Unfortunately, you know, the virus got worse in our communities.

Unfortunately, there's been increased risk factors for student athletes.

Unfortunately, testing capability hasn't gotten to the point we'd like it to get to it.

And our president's chances ultimately decided to really hit the pause button and re-evaluate for Post Gen 1.

That's PAC-12 Commissioner Larry Scott on ESPN back in August.

As the man who oversees around 7,000 athletes at 12 different universities in the West,

he was explaining the conference's decision to postpone fall sports.

Well, last week, the PAC-12 changed its mind and announced its football season would start on November 6th.

What you may not know is that in making that decision, Scott had some personal experience to inform him.

I described it as a combination of kind of a bad flu and upper respiratory, both hitting at the same time.

As in five days, I was knocked out pretty bad, including a lot of fatigue, but thankfully,

I didn't feel like I had a good hospital at any stage.

Larry Scott in his entire family of five had COVID-19 back in July.

So he had a pretty good idea of what was at risk here.

But he also told me that the PAC-12 had put together a plan that in his estimation,

he was confident about.

So today, we're going to talk about it.

How to play football in the middle of a pandemic, the 15,000 tests a week that will be necessary,

the monitoring of athletes' cardiac health, and what's football really going to feel like when there are no fans?

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, and this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

You had COVID. You got diagnosed.

I did. I believe I caught it from my eldest son who's a junior in college that was home.

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