As we continue to get closer to the scheduled start of college football, more news comes out seemingly daily about different college football teams getting hit by coronavirus. We’ve decided to try and make it as easy as possible for everyone by starting a tracker of what teams are publicly acknowledging issues they have had.
Earlier in the week we saw the University of Texas football team announce that 13 players tested positive. This comes after the University of Houston suspended voluntary workouts just over a week ago because of six athletes testing positive for coronavirus.
The last couple of days saw more schools come forward with announced cases of coronavirus, including:
Clemson had 28 student-athletes test positive for coronavirus this week, 23 of which play football.
At least 30 players at LSU are being quarantined due to a COVID-19 outbreak. There is no word on how many of those players tested positive or how many are believed to have been exposed to the virus.
Kansas State has shut down football workouts for two weeks after 14 of the 130 student-athletes they’ve tested came back with positive tests.
In-state rivals Alabama and Auburn have both dealt with positive cases in the last week.
Also, recently two players at South Florida tested positive while a second player at West Virginia tested positive on Saturday.
We’ll do our best to keep you up to speed on the outbreaks and if other schools have to suspend workouts like Kansas State and Houston have now had to.
Let’s hope first that those who have the virus recover quickly and don’t suffer any lasting effects. On top of that, let’s also hope that it’s a rough patch early on after reporting back to campus and that these outbreaks go down significantly in a matter of days, and not just because of less tests being administered.