As I enter my senior year at The University of Alabama, unfortunately in the midst of a pandemic, I begin to reflect on all the games I've attended as a student here. Walking into Bryant Denny Stadium for the first time as a freshmen gives off a huge boost of serotonin and still does.
As we enjoy a full weekend of football, both collegiate and professional, the question of a championship asterisk still looms over the 2020 college football season.
Injuries and contact tracing of a handful of positive COVID-19 cases halt Tennessee's Saturday scrimmage and its preparation for the season opener against South Carolina.
Although the players underwent numerous COVID-19 tests prior to the game there was a concern that when two teams clashed on the field there might be a spread of undetected coronavirus, halting the progress of the 2020 football season. College football got more good news as the Central Arkansas players and staff have undergone two COVID-19 tests after the game and have all come back negative.
The Auburn Tigers did not hold football practices last week due to numerous student-athletes being placed in quarantine due to COVID-19 infection and exposure. The Tigers set the preparation for the 2020 season back by canceling two practices and a scrimmage.
I scanned through the audience of 2,000 people who were all masked up, I had one question on my mind: Will this FCS matchup lead to a domino effect throughout all of college football?
In a now-annual series from ESPN called Position-U, the "World-Wide Leader" named the Alabama Crimson Tide as the top school for running backs and offensive linemen based on college-to-NFL success.