The Big 10 isn’t playing. The Pac 12 isn’t playing. There are many players who were set to suit up for college football who won’t get to do so, and the question of what those players do now and what happens to them during the run-up to the NFL Draft next year is going to loom over the months to come.
The Big 12, meanwhile, is planning to play, and the SEC and ACC may be as well. Those players face an entirely different set of challenges, including navigating the background hum of COVID-19 at every practice and during every game, and being potentially one of a relatively small group of players actually giving NFL GMs and decision makers 2020 film to watch heading into next year’s draft.