(Stats Perform) - The recent start of preseason practices across FCS campuses helps to keep hope alive for a season this fall, but the players and coaches involved appear to be like everybody else, wondering if their preparation will come to an end soon.

Seven of the 13 FCS conferences and about 75 of the 127 schools, including those playing as independents, have not canceled on a fall season due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will begin practices on Friday if they haven't done so already.

The teams are practicing for the start of the regular season. The NCAA Board of Governors on Wednesday gave the 40-member NCAA Division I Council until Aug. 21 to determine whether a regular season will lead to the annual playoffs, and that answer should be known sooner rather than later because the conferences are feverishly deciding their respective situation.