SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has a Microsoft Word document on his computer with an exhaustive list of sporting events that will occur before the start of the college football season.
It’s labeled, “TIMELINE OF EVENTS,” and has everything from NASCAR races to the start of NFL training camp to the Major League Baseball schedule. Sankey has even joked that he has surpassed his lifetime television consumption of the MLS to track that league during the pandemic.
There has been a built-in voyeuristic tactic to how college football has plodded ahead while attempting to hold a season.