College Football in Covid Time Is a Failure. Surprised?
The major football conferences thought they could reap the TV money they feared they would lose and outsmart the virus. Wrong.
Not quite the same college football experience this year.
Photographer: Scott Taetsch/Getty Images North AmericaTell me again how the major college football conferences care about the “health and well-being of our student-athletes,” as they put it in their various pandemic-related statements. Puleeze.
This weekend, eight college football games have been either postponed or canceled. They include the marquee Alabama-Louisiana State matchup, one of four Southeastern Conference games that won’t be played on Saturday, as well as one Big Ten game (Ohio State-Maryland). And as of this writing, the University of California, Berkeley, is still waiting to hear if the city of Berkeley will allow its team to play a scheduled contest against Pac-12 rival Arizona State.