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Want to hold a college football season? Play fewer games and schedule accordingly

LOS ANGELES - On the surface, a college football season featuring at least three opening weekends among the Power Five conferences and no games between teams from the sport's gold-plated leagues draws an easy comparison to America's disparate national response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Given their distinct regional flavors, it came as a bit of a shock Friday when the Pac-12 followed the Southeastern Conference in announcing a 10-game conference-only slate to begin Sept. 26, delaying the start of the season by three weeks. At the same time, two Big 12 schools - Oklahoma and Kansas - moved

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