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Still football time in Tennessee — Tech football opening up spring season Sunday

When most people think of football, especially in the South, thoughts tend to drift to fall. Warm weather starts to turn cooler, the leaves start to change. Part of the pageantry of football comes from that tradition.

But then the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything in 2020.

Games that were expected to be played at their usual times weren’t. In just a matter of days, Tennessee Tech had its Football Bowl Subdivision game against Minnesota cancelled as the Big Ten went conference-only. Tech then scheduled contests against TCU and Southern Miss, but just a day or two later, the Ohio Valley Conference followed suit and postponed the football season – along with all fall sports – into the spring semester.