4. The Really Big Thing Was …
They played college football, and the season is off and running.
It wasn’t anything like the Week 1 we were supposed to have.
We were supposed to get Purdue at Nebraska and Indiana at Wisconsin in the Big Ten.
Georgia was supposed to play Virginia, Alabama was supposed to deal with USC, Florida State was going to play West Virginia, and Baylor was supposed to play Ole Miss, and there were a whole lot of paycheck/cupcake games on the slate, too.
No, Week 1 didn’t exactly capture the imagination of the college football world, and BYU putting away Navy after the first drive on Monday night didn’t help, but after a brutal six months of speculation, fear, and controversy, college football was played.
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That doesn’t mean that everything is fine now. Games are still being moved around, practices are being postponed, and the real world issues aren’t going away just because it sort of looked like there was college football again.
The social justice movement was an important part of the weekend on the field, in the TV studios, and on social media, and the constant reminders that we’re all still trying to live through a vicious global pandemic never allowed there be a true escape back into normalcy.
However, considering that just a few weeks ago it seemed like everything was going to be shut down, and there’s still the possibility that it might, we got to enjoy college football on Labor Day Weekend.
It’s a start.