Division III fall championships are canceled and will not be rescheduled to the spring, the NCAA announced on Tuesday. The D-III Presidents Council voted on the decision on Wednesday. 

"Our championship committee reviewed the financial and logistical ramifications if Division III fall sports championships were conducted in the spring and found it was logistically untenable and financially prohibitive," said Tori Murden McClure, president at Spalding and chair of the Presidents Council. "Moving forward, we will try to maximize the championships experience for our winter and spring sports student-athletes, who unfortunately were short-changed last academic year." 

The NCAA Board of Governors announced that it would not be making a sweeping decision for all classifications of football. Instead, it was leaving those decisions to the individual divisions. Texas Football confirmed that the D-II and D-III presidents councils were meeting today. 

In practice, this means that while Division III conferences – including the powerhouse American Southwest Conference – can play football in the spring, there will be no national championship to earn. For consistent national championship contenders like Mary Hardin-Baylor and Hardin-Simmons, that's a deep cut. 

Other governing bodies in college football are still making decisions about how to approach a season. The FCS Southland Conference and D-II Lone Star Conference are the only major conferences in Texas still scheduled to play football in the fall.

The United States COVID-19 transmission rates still rank among the highest in the world. Over the past seven days, the U.S. ranks No. 8 globally in new cases per 100,000 people. No other major Western nation ranks in the top 30.