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As with all things related to college football at the moment, The Associated Press preseason All-America team, which was revealed on Tuesday, might look good only on paper. It included Oregon tackle Penei Sewell, Penn State linebacker Micah Parsons and Pittsburgh defensive tackle Jaylen Twyman — along with eight others who won’t play football this fall, because either they or their university presidents did not believe it was safe.
The announcement became another in the persistent drip of reminders about how tenuous this truncated, diminished college football season remains less than two weeks before it is scheduled to kick off into the teeth of a pandemic.