It took about five weeks of this pandemic-stricken summer for it to come apart. Less than a month before the season’s scheduled start, the Black Knights were down to three games. The greatest rebuilding projects in college football this year had nothing to do with on-field performance. Instead, with leagues canceling or limiting games, the most urgent efforts to resurrect football teams centered on a far more fundamental, widely shared conundrum: having games for teams to play at all. “But with what our planet has been through since March, it was just another you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me event.”

Source: New York Times September 11, 2020 15:45 UTC