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COLUMN: As Bowl Game Date Passed With No Game, Maybe This was the Only Way to End the 2020 Season Could End

There was a certain symmetry between everything that happened last Tuesday and the start of SMU’s football season.

Spencer Stewart// PonyFans.com

The abrupt end to the 2020 campaign, the cancellation of the first bowl game in December, the frenetic scramble to find different teams to play — a routine that has become a staple as college football schedules have been decimated by the coronavirus — all of it sounds oddly familiar.

Most importantly, the same questions of whether it was responsible, or even possible, to play college football as COVID-19 ravages Texas, and the country.