In 2020, anything can happen, up to and including a quadruple doink of what could have been a game-winning field goal for a program that had to wait eight weeks longer than expected to play a game.

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (“Time and Score for Dummies” booklet sold separately in State College):

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FIRST QUARTER: IN 2020, COUNT ON NOTHING

There has never been a year in which daily outlooks and presumptions have changed more abruptly than this one. That goes for life in general, of course—eight months ago “zoom” was a verb and shaking hands was commonplace—but also in college football. Plot twists abound.

Take, for instance, the Big Ten conference, which already has had a couple months of wild mood swings. The league finally got its season off the ground over the