CUSA should be called the "COVID Conference".
CUSA seems to be more negatively impacted by COVID than any other conference this season. Of the
47 FBS football games cancelled or postponed in 2020 due to COVID concerns, CUSA teams were involved in
19 of them. That's over
40% of the total cancellations and postponements. AAC teams have been involved in
12 or
25.5% of the cancellations/postponements in 2020, and the Sunbelt was involved in
8, or
17%.
These stats seem to support my theory that some CUSA teams are guilty of using COVID as a "scheduling strategy" in 2020, and not necessarily always cancelling games each week for
health reasons.
Oh....and these stats don't even include the 11 or 12 games that ODU cancelled right out of the gate when the Monarchs declared their entire football season over before it started. These stats also only include 3 Rice games rescheduled against Marshall, UAB and Houston. These stats also do NOT include Rice's early season cancellations against Army, LSU & Lamar off of Rice's original 2020 schedule.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...e-to-covid-19/
CUSA is still cancelling and postponing games almost every week (including several this past week). Meanwhile, there were some pretty large crowds at some of the games I watched yesterday (KSU?). And yes, at the end of the Notre Dame game, at least 20K students & fans rushed the field like old times, and were all over each other.