SI's Robin Lundberg discusses with Sports Illustrated writer Ross Dellenger about plans for college football to return. This week, the NCAA should take a big step forward in approving a plan that would kind of start. It's kind of like a six to eight- week pre-season plan that would kind of start around mid-July for some schools, even maybe even early July will allow coaches to start working with players.

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Robin Lundberg: We're starting to see more of a plan for a professional sports return but what about college? Obviously, circumstances different there for a number of reasons. For more on college football, I'm joined now by Ross Dellenger. Now, Ross, I understand that that practices may resume as soon as early July with coaches involved in all.

Ross Dellenger: Yeah. You know, right now for all of June and probably the first couple weeks of July just having voluntary workouts. So, strength staff can supervise, coaches like assistant coaches, receivers coaches, coordinators. They can't do anything they can't even really watch workouts, they're not supposed to. But come mid to late July, a pre-season plan is coming together. That includes even walk throughs with a football bye by even mid-July. So this week, the NCAA should take a big step forward in approving a plan that would kind of start. It's kind of like a six to eight- week pre-season plan that would kind of start around mid-July for some schools, even maybe even early July will allow coaches to start working with players.

Robin Lundberg: What about the season itself? How many games do we expect to see played? Will it be different for each team? Will it be different for the conferences? How is that all going to shake out?

Ross Dellenger: It could you know, we could have teams that play a different amount of games. You know, they might miss a game or two because of a virus outbreak. In fact, I think a lot of officials around college football expect that. They certainly expect pre-season practice in a camp in August to have some interruptions and some delays because of the viral outbreak. You know, right now the plan is to start the season on time, but certainly not everybody might do that just because of a potential virus outbreaks.

Robin Lundberg: So is the plan as outlined universal for all of division one, or will there be no specific differences, depending on the geographic location, the makeup of the school and what not?

Ross Dellenger: Well, the preseason plan is universal across all NCAA schools, but everybody might not start at the same time. So you're allowed to start potentially second week of July in this preseason plan. But there are some schools, because of their state regulations and how the virus impacted their area, that they might not start in the second or third week in July. They might it might be a little later than that. And of course, again, you could have an interruption. You could start up in mid-July and have an interruption in late July or early August. And a big, big part of this plan is you have to practice for weeks in order to start your first game. And that's that's a big part of this, because some schools you never know because of virus, things that happen outbreaks, they might not get that practice in. Well, they if they if they don't, they they can't start the season on time.

Robin Lundberg: And that would lead to some interesting ramifications. Of course, safety first, obviously. But we'll see what happens with the college football season, Ross. appreciate your time, as always.

Ross Dellenger: Sure.