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Watch now: Illinois State football team back on campus with eye on Feb. 19 opener

NORMAL — Illinois State football players returned to campus on Friday and underwent COVID-19 testing with an eye on the Feb. 19 opening of the postponed Missouri Valley Football Conference season.

“They will quarantine until results come back,” ISU coach Brock Spack said. “We hope by Sunday we’ll be out there.”

The Redbirds, along with other FCS programs who plan to play a spring schedule, are allowed two weeks of “ramp up” before officially starting practice in preparation for the Feb. 19 opener against Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Game time has been set for 7 p.