The 2020 college football season could look drastically different due to COVID-19. Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports

ESPN's Chris Fowler: Impossible to have normal college football season

By Erin Walsh | Last updated 4/13/20

With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the nation, there's no sign of sports coming back anytime soon. With the NHL, NBA, MLB and MLS seasons on pause due to the deadly virus, the NFL and college football seasons are now in jeopardy.

At this point both football seasons will go on as scheduled, but that's subject to change at any moment.

Chris Fowler of ESPN thinks it's impossible to have a normal college football season with all that's going on. However, he does believe there will be a season in some sort of capacity.

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We are 20 Saturdays from the SCHEDULED start of CFB.. so how likely is that looking? What scenarios are being weighed? When will we know more? Who’s gonna decide all this? You sure are asking a lot of questions! And I get it. I’m starving for answers too. So here’s some “informed speculation” on where we are now after checking in with folks this week. I can only be so specific and people don’t want their names attached to this topic right now. But... here goes. Please comment with your take if you like. #cfb #collegefootball #football #sports @espn @espncfb

A post shared by Chris Fowler (@chrisfowler) on Apr 11, 2020 at 10:44am PDT

If the football season does begin on time, it seems more and more likely that stadiums will be empty and some sort of quarantining will have to go on.

If Fowler is right, then we're in for a huge shakeup come the beginning of the season.

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