorial Stadium is empty all season?
“It’s inextricably linked to so many other areas. Some of which haven’t reached certain people’s consciousness,” Castiglione said. “They’ll have a couple of things, if that were to happen, they’ll have moments of thinking, ‘I didn’t realize that. I didn’t understand that how much it’s connected to this or that or something else.’”The Oklahoma AD praised his staff for their tireless work to develop protocols to bring student-athletes back to campus with, again, no idea what the finish line will be.
“This gets into the speculation and I really have tried to not go there, but we are trying to talk about those things and prepared if something like that were to happen,” Castiglione said. “We’re working with our campus, being in lockstep with them.

They’re welcoming students back and having an approach between in-person classes and online classes and what that means. Sports is a big part of what we do, but it’s not the only thing we do. And so, we try to understand what all that means.” It’s not just the physical side of the situation, but how student-athletes deal mentally with the current situation.“Mental health and the attention toward mental health is as big, if not a bigger part of this, because that’s part of their life that they’ve worked so long to achieve,” Castiglione said. “The dream that they’re chasing, and we want to be there to help them and support chasing that dream. If that gets interrupted again, trying to help them through that. Those are the kinds of things that we think of about their best interest and helping them manage what they face, because we’re all facing it for the first time, too.”

Tulsa football coach Philip Montgomery, by nature, is a coach that embraces structure. The cancellation of spring football and unknowns are challenging. It can be a battle with mental toughness. His players switched from classroom work to online work last spring. His coaches haven’t seen their players face-to-face much as the world turned upside down. Those guys are used to being on a schedule,” Montgomery said. “They’re used to saying ‘when this happens’ and ‘everything happens this way.’ (There will) be an adjustment. I think our guys will handle it well.”

Montgomery didn’t want to speculate on having no 2020 football season and called himself a ‘glass-half-full’ guy. “I’m going to think positive all the way through it and try to build on those,” he said. “I don’t have an answer (if a season doesn’t occur) and, to be real honest, hopefully we never have to find that out.”
Some business leaders in Norman hope the same thing. A Saturday home game at OU draws an economic impact of $5 million, according to VisitNorman executive director Dan Schemm. Local taxes generated around $286,000.
That’s why Schemm is monitoring the moves of college football closely. This past week’s news that the Tennessee game had been canceled was disappointing because the Southeastern Conference school has a strong base that would have invaded town with rabid fans who spend money.
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