After a long summer filled with uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the prospect of having a football season seemed remote.
But NCAA football has returned, despite concerns about COVID-19 outbreaks. According to ESPN’s Alex Scarbrough, there are more than two dozen players skipping the college season to both prepare for the NFL and to avoid contracting the coronavirus., but there’s a potential problem moving forward for some — players such as wide receiver Ja’marr Chase of LSU, 10 UCF players, wide receiver Sage Surratt from Wake Forest, running back Kennedy Brooks from Oklahoma and cornerback Kary Vincent from LSU, among others.
Still, the Big Ten announced this week that it will have a season after all. Other conferences are already playing, either without fans or with limited capacity in stadiums.
Alabama head coach Nick Saban said it might be time for college football to look at adding something or someone who could make sense out of the current situation.
“I think that it’s important — at least I look at it as if it’s important that we have something, or someone, some organizational body who can bring everybody together,” he said. “And I don’t know if that’s a commissioner, if it’s some council, I don’t know if it’s a committee someplace. I really don’t know the best way to do that, but I do think that it would benefit college football if the five major conferences could always sort of come together on what’s best for college football.”
