College Football is...and was King

From a George Will column today, about 1942 being a disruptive year, just as 2020 has become one:

1942

"When a foolhardy regent suggested canceling the University of Georgia’s football season, Gov. Eugene Talmadge (D) said that before doing that, they would try “putting our debutantes to hoeing potatoes.” The Bulldogs won the national championship. Seventy-eight years later, some football factories, a.k.a. universities, might be more apt to have football Saturdays than weekday classes."

Full column in the Washington Post.