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With a pandemic nightmare looming in the fall, college leaders can still save football season

We are nearly a month from the start of formal 20-hour per-week college football practices and two months from the sport’s Week Zero kickoff.

As the numbers of positive COVID-19 tests spike across the country, college coaches have become increasingly dour about the prospect of any kind of functional college football season.

College football was always going to be the hardest sport to come back and play amid the pandemic. The sport is already sputtering to return in the voluntary workout phase, without the significant exposure increases that will come with actual practices, a full locker room setting and thousands of students returning to campus sometime near the start of the season.