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Colleges are reportedly considering several different unique options to save their football season if the coronavirus ends up being a seasonal virus.
One of the ideas floated by colleges is to move up the football season and play games to avoid of a second wave of Covid-19 in the fall if the virus is seasonal as many experts predict.
Colleges have looked into moving football season up to July, August and September this season, @SmittySBJ reports. An abbreviated summer season is "an opportunity to play games when the warm weather could help prevent the spread of the virus." https://t.co/azqWg8R4ZF
— John Ourand (@Ourand_Puck) March 28, 2020
Every other scenario has the season starting later in the fall, at a time when the coronavirus could be returning for another round of infections as the cool weather returns and a vaccine most likely unavailable until 2021. But staging an abbreviated college football season in the summer presents an opportunity to play games when the warm weather could help prevent the spread of the virus.
There is no evidence yet that the current virus is seasonal but Dr Fauci believes that may be the case which is leading to sports leagues to start thinking of a fall/winter with no sports.
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We’re going to have to wait and see how things play out in the next coming months but it’s hard to see colleges playing football in the summer in the extreme heat.