I don’t know if football will be played this fall. Neither do you. And there will be plenty of time to speculate between now and September. But the COVID-19 virus has made a full season played as normal highly questionable.
This pandemic has been widely compared to the 1918 Spanish Flu. So I was curious, what did KU football look like during that pandemic?
The Jayhawks did play a shortened season in 1918–only playing four games compared to eight games each of the previous six years—but there are multiple reasons given. The KU Alumni website, as does the American Football Database, credits the shortened season with a campus-wide influenza outbreak.