PFB Update: Our Plan for Covering Oklahoma State Football in a Pandemic

I wanted to address this quickly before we get into August and all the question marks that will come with whatever college football camps look like this year. We are going to cover the season as if it’s going to happen on time until we hear anything otherwise.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be dropping position previews, predictions and notes on what OSU has on the slate for the 2020 season, which will hopefully start on Sept. 3, 4 or 5 against a new opponent (after Oregon State bailed on non-conference games) or at least on Sept. 12 against Tulsa in Stillwater.

This will almost assuredly change along the way, and we will adjust our timeframe accordingly, but I wanted to let you guys know that you can expect a ton of (hopefully!) non-t-shirt content (!!) over the next six week as we (again hopefully!) ease into the 2020 season.

“It’s been a weird year” is the catchphrase du jour these days for most humans on the planet, and we are certainly not exempt. Are we tired of covering Mike Gundy’s clothing and assessing antibodies? We are. Not that they didn’t need to be covered, but the offseason grind is not helped by controversy. It has not been fun.

We’re as hopeful that there’s a season over the next five months as anyone and prepared to cover it as comprehensively as you’ve come to expect from PFB over the last few years, with writers in Stillwater, a photographer (if this is allowed?), daily columns and notes, tons of recaps and previews, recruiting updates, our pod and our forum (which you should join!). If the season is delayed or canceled, we’ll cover that too.

I think I speak for everyone (internally and externally) when I say I’m ready for some kind of season, even an abbreviated, sometimes-paused one. It’s been such a long, bizarre year it’s even easy to forget that OSU is one of the Big 12 favorites (remember the optimism of that pep rally in January!). Hopefully we get to see some version of that play out in BPS and beyond from now until the end of a not-so-good-often-very-bad 2020.