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per the Tampa Bay Times:
Where 2020 college football season stands after a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week
Weeks of cautious optimism evaporated over 72 hours this week as college sports suffered its worst stretch since mid-March.
Back then, when the coronavirus pandemic was merely an emerging outbreak, the cascading cancellations began with Ivy League basketball and ended with three months’ worth of wiped-out championships.
This week’s sobering three-day flashback didn’t reach tsunami status. Instead, it has been a relentless rush of smaller waves that shows how little things have changed in four months.
Where 2020 college football season stands after a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week
So where does all of that leave us, eight weeks before the first major college football Saturday is scheduled to kick off?
We’ve known for months that the sport’s beloved pageantry would look different, but there was lingering hope that the schedule itself could still look normal. Not anymore. The Big Ten destroyed that possibility.
The new best-case scenario is that the SEC, ACC, AAC and focus on league-only schedules, too, while finding a way to preserve a few key cross-conference rivalries (like Florida-Florida State). Collectively, they shorten the season, add flexibility for the near-certain cancellations and push back the start date by a few weeks.
www.tampabay.com
Go Gophers!!
Where 2020 college football season stands after a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week
Weeks of cautious optimism evaporated over 72 hours this week as college sports suffered its worst stretch since mid-March.
Back then, when the coronavirus pandemic was merely an emerging outbreak, the cascading cancellations began with Ivy League basketball and ended with three months’ worth of wiped-out championships.
This week’s sobering three-day flashback didn’t reach tsunami status. Instead, it has been a relentless rush of smaller waves that shows how little things have changed in four months.
Where 2020 college football season stands after a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week
So where does all of that leave us, eight weeks before the first major college football Saturday is scheduled to kick off?
We’ve known for months that the sport’s beloved pageantry would look different, but there was lingering hope that the schedule itself could still look normal. Not anymore. The Big Ten destroyed that possibility.
The new best-case scenario is that the SEC, ACC, AAC and focus on league-only schedules, too, while finding a way to preserve a few key cross-conference rivalries (like Florida-Florida State). Collectively, they shorten the season, add flexibility for the near-certain cancellations and push back the start date by a few weeks.
Where college football stands after a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week
This week was a sobering flashback to mid-March, when the coronavirus pandemic was merely an emerging outbreak.
Go Gophers!!
