Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (“Time and Score for Dummies” booklet sold separately in State College):
FIRST QUARTER: IN 2020, COUNT ON NOTHING
There has never been a year in which daily outlooks and presumptions have changed more abruptly than this one. That goes for life in general, of course—eight months ago “zoom” was a verb and shaking hands was commonplace—but also in college football. Plot twists abound.
Take, for instance, the Big Ten conference, which already has had a couple months of wild mood swings. The league finally got its season off the ground over the weekend, and the results were everything that makes college football great: upsets, drama, excellence, controversy.