Perspective: What to make of this strange college football weekend? 2020 is unpredictable.
The correct answer seems to be eight, but it does point to another unforeseen — and trivial — effect of the pandemic. The novelwill attach itself to college football’s rich, vivid, naughty lore for reasons more than just that it shook a season into a mess if not a joke. It will add sparkle to old victories because teams overcame inconvenience, and it will subtract pain from old losses because teams suffered inconvenience.
“People were so selfless,” quarterback Skylar Thompson said of the two weeks since Kansas State opened with a 35-31 home loss to Arkansas State, a fact that magnified the shock of Saturday.All felt what they felt because of an ancient dynamic coursing through all of college football — that of the lopsided series where one side, usually a kingdom, wins perennially over another, always not a kingdom.
“It was scheme,” LSU Coach Ed Orgeron said to remove heat from his youngsters. “You know, a lot of times they caught us in man [defense], they had some crossing routes, but we just couldn’t cover the guys.” Yet if one was sitting around at home or in the four-fifths-empty stadium wearing purple and gold, why, one might have wondered.One might have wondered how star cornerback Derek Stingley Jr.
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