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Bob Bowlsby believes 2020 football season will start ‘close to on time’

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Bob Bowlsby has heard the question. Frankly, it is the dominant question in all corners of collegiate athletics right now.

The trouble is, the question of whether or not the 2020 college football season will start on time involves so many variables that an answer is a long way off less than four months before games are scheduled to be played.

The Big 12 Conference commissioner has spent four decades as an administrator in college sports and he says the COVID-19 pandemic is unlike most issues that will have a defined beginning, middle and end.