UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — It is three hours before kickoff, high above an empty Gerald J. Ford Stadium, and the centerpiece of the home radio booth is a 32-ounce bottle of hand sanitizer.
The tube of last-ditch coronavirus protection rests on a table that doubles as the partition of this approximately 10-foot booth. To the left sits a makeshift video setup for the pregame show, a program normally broadcast from the team’s indoor practice facility about a 10-minute walk down the street. Two cameras, spotlights and individually marked headsets for the voices of SMU football are compacted into a five-foot radius.