Beyond COVID Forfeiture: SEC Mulling Financial Penalty

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By the time the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC made official their strategic alliance Tuesday, all three conferences had independently announced their policy on COVID-related football game cancelations this season, with each saddling offending teams with forfeits — beginning with the Pac-12's announcement Aug. 12 and ending with the Big Ten following suit Monday.

Meanwhile, the Southeastern Conference — which precipitated the aforementioned alliance with its plans to expand to 16 teams and further strengthen its reputation, with the additions of Texas and Oklahoma, as the nation's premier college football conference — is considering measures beyond mere forfeiture to curb COVID-related game cancelations.

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