As college football programs race to bring players back to campus for workouts beginning as early as next week, confidence in a season beginning on time is undergirded by statistics that suggest the odds of a college-aged athlete dying from COVID-19 are extremely low.
Conference commissioners, college presidents, athletics directors have acknowledged that as football teams return to play, there will inevitably be cases and perhaps even outbreaks that pop up in athletics facilities. The belief — or maybe it’s merely a hope — is that players who contract the virus will recover because they are healthy and young.