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BERKELEY, Calif. — There is more than college football. At a place like the University of California, Berkeley, football is merely one of 30 sports currently on pause.
Football gets the attention, and the money, which is why the Pac-12 Conference may decide, as early as this week, to jump-start its football teams after announcing in August that all sports were postponed until January, at least.
That decision will have huge ramifications — for fans, for budget directors, for the signal it sends about risk-reward calculations and priorities at top American public universities.