All across the Southeastern Conference, administrators are counting on full stadiums for football this fall. After a season that lacked the pageantry and ambiance of a typical in-person experience, 2021 should look and feel like something close to normal and signal a real turning of the corner on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Like the rest of us, college football programs across the country are counting on the vaccination rates nationally to be high enough that COVID-19 is no longer a massive threat to both public health and their business model. But in the South in particular, college football should take an active role in making that happen.