INDIANAPOLIS-Per news released Monday, the NCAA is preparing for a six-week training camp leading up to the 2020 college football season.

A Sports Illustrated report confirms college athletics leaders are set to take a giant leap with the NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee is expected to approve a plan including a six-week preseason period.

Once this plan is approved by the committee, it will go to the Division I council for a vote. The council is expected to meet June 17.

Under this six-week plan, normal summer workouts, including coach interaction, would commence July 6.

In required workouts, student-athletes can spend up to six hours weekly with the strength staff on weight training and conditioning and spend two hours with coaches for film study.

These workouts would lead into an enhanced summer training which is a two-week stretch comprising the first portion of the proposed six-week preseason plan.

During the enhanced summer practices/workouts, athletes would be allowed 20 hours of activities weekly.

These would consist of eight hours of strength training and film review.

It would also add an hour walk-through practice daily as well as an additional hour of team meetings.

The starting date for each of the activity segments along with required workouts, enhanced training and preseason camp will be determined by the team’s first game.

Teams that start the season Labor Day weekend could begin required workouts by July 13. Enhanced training would then occur July 24 and preseason camp would commence on August 7.

Per Todd Berry, the executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, officials have begun to study specifics concerning camp and in-season practices.

Berry believes that coaches could be wearing masks during games and the team sideline area, which is between the 30-yard-lines, would be expanded to promote social distancing.