Arizona State professor Victoria Jackson believes there should be no college football in 2020-21, and not just because of the coronavirus risks for players and staff.
Jackson, the NCAA 10,000-meter track champion when she competed for ASU from 2004-06, believes the confluence of social rights protests, college athletes rights issues and the COVID-19 pandemic are an opportunity to examine football's position and role.
"We should take advantage of this moment to think about the place of college football on our campuses and what higher education's relationship with the game should be going forward," Jackson said.
Jackson first proposed the idea of cancelling football for a year in an op-ed published in the Boston Globe.