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Polling Place: Are CFB coaches, administrators doing all they can to keep players safe?

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There certainly are those who believe college football simply won’t — and perhaps shouldn’t — happen in 2020.

Meanwhile, the sport marches on — ill-fated or not — toward the start of what’s scheduled to be a slightly shortened regular season.

Across the country, training camps opened, or at least were scheduled to open, earlier this week. At one of those places, Illinois, it was announced by the school that no fewer than 18 football players had tested positive for COVID-19 since reporting to campus. But Illinois also intends to test players daily, which is more than most schools can say.