All this week, USA TODAY Sports will examine the possibility of a fall without football, and what that would mean in a country where the sport is king.
During an education roundtable last week with Vice President Mike Pence and other White House officials, LSU coach Ed Orgeron called football “the lifeblood of our country, in my opinion,” adding that as a country, “we need football.”
“I don't think we can take this away from these players, take this away from our state and our country,” Orgeron said. “It gets everything going, it gets the economy going, the economy of Baton Rouge, the economy of the state of Louisiana.