In the fourth quarter of Saturday afternoon’s 42-0 win against Middle Tennessee State, Army finished a 19-play, 99-yard touchdown drive that took 12 minutes, 26 seconds. In all, the Black Knights attempted two passes and ran the ball 64 times, with seven players rushing for somewhere between 28 and 91 yards.
College football is back. All that’s different: no fans, quiet whistles, face masks (and facemasks) and fewer games, period.
Under normal circumstances, Week 1 of the 2020 season would’ve featured just about every team in the 130-member Bowl Subdivision. Instead, the first full Saturday of the season had just six games, only half of which included opponents from the FBS.