Promoting an NFL season would be difficult enough in times of a pandemic, let alone college football. Last Saturday, Florida Gators coach Dan Muller said he would like to play the classic against LSU Tigers in front of an audience of 90,000 fans. But this Wednesday, the match idealized by the commander ended up being postponed by an outbreak of coronavirus in the University of Florida team.
The Gators announced that 21 players have tested positive for COVID-19. Thus, the game scheduled for this Saturday should only take place on December 12th. The sports department at the University of Florida also disclosed that it is unable to point out when the Gators will be completely healthy to return to the field, which could even compromise another week of College Football competitions, when the team has a scheduled match against Missouri. .
The new coronavirus has greatly affected the college football calendar. The Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences have yet to start their seasons. The postponement of the Florida-LSU game is just one of several proposed changes to College Football schedules because of the pandemic. Even so, the category’s duels are being disputed with the significant presence of public in the stadiums, contrary to the strict norms of the most diverse professional sports in the United States.
It should be noted that recently Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, decided that the state’s sports associations have autonomy to fully release the public in stadiums, including college football teams. Despite this, in the NFL, the Dolphins, for example, announced that they will continue to keep the capacity of Hard Rock Stadium reduced to 13,000 spectators.
