Welcome to the (weird) 2020 season
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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The Athletic's Andy Staples and Ari Wasserman unofficially welcome you to the weirdest season in college football history.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:23.3 | We are taking a turn today. |
| 0:26.0 | The last few months have been about what's going to happen. |
| 0:31.0 | Is there going to be a season? |
| 0:32.4 | Is there not going to be a season? |
| 0:33.5 | Is there going to be a spring season? |
| 0:34.8 | What did this conference do? |
| 0:35.8 | What did that conference do? |
| 0:37.3 | Well, right now as we sit, we are 10 days away from two scheduled FBS games. |
| 0:45.3 | They may or may not happen, but I think at a certain point, we have to assume they are going to happen. |
| 0:50.7 | So today's going to be the day we start assuming games get played. |
| 0:55.0 | And to talk about it, I bring in Ari Wasserman because we got to discuss this, Ari, |
| 1:00.6 | what is this season going to look like? I mean, not just the playoff, conference races, |
| 1:09.0 | conference-only schedules. |
| 1:14.1 | This is going to be really weird. |
| 1:16.1 | It is going to be very weird. |
| 1:21.0 | And I'll be honest with you, Andy, when the Big Ten and Pac-12 canceled, I gave it 10 days, |
| 1:24.1 | a week to 10 days before the rest fell in line. |
| 1:27.1 | And now, like, this is becoming real. |
| 1:29.4 | And, like, I always thought that this wasn't going to happen. |
| 1:32.3 | I thought the Big Ten and the Pack 12 will be the first two. |
| 1:38.5 | Then the other conferences and people in charge would kind of decide and understand that maybe this isn't a possible thing to do, and here we are. |
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