A&Mhas Alabama, LSU to end 2020
It’s still a bit over two weeks until the start of this college football season, but it’s never too early to look at next season.
The SEC released its schedule for 2020 onWednesday, and for Texas A&Mit’s going to be quite a finish.
The Aggies will be at Alabama on Nov. 21 and then host LSU on Nov. 28 to finish the 2020 season. In A&M’s first years in the SEC, the Aggies usually faced Alabama earlier in the season.
Also on the SEC schedule for 2020, LSU will host its return game with Texas on Sept. 12 and then come to Houston to play Rice on Sept. 19. LSU opens with another Texas school when it hosts UT San Antonio on Sept. 5.
Mississippi and Baylor made it official to start the 2020 season at NRG Stadium on Sept. 5 in the Advocare Texas Kickoff game.
Clemson details minor violations
Clemson’s national championship football program was flagged for eight secondary NCAA violations during a period from July 2018 through this past June.
The school’s athletic department released a summary of the infractions Wednesday.
None of the violations were considered major and all issues about the penalties have been resolved, according to the school. In all, Clemson selfreported 14 violations in the year ending on June 30.
Names of athletes, coaches or staffers involved in the infractions were not in the summary provided to The Associated Press by Clemson. The month and day when the violation occurred was blacked out in the report.
The football violations reported by the school included a homeowner paying a player above the going rate for work around the home on three separate occasions. Two violations involved players on social media in a promotional capacity.
The other five infractions were committed by football staffers and included reimbursing an athlete for ground transportation expenses above the school’s mileage rate.
Odds and ends
Standardized injury reports will not be implemented across college football this season after the NCAA explored the possibility in response to the rise of legalized sports betting. The NCAA’s Board of Governors announced Wednesday that it still supports the association’s rules prohibiting athletes and school administrators from wagering on sports or providing information to people associated with gambling. But the board concluded an injury or availability report across college football is not viable. An ad hoc committee on sports wagering studied the possibility of teams publicly disclosing whether players would be available for games. …
Tennessee’s Emmit Gooden will miss the entire season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, leaving the Volunteers without their most experienced player on a defensive line that has no returning starters. Coach Jeremy Pruitt says Gooden injured his knee Tuesday and will undergo surgery next week.