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Nickel: He missed 15 months of football, lost a friend to suicide and caught COVID-19. Life is different for UW’s Scott Nelson.

What is college football for, anyway? Not for our entertainment or our diversion, not ideally. Not to make billions. At least it shouldn’t be. It’s meeting challenges. It’s sportsmanship. It’s gaining life lessons and handling them with the learned skills of discipline, delayed gratification and truly understanding what it means to be part of a team.