"The best way to look at the Pac-12 and Big Ten’s decisions aren’t through their “health and safety” talking points. They’re best viewed as inevitable chronological steps that will unfold.
- Status quo (The SEC, Big 12 and ACC are here.)

- Conference play with the ability to delay (The Big Ten and Pac-12, which will soon have company.)

- The Spring (This is gaining conversation, but detractors remain.)

- Cancel (More people are talking about this than fans want to know.)
Those are the basic tenets of what could happen, as the desperation for some type of television inventory will allow creativity."

Also interesting on the financial piece:

"In athletic departments, conversations have heated up about ways to figure out how to overcome the tens of millions in monetary losses that would accompany no football season. One Power Five AD estimated $60 million in lost revenue would be a safe number for a Top 20 athletic department. Another college official estimated that at least 80 percent of revenue wouldn’t arrive.

One industry source summed it up this way: “As presidents and ADs are coming to grips with the reality that football may not be played this fall, they are thinking harder on how to fill the economic gap without decimating their athletic departments. Depending on university and state rules, for some, it can be done through loans, either directly to the school or through the conference. There’s more discussion on the financial piece as the playing piece looks dimmer.”

A financial reckoning is coming for athletic departments. As one prominent athletic director has chuckled at the seemingly arbitrary budget cuts and salary cuts that schools have announced. “The thing that’s so bizarre to me is schools cutting the budget by 7 percent and 5 percent,” the athletic director said. “What world are you living in? Forget whether you lose all of your football revenue. Even if you go down to eight games, you’re not getting away with a 7 percent budget cut.”