The commissioners from all the Division I-A conferences, including the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and Southeastern, discussed their options for staging this weekend's games during a conference call hours after the attacks.
"We're going to monitor and carefully evaluate everything and definitely make a decision (today) on our weekend football games," Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese said, speaking only for his own league's games.
He added: "The commissioners will be talking to their institutions on conference calls, and then we will talk again and make a collective decision."
Two games are scheduled for Thursday night -- Penn State at Virginia and Ohio at N.C. State, both at ACC schools.
Make-up dates were not immediately announced.
In Division I, there are 116 games scheduled Thursday through Saturday.
The final decision on whether to play could rest with the federal government, not the commissioners. The government most likely will determine whether teams should travel by air and crowds ranging from about 35,000 to more than 100,000 should gather at stadiums nationwide.
"It may be out of our hands," Tranghese said. "There are a lot of issues, emotional ones. Kids flying, playing in large venues with a lot of people, and if the government says do something, we do it."
NCAA president Cedric Dempsey said the NCAA would cooperate with any executive orders issued by President Bush.
