Because within a conference you can come up with terms to amend the contracts across the board to make sure everyone is abiding by the same guidelines (testing, etc.)
with non conference games, the contracts are done and can’t necessarily be amended easily.
I am guessing they will stick with division only games and have a couple of home/homes between some of the closer division schools. They will want to restrict travel as much as they can.
Wouldnt surprise me if they will have everyone play a home and home against their closest school, something like Nebraska/Minnesota, Iowa/Wisconsin, Illinois/NW, indiana/Purdue, Michigan/Michigan state, Ohio state/penn state, Maryland/Rutgers
The same thing they used to do...show the 1986 World's Strongest Man Championships so we can watch Franco Columbo blow his knee out while carrying a fridge on his back and Magnus ver Magnusson dominate everyone
Fields case for leaving Georgia was due to fellow student athletes making racist comments to him. He was granted a waiver and played last year.
Luke Ford transferred from Georgia to Illinois because his grandfather was ill and he wanted to be closer to him while his health was declining. His...
You mean like all of us on this messageboard that do whatever we all do for a living and are apparently qualified to run a power 5 division I football program?