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Clemson football: New CDC guidelines are big for 2021 CFB season

By Andrew Boardwine

Clemson running back Darien Rencher (21) runs down the hill with teammates before the game at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina Saturday, September 21, 2019.Clemson Football Darien Rencher Rise From Walk On
Clemson running back Darien Rencher (21) runs down the hill with teammates before the game at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina Saturday, September 21, 2019.Clemson Football Darien Rencher Rise From Walk On /
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New CDC guidelines are big for 2021 Clemson football season

Clemson football fans hoping for normalcy during the 2021 College Football season received some promising news earlier this month with the latest CDC guidelines.

We are not health experts- nor do we pretend to be- so we’re not going to talk about anything other than this newly-released statement from the CDC pertaining to those who have received the vaccine.

"If you’ve been fully vaccinated:You can gather indoors with fully vaccinated people without wearing a mask. You can gather indoors with unvaccinated people from one other household (for example, visiting with relatives who all live together) without masks, unless any of those people or anyone they live with has an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19.If you’ve been around someone who has COVID-19, you do not need to stay away from others or get tested unless you have symptoms."

Guidelines are always subject to change and we are still several months away from the football season, but this certainly seems like a promising step to not only getting fans back in the stands for games but also for playing the games themselves.

What do we mean?

Clemson football is moving forward with the plan of having full-capacity for the 2021 season and that’s something that everyone wants to see happen.

Everyone is talking about the potential for fans to be in the stands and that is huge.

One aspect that many aren’t talking about, though, is the games themselves. We saw 139 FBS games canceled or postponed due to the virus last fall.

According to the new CDC guidelines, if an athlete gets the vaccine, they will no longer have to get tested regularly as they had to do last season. If they are exposed to someone who has the virus, they don’t need to quarantine or get tested unless they have symptoms.

Contact-tracing rules that kept many athletes out of games and even saw us postpone and cancel many would no longer apply to those who have received the vaccine. That at least needs to be something we all consider a step in the direction of getting back to normalcy again.

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Only time will tell what the 2021 College Football season will look like, but we absolutely have hope that we can get back to a more normal sense of life that includes fans in the stands and games being played on schedule.

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