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College football must seriously consider moving season to spring | Commentary

As much as we all desperately want college football season to start on time, the sport may be better served adopting the same reminder we use to recall which direction to adjust our clocks at the beginning and end of daylight-savings time.

Don’t kid yourself, with COVID-19 cases exploding in many states across the country, there are more and more discussions behind closed doors about pushing back the traditional fall football season and instead finishing it in the spring.

“The one thing you don’t want,” one high-ranking college administrator told me, “is to start the season in the fall and then have to shut it down after a couple of games.