The football oversight committee, is chaired by West Virginia athletic director,  Shane Lyons, presented the following recommendations to the Div 1 Council which will vote in 12 days. 

8 game Spring season that must end by 4/17,extended the dead period until Halloween, (no surprise the ACC/SEC got what they wanted), not enough support for mid year enrollees/transfers to be eligible for the Spring.  

The Football Oversight Committee on Thursday agreed to recommend to the Division I Council a spring-season model for conferences that push their seasons to spring of 2021. It includes 15 practices in 29 days and an eight-game season that must end by April 17.

Any other conferences that have postponed their season because of the coronavirus pandemic but decide to resume playing games earlier than next spring will not be able to use the 15-practice model, but it will be recommended all leagues that have postponed will have 13 weeks to complete their seasons.

The committee will also ask the Council to extend the recruiting dead period to Oct. 31 and to eliminate the evaluation period for football in the fall.

"There was not support to allow midyear enrollees, transfers or incoming freshmen to compete in the spring semester," Lyons said.

The committee wanted to eliminate the recruiting evaluation period in the fall because three-fourths of it has already been missed, Lyons said, and the coaches won't be able to make that time up in one month.

Not sure if these rules are good or bad for us playing earlier, any insight?  If we wait we are limited to just 8 games and lose practices. If we start in November, we can play more games, but why? 

If the Big Ten or any other league resumes play in late November, it wouldn't be allowed to use the proposed practice format of 29 days to have 15 practices, as is the case during a typical spring season. Only teams that push the season to spring of 2021 would be able to make use of that model