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BYU coach hopeful players who tested positive for COVID-19 can return to team before home opener

PROVO — BYU offensive lineman James Empey on Monday described the 2020 college football season as a “wild ride” and a “roller coaster, going through the ups and downs” that each week seems to bring for the Cougars and all other teams still trying to play a contact sport in the middle of a pandemic.

Probably more of the same, BYU coach Kalani Sitake said, before adding: “This thing is impossible to predict.”

The “thing,” of course, is the novel coronavirus that forced the postponement, or possible cancellation, of BYU’s scheduled game at Army this Saturday. Sitake said BYU and Army officials want to reschedule the game, perhaps the weekend of Nov.