College football updates: Focus shifts to SEC, ACC and Big 12 after Big Ten, Pac-12 moves

The college football season remains in a state of flux, with the NCAA’s member institutions and conferences not exactly presenting a united front with regard to how to proceed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

As matters stand now, two major conferences, the Big Ten and the Pac-12, will not play this fall. Two others, the SEC and the ACC, are hoping to move ahead with the plans they announced last week to delay competition until late September and move ahead with games. The Big 12 followed Wednesday by confirming its plans.

The rest of the Bowl Subdivision is equally fractured. The Mid-American Conference was the first to announce it would postpone fall competition in the hopes of staging games in the spring. The Mountain West Conference followed suit shortly thereafter. Conference USA had announced last week it would attempt to play, but then one of its members, Old Dominion, decided to suspend fall sports. As of this writing, the American and the Sun Belt intend to play.