Imagine, as John Lennon once sang, a world without college football.

Seems unfathomable, borderline blasphemous and possibly un-American.

But here we are, with a crazy storm of rumors coming out regarding a reversal from the Big 10 and other Power Five programs, with reports that they are now going to scrap their seasons entirely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The latest nugget of information comes from the Detroit Free Press, which published this story about ten minutes ago:

The Big Ten has voted to cancel the 2020 college football season in a historic move that stems from concerns related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, multiple people with knowledge of the decision confirmed to the Free Press.

The sources requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the decision. A formal announcement is expected to Tuesday, the sources said.

The presidents voted, 12-2, Sunday to end the fall sports in the conference. Only Nebraska and Iowa voted to play, Dan Patrick said on his radio show Monday.

Wow! That’s amazing. They JUST released the football schedule and it seemed like we were good to go for the upcoming season.

Here’s the Dan Patrick radio segment referenced in the story;

Unbelievable. The SEC may be our only hope here. Football is bigger than God in the south, so you know they’re going to try to play, come hell or high water. They’d try to play college ball down there even if a tornado collided with a hurricane, which ran into the path of a haboob and ripped the entire upper deck off Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Roll Tide!

That’s what they’d say while forging ahead with the pigskin, like Steve Slaton running past Greg Blue in the 2006 Sugar Bowl. There is no way on Earth the SEC is going to follow the other conferences in this decision.

Nothing official yet, but holy cow. What a turn of events.