The Big Ten plans to have football back

Jeff Swensen for The New York Times

The Big Ten plans to have football back after all in 2020. But the atmosphere of sports on its campuses?

That’s going to be tough to find this fall.

Students want to be back on campus but it hasn’t been going well. Athletes in other sports want to compete again, too, but they remain in limbo while football moves forward.

And even those football games, if they happen as scheduled, will be unrecognizable from years past, without marching bands and jammed-pack student sections in giant stadiums.

As a Wisconsin graduate, I couldn’t imagine Big Ten schools without big-time sports. What does one of its campuses look like without the grandeur that comes with college…