Whether you view the college football season as a marathon or a sprint, the Power Five conferences are at extremely dissimilar spots on the race track as we enter Week 4 of the 2020 campaign.
Both the ACC and Big 12 started playing two weeks ago, although four of those teams—Baylor, TCU, Virginia and Virginia Tech—still have not played a single game because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The SEC's long-awaited season debut will arrive this Saturday. The Big Ten won't kick off for another month. The Pac-12 may decide to have a fall season after all.
Keeping track of it all has been, in a word, exhausting.