Originally planning for this season, by now we would have attended possibly three games by now. However as we all already know, this year is unlike any other. Someone needs to call a do-over! We know that’s not going to happen, so the only alternative is to press on and make this bad situation tolerable by adapting to overcome what we are all going through.

All our plans on the previous post, well throw them out the window! Fewer teams are playing, and all those kicking off the 2020 fall season will be void of fans or will limit their seating capacity to 25% of a full stadium. Basically those attending can only gain access with season tickets. Even those don’t guarantee attendance at every home game. In most cases, tailgating is prohibited. This is college football?

Like mostly everyone else, Collegefootballfan.com will be watching on TV from home after 40 years of attending games just about every fall weekend. That just adds to this depressing time, where we can say that we are at least in our case we’re still employed while working from home avoiding daily, long commutes which we’ve gotten used to and hope to continue. However, life outside of work, it drags on, avoiding interaction with others and trying to find worthwhile things to do, whether self-entertaining or even dedicating time to help others with their needs.

College football season always ends routines of working around the yard and other required responsibilities around the house. Hot weather subsided with the fresh scent of Autumn in the air signaling a time for pads to start popping. For us, this time of year morphs into opportunities to travel, to party with friends, share good times, and relish great American traditions of the best spectator sport in history – “college” football. It always brings great people together. For us, this is always a special time of year that speeds us into the Christmas season and then into Bowl Season!

So as the 2020 season kicks off, don’t expect a lot of game reporting from yours truly this season. We just pray that play will continue. As of now, our total of 610 games stalls at that number for at least a few weeks. Of all games planned for, the only one that we look sure to attend looms in October in Texas. Depending on pending announcements by some programs to open up more seating as the season progresses, our attendance depends on attaining tickets direct through schools if available, or through friends with season tickets. At this point, we cannot rely on online ticket distribution as one cannot be sure if such tickets will be honored based on schools’ distribution policies. So it’s good to have friends with tickets in high or low seats. We’ll take what we can get with enough notice to do so economically. Nothing is certain, even the possibility that an entire season can be played.

There’s possibly some silver linings. The Big Ten may start playing Thanksgiving weekend. We have our Penn State connection, but will fans be allowed by then? Where will the games be played? Rumors persist they will be relegated to indoor stadiums within the “footprint” of the conference. We can only hope they play, but despite weather conditions, we can attend some games further east than where this footprint lies.

Also this spring, supposedly 13 FCS Conferences will play a shortened season. We’re in for two or more season ticket packages somewhere from Delaware to Ohio to Rhode Island to cover the time frame to get seats if they’ll give enough notice that fans can attend. We’re keeping our eyes, ears, and options open. With some progress to put Covid-19 behind us, people everywhere and fans at games adhering to preventive measures, players avoiding any major outbreaks this fall, and an earlier than anticipated vaccine developed, at best we can hope for an extended college football “season” of games played from early fall through late spring. We can only hope, but for now, we seem relegated to sitting on our coach to see the action we usually enjoy in person. Let’s hope everyone’s efforts gets us back to some form of “Normalcy”. For now, we’ll adapt as best we can to eventually overcome these crazy, unusual, and uncertain times.