The 2020 college football season will not look like any of its predecessors, thanks to the coronavirus. The consequences are wide-ranging, even bleeding over into Talking Season. This week was supposed to be SEC Media Days in Atlanta. Hundreds of reporters would be seen flipping through the pages of their Phil Steele College Football Preview as they typed furiously on keyboards. Thanks to COVID-19, SEC Media Days will be conducted virtually at a date not yet determined, while Phil Steele is still waiting for printers to finish publishing his beloved magazine.
The preseason Bible for college football fans, the 26th edition of Phil Steele’s College Football Preview almost didn’t happen, the publisher told The Athletic’s Andy Staples.