ANNAPOLIS, Md. — There was no traffic pulling up to the stadium. No tailgating to be found. No fans in the stands. No band playing. Big plays were greeted not with cheers but with silence.
But there was college football Monday night with the Labor Day prime-time game that traditionally completes the opening weekend of the season.
That Brigham Young and Navy both entered unranked meant little. There was a feeling of normal again after the COVID-19 pandemic prematurely ended the college basketball season in March, and left the Big Ten and Pac-12 sidelined this fall.