With multiple bowl games canceled, along with the risk of the College Football Playoff suffering from the same fate, COVID-19 is back to ruining college football.
The 2021-22 college football season had been holding its own very well in regards to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic up until now.
However, with the finale of what has been a stellar season sitting at severe risk of cancellation (that multiple bowl games have already fallen victim to), fans everywhere are realizing that the virus has gone nowhere.
These returning issues do not have anyone blaming COVID-19 itself, though. Rather, just about all of the criticism has been pushed onto the CFP Management Committee’s reaction to it.
Allegedly, the CFP is practicing “outdated” methods of handling the virus’s spreading and is criminally overreacting to it as a result. The ones making this case are going as far as to say that COVID (at least in its current state) is no worse than that of a cold or the flu.
Now the folks making these proclamations are not doctors, and these attempts at gauging the seriousness of the virus are in no way new. However, it is strange that the entire college football season went off with barely any trouble, yet things are now back to cancel this and cancel that.
If doing so is deemed necessary, a College Football Playoff game (potentially even the national championship) could be written off due to a participating team’s forfeit. It has been decided that if such an instance were to occur, there would be little-to-no opportunities to reschedule.
If this rule was strictly hypothetical, there would most likely be very little uproar about it. However, with cancellations becoming more and more prevalent, along with No. 3 Georgia suffering from some COVID issues of its own, the more pessimistic of individuals see where things are heading (and are not happy about it).
Even some of the bigger names in sports media are voicing their frustrations with the strict guidelines, including Barrett Sallee and Josh Pate.
Unlike many others, I am not going to run the risk of stirring any pots by dishing out my own opinions on this situation, especially with it snowballing as we speak. Instead, I think everyone should just hope and pray that the conclusion of this awesome college football season is not tarnished any further than it already has been.