Staples: For SEC football in 2020, it just means later

The plan all along for the SEC was to follow the NFL and not any other college conference as it adjusted its season in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thursday, SEC presidents ensured the league would do just that by voting to play a 10-game, conference-only football season that starts on Sept. 26 and ends with an 11th game — the SEC Championship — on Dec. 19.