1. What It All Means: Week 7
Through all of the discussions and concerns before the season over the coronavirus and what was going to happen once college campuses opened up, there was one scenario that didn’t seem to get a whole lot of thought.
What if colleges really couldn’t make it all work and college football just kept going?
There have been problems with some programs here and there, but this was the first week when it was hammered home hard that college football is going to play through a global pandemic and not slow anything down.
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Nick Saban tested positive. And then he didn’t. And then he didn’t again, And then he didn’t again. And then it became a breaking news flash every 15 seconds when it was announced that he was returning to the sidelines for the Georgia game.
Baylor was hammered by positive cases, causing the Oklahoma State game to be delayed. Baylor is practicing again.
Les Miles tested positive and wasn’t able to travel with the team, and Kansas went on to get roasted by West Virginia.
LSU vs. Tulsa wasn’t able to go, so TV adjusted and Texas A&M vs. Mississippi State got a bigger spotlight.
Cincinnati and Tulsa didn’t happen, and the AAC showdown between Memphis and UCF became more important.
In all, six games weren’t able to be played on Saturday because of outbreaks, and the college football season just steamrolled on.
The Big Ten was the big, splashy holdout this offseason, and now it’s about to start its season on Friday. And Purdue head coach Jeff Brohm tested positive this weekend.
The Mountain West is also about to get going this week, and the Pac-12 and MAC will soon follow.
There will be less wiggle room going forward with the scheduling, no margin for error, and there will be a whole lot more cancellations and outbreaks over the second half of the season.
And as this week proved, college football will still be played.
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