There was a certain symmetry between everything that happened last Tuesday and the start of SMU’s football season.
The abrupt end to the 2020 campaign, the cancellation of the first bowl game in December, the frenetic scramble to find different teams to play — a routine that has become a staple as college football schedules have been decimated by the coronavirus — all of it sounds oddly familiar.
Most importantly, the same questions of whether it was responsible, or even possible, to play college football as COVID-19 ravages Texas, and the country.