Now that the Big Ten has decided to start its fall football season — albeit more than a month later than the rest of FBS — two big questions loom: What does that mean in terms of the College Football Playoff? And can the players who opted out of the season opt back in?
Let’s start with the first matter of the Playoff. The early answers according to several folks connected to the process is, well, we’re not quite sure at this point.
“Nobody knows now,” Playoff executive director Bill Hancock told The Athletic on Sunday. “So much with this dang virus is we have to be patient and allow things to play out. It’s so symbolic of 2020. We can’t speculate. Things might change. We’re just waiting.”
One Playoff selection committee member told The Athletic that he hadn’t thought about how a delayed start might affect, if at all, the teams they consider, but added “our job is to rank the best…
