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Tom Oates: Brace for the unthinkable with college football

Think back to a month ago, when the sports world was first put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the time, we were talking about pushing the start of the Major League Baseball season back a month, the NBA and NHL going straight to the playoffs after a short hiatus, postponing the NCAA men’s basketball tournament for awhile and resuming spring football practice when the students returned to campus from spring break.

Boy, were we naive or what?