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MAC Becomes First FBS Conference To Nix Fall Season

The Mid-American Conference is the first FBS conference to "cancel its fall season because of the coronavirus pandemic." MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said, "I’m heartbroken we are in this place." With the MAC’s 12 schools facing a "significant financial burden by trying to maintain costly coronavirus protocols, and the uncertainty that campuses can be opened safely, the conference’s university presidents canceled all fall sports -- including soccer and volleyball -- and said they would explore making them up in the spring season" (AP, 8/8). MAC fall sports teams will "still be allowed to practice in adherence with NCAA, state and local guidelines" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 8/9).

Steinbrecher was "understandably vague" about the prospect of playing football in the spring. The MAC already has lost its "money games," as the conference was set to bring in $11.5M from 11 games scheduled against the Big Ten (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 8/9). The MAC presidents "voted unanimously to cancel fall sports." Now, it is the MAC whose cancellations will "send shock waves" through the Power Five (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 8/9).

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