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NCAA: No championships for fall sports

By Caleb Calhoun

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 17: Mark Emmert, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), looks on during a brief press availability on Capitol Hill December 17, 2019 in Washington, DC. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) met with NCAA President Mark Emmert to discuss the issue of compensation for collegiate athletes. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 17: Mark Emmert, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), looks on during a brief press availability on Capitol Hill December 17, 2019 in Washington, DC. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) met with NCAA President Mark Emmert to discuss the issue of compensation for collegiate athletes. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) /
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NCAA president Mark Emmert has reacted to the Big Ten and the Pac-12 moves due to COVID-19.

Mark Emmert, president of the NCAA has, come to a decision. If Tennessee football makes the College Football Playoff in 2020, the governing organization won’t recognize a national title by them should things stand as planned right now by the SEC.

The organization announced that there would be no championships for fall sports in 2020. This move comes on the heels of the Big Ten and Pac-12 postponing fall sports. This impacts 22 championships overall.

Emmert noted the there would not be enough schools participating to actually recognized a championship in any sports given the conferences that have shut things down. He talked about the decision in a video posted to the NCAA Twitter account.

Because of this move, there are numerous questions as to what the remaining Power Five leagues will do. The SEC, Big 12 and ACC have all devised schedules to deal with the pandemic, but now you have to wonder what they’ll do. The College Football Playoff, at least, announced it is moving forward with its plans for 2020-2021.

As of now, fewer than 50 percent of Division I programs are planning fall sports after the decision by the Big East to drop them. This was why Emmert made the decision he made, and it’s likely to have more of an impact.

To be fair, it opens up lots of possibilities for the leagues planning to play. After all, the three conferences and maybe even the American Athletic Conference could come together and create their own four-team playoff at the end of the year.

Simply put, as we have been saying throughout the pandemic, we’re going to have to wait and see how this all plays out. The ball is in the court of the conferences still deciding to play at this point given what Emmert just announced.

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Despite what we said in the opening paragraph, it’s safe to say Vol fans aren’t impacted by this. They weren’t going to compete for the College Football Playoff anyway this year. As a result, the only way the NCAA decision will have an impact is if it trickles down to what the conferences themselves decide to do.

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