The 2021 college football season holds the promise of a return to normal after a pandemic-wrecked fall led to cancellations, postponements and headache after headache.
The games are on. Fans are getting ready to head back into the stadiums. College sports is entering a new era, with less-restrictive transfer rules and players who are permitted for the first time to be paid endorsers.
And the pandemic is not over. While there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic that this season won’t be the struggle 2020 was, there is still more than a little uncertainty about how this all plays out — on the field and off as No.