I like to take a look at history every offseason, and what better time to do that than now? Nothing is going on, and there is doubt about what the fall football season will look like if it happens at all.
The last time Florida football faced a situation where a global pandemic threatened a season was 1918. What was the sport like back then? Barely anything we’d recognize today.
The college football scene
The NCAA itself only came into being in 1906, and it used a different name until 1910. That’s the kind of time frame we’re discussing here.