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(04-16-2020 09:45 AM)Loco Bearcat Wrote:  

(04-16-2020 07:55 AM)OKIcat Wrote:  Circling back to the title of this thread, my sense as of today is yes, we will have college football this year. the NFL seems to be floating trial balloons this week about its season, with our without fans. I would expect college football to follow the NFL's lead on this. So we may see empty stadia, or greatly reduced capacity depending upon what social distancing restrictions remain in place. But if much of the country gets back to work in the May-June time frame it's reasonable to believe a modified fall practice schedule could begin in the July-August time frame.

Thank you for trying to get us back on the topic of this thread. I'm not as confident as you OKIcat that there will be College Football in 2020. I think that CFB will be back in the Spring of 2021. That's how I feel today, however we are learning more each day about this Novel Virus so CFB could return this fall.

I am leaning towards it being back this fall, but without fans (or at least a limited number that will be strategically placed in the stadium so they are at a certain distance from one another). The problem with this will be a big loss on ticket revenue, but TV ratings will be through the roof.