The NCAA’s Football Oversight Committee has set its recommendations for conferences set to play a spring football season.

Heather Dinich of ESPN reports that the spring season model recommended to the Division I council will give conferences that push their seasons to spring of 2021 15 practices in 29 days, and an eight-game season that must end by April 17.

There are conditions to those recommendations. The FOC recommendations are designed to include some flexibility.

While the eight-game schedule is recommended, “any leagues pushing their season back to the spring, it would be an eight-game schedule. Any conferences that start earlier can play more games within their allotted 13 weeks,” Dinich writes.

If the Big Ten were to resume play in the fall rather than spring, “it wouldn’t be allowed to use the proposed practice format of 29 days to have 15 practices as is the case during a typical spring season,” per Dinich.

FOC chair and West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons told ESPN that the April 17 date was set in hope of having a normal 2021 fall season.

“The April 17 date is key because we’re trying to get it to where there’s enough time between the last competition and starting back up in August and having a normal, ’21-22 football season,” he said. “There’s expectation that the coaches, the conferences and the medical experts work through what the spring and competition would look like from a health and safety standpoint.”

The ESPN report notes that Lyons said there was “no support” for allowing class of 2021 early enrollees to play in the spring season.

Big Ten, Pac-12, Mountain West and Mid-American are the four FBS conferences to have postponed their seasons. The DI council is expected to vote on the FOC’s recommendations on Sept. 16.

In addition to the spring recommendations, the FOC will also reportedly “ask the Council to extend the recruiting dead period to Oct. 31, and to eliminate the evaluation period for football in the fall.”