The college football season has been everything but normal in 2020, and according to Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby, there have now been talks about potentially delaying the College Football Playoff and New Year's Six Bowls due to COVID-19.
"I am on the CFP operations committee, and we spent some time talking about that," Bowlsby said in an interview with Sirius XM. "We have not come to any closure on it, but there is some latitude to postpone it if that need should arise."
There have been a plethora of cancelled and postponed college football games this season due to COVID scares and outbreaks, and the Big 10 and SEC just started playing a few weeks ago after originally canceling the fall season.
With another spike in COVID-19 taking place, all of this uncertainty might lead to pushing back the postseason later than its usual January and February dates.
"The same is true with some of the New Year's Six games," Bowlsby added. "I don't know if I see us playing a championship game in February, but you just never know. These are unusual times, and things that might not otherwise be acceptable have to be considered in this kind of circumstance."
The SEC postponed four games this weekend and commissioner Greg Sankey acknowledged there might need to be flexibility and change.
"The semifinals are on [January] first," Sankey said. "The championship is on the 11th. The reality is if you walk in the back of my building, there's a sign that says be flexible.
"I'm not going to hypothesize about change, but I'm not inattentive to the potential that change may need to occur at a number of different levels."
CFP executive director Bill Hancock told ESPN that the commissioners plan on waiting as long as possible to make a decision but they're aware this season isn't perfect.
"Nothing is imminent," Hancock said. "They're talking about a lot of things, which is night and day different than they're going to do it."
The CFP selection committee is scheduled to release its first rankings on Nov. 24 and its final ranking on Dec. 20.