Will Clemson football fans see a 2020 season? CFB Analysts have been weighing in
Clemson football fans, along with the rest of the country, are patiently waiting to see what will happen to the 2020 College Football season.
Amidst a nationwide pandemic, we have seen an increase of cases in many states around the country and several College Football programs have been victims of players testing positive since they returned to campus.
No program has been more prominently featured than Clemson football, who has been open and honest about its testing results. The Tigers have revealed that 37 players have tested positive since returning to campus earlier in June.
While positive cases were to be expected and there are some other positive developments when looking at nationwide statistics so far, many are beginning to doubt that the season will start on time or if we’ll even have a season altogether.
Here’s a look at what some of the most prominent College Football Analysts with inside sources have most recently said about the start of the 2020 season.
Kirk Herbstreit
Kirk Herbstreit was more than pessimistic about the start of the College Football season a few months ago and while he has come around, it’s clear he still has plenty of doubts.
Herbstreit made an appearance on the Jeff Rimer Show last week and discussed the 2020 season. Here’s what he had to say:
"“I’m very optimistic that we are going to see… some effort to have a season. It’s really changed… if you would have asked me that three weeks ago, I would have said man I feel I great. This thing is going in a great direction. But as you watch the news and follow this thing, you see spikes all over the place,” Herbstreit said via 247 Sports. “I don’t know if protests contributed to this or people not necessarily fearing the virus, but I think a laissez-faire attitude has really affected things. We don’t have a Roger Goodell in college football. You have the NCAA, which is not really even a governing body over college football, so you have rely on the Power Five commissioners. “I’m near Clemson right now at a lake, and whatever the rules are in this area are different than what they are for citizens in Columbus, Tallahassee, Eugene, Austin… it’s just very different than just a czar commissioner saying July 31, here’s what we are doing— you can’t do that. And because of that, it creates a lot of doubt. Maybe some teams don’t field teams this year. I’m still trying to stay optimistic, but there are red flags.”"