As the autumn leaves begin to metamorphosize from vibrant green to a fiery hue of orange, the change in the weather signals the time of the year when pageantry, beauty and the mythology of the gridiron and legends past take center stage.
If the 2020 season is postponed, this would be the first time in nearly 102 years that a scheduled football season would fail to start as planned. A deadly combination of World War I and the Spanish Flu pandemic played a role in the 1918 season beginning in November.
Although the world isn’t at war, the threat of a pandemic continues to loom over the world as it did a century before and for there to be college football this fall, the process will be both long and arduous.