At some points in the pandemic, it wasn’t clear that there would even be a college football season. It seemed football players would have to break all the pandemic safety rules about keeping their distance from each other. [ns-video id=”88c7a8e56f53663355eba6be27f063d” publisher=”21905″]For the study, researchers from Texas A&M University tracked nearly 1,200 SEC football players between September 26 and December 19, 2020. In total, the players had 109,762 opposing-player interactions over 64 regular season games, the study found. “These are short bursts of exposure like what these football players had outside,” Gandhi said.

Source: CNN October 29, 2021 19:21 UTC