The pandemic season of 2020 is really rolling along now with Week 4. Regular COVID testing and contact tracing has left a mark across college football with multiple teams facing opt-outs and challenging levels of player availability. A few games have been "postponed" and likely cancelled, and now the SEC is joining the madness with their conference-only season.
Week 3 was diminished when the freshly scheduled Houston-Baylor game was "postponed" because contact tracing and an unrelated player suspension diminished Baylor's ability to meet the Big 12 threshold of having seven healthy offensive linemen that could take the field.