Over the course of May, my perspective on what Saturdays in the fall would look like changed drastically. I went from thinking there was no chance football would happen en masse in September to considering it an absolute lock we would see games.
It means too much to the Ponzi scheme that college sports is for football to continue as close to normal as possible. Plus, the math increasingly says it is very unlikely for a student-athlete-aged patient to pass from the disease. The latest CDC numbers put the mortality at 0.1%. For context, the expected number of deaths if every Big Ten scholarship football player got it, one or two players would be expected to die.