Barry Svrluga: It’s a caste system. A scholarship football player gets tested every day, while a future chemist paying $45,000 a year to attend virtual classes from her dorm room has no such luxury.

None of the 13 FCS conferences – including the Colonial Athletic Association, which includes the UMaine among its 12 schools – are playing league games this fall.

With 53 of the 130 top-level teams not playing this season, games begin for schools with hopes of reaching the FBS playoffs and competing for a championship.

Wayne Sebastianelli, Penn State’s director of athletic medicine, says of the coronavirus, “we really just don’t know what to do with it right now.”