Gotta be tough on the scout team, many of whom may not have travelled to Tempe. (OK, I know there won't be scout team practices. And how do you prepare for an opponent on two days, while you are on the road, and weren't even scheduled to play each other in the revised season schedule?)

Ivy League now cancelling winter sports:
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/30305855/ivy-league-cancels-winter-sports-season-delaying-spring-play-sources-say

...and Indiana beat Michigan today, 38-21. Indiana the Beast of the East? (Though to be fair, the Hoosiers have a lot more experience playing in front of small crowds.)

Anybody have Indiana beating Penn State in overtime on the road?

I'm a generation up on you. My dad was in college as the war broke out. Finished his undergrad in three years and medical school in another three because curricula were compressed for the war effort. Went to Europe in the army of occupation in '46 or '47. Had an uncle who was in heavy combat. I think he was in North Africa, but for sure landed at Anzio and spent three days under fire in a foxhole on the beach. My Dad says the uncle (his brother-in-law) was never the same when he returned. Probably what we now call post traumatic stress disorder.

And to wander further off topic my father-in-law was a pretty decent baseball player. He was stationed in the U.K. as a mechanic in the army air corps during WWII. They would patch up planes after bombing missions to get them ready for the next raid, then play ball the rest of the day. A bit like "M*A*S*H" in that they would often play against other airbases in England. I always joked that he kept the world safe for democracy by playing ball.

Point made, and it does feel weird. The whole season feels weird. I follow a Big Ten team out of family loyalty. The conference started play last weekend. Coming up on the second weekend of play and the Wisconsin vs Nebraska game has already been cancelled. Those two teams could be competing for the conference’s West division title, but they will not play. All very strange.

(Not to be a jerk about this, this is not the first season the Ags have not played football. (Three "nots" in one sentence...?) UC Davis started playing football in 1915. They did not compete in 1918 due to WWI and from 1943 to 1945 due to WWII.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ucdavisaggies.com/documents/2019/8/29/_19_FB_Record_Book.pdf )

I have to begrudgingly admit there are practical reasons for names on the uniforms. Look at a program like USC. There are so many players that numbers are repeated with a number on an offensive player and the same number on a defensive player. The game program (at a small forutne) doesn't help as much as having the name on the jersey does.

I'm old...love the classic navy, er, Yale blue, jerseys & gold pants with the gold helmet.

Don't know why any team needs more than a home uni and a road uni, but I guess the players like it. Never figured out why we have grey on any uniform. Not a Davis color, and looks like Nevada or Georgetown or a Civil War reenactment. I'm also enough of an old guy that I like the idea of not having names on the jerseys. No "I" in team...but I guess there's an "I" in uniform. Whatever people might say about USC, they don't have names on their jerseys. They have worn the same uniforms for years. They win more than they lose. (Yeah, maybe USC cannot pay for new uniforms with all the fines and judgments the school is paying for this and that, as well as paying us to get out of a contract...and they no longer earn money from worried Hollywood types trying to get their kids into school by claiming they play on the squash team.)

Took the dog for some exercise at Sac this morning. Football team conducting what I guess are off-off season practices.

...to say nothing of the cost associated with dealing with the pandemic itself....medical testing, finding space to keep players and staff at a safe distance,...medical costs when players and staff test positive, ...i assume medical insurance costs will rise, too. And all without ticket and concession revenue.

From Sac's athletic site:
https://www.hornetsports.com/sports/fball/2020-21/releases/20201015i09uoy

From the Bee:
https://www.sacbee.com/sports/college/article246477230.html

I was raised to hate Notre Dame, but did see a football game there in late fall about 15 years ao. Something a college football fan ought to do once in life. The spirit, the fall colors...what football should be.

"I'm in!"

There is a story, perhaps fictional, that many years ago a broadcaster (Chris Schenkel??) referred to Southern Methodist University teams as the "Ponies" because Chevrolet advertised the broadcasts and he didn't want to give any publicity to Ford Mustangs.

"For what purpose? Why test healthy young people, and healthy asymptomatic young people?"

Just a guess, but to make sure they are healthy?

Thoughts, prayers and best wishes go out to Coach Biggs and his family. From everything I have seen or read about him, he is, as Dr. Mike notes, "a quality person. A real Aggie legend." I believe he is a man of great faith. I trust that will be a great source of strength for him. A big "Go Ags!" to the Coach.

If we have rowing, wrestling, squash or cycling they are all at the club & rec sport level, rather than the inter-scholastic team sport (NCAA, etc.) level. Add rugby from your narrative, though not on your enumerated list. (And FWIW, rugby is more like soccer than football in that teams play for a something close to two continuous 45 minute halves, not the 5 seconds of action followed by 30-40 seconds of huddle in gridiron football, but I digress.) Club sports are really going to suffer with fewer students on campus and less money. I think it's safe to assume that the school isn't going to be coming up with a lot of financial support for club, rec, and IM sports. AND the associations that sanction those sports may not do so this coming school year. Field hockey will die for lack of competition in the Pacific and Mountain time zones.

Riveraggie, the internet and sports chat sites are terrible places to express these things, but I am sorry to hear of your losses. My thoughts, wishes and prayers go out to you.

The cruel side of cutting sports as Iowa cuts four of them. (Iowa "released" their football conditioning coach over allegations of racism. They buyout of this one coach would have funded the four sports that were cut.)

https://www.si.com/college/2020/08/25/iowa-cuts-sports-swimming-gymnastics-tennis

Tough to be a Hawkeye fan, though I somehow still am.

Half a year into this thing and little about it is a "given." Remember when it was going to decline in the heat of the summer? More and more stories about serious conditions that fall short of mortality....unclear if younger people will transmit the disease even if they are asyptomatic themselves. New stories every week about whether or not those infected will develop any immunity and if so, for how long. I find myself constantly saying, "We don't know what he don't know." Not a real profound thought but seems to be a fair comment.