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Lion’s share of credit: Tim Brando praises young athletes for playing through adversity of 2020

Ryan Williamson

By Ryan Williamson

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It’s the Sunday after a Saturday filled with college football action. That means it’s time to get the opinion of FOX college football announcer Tim Brando.

Brando, who was in Pullman doing the Oregon-Washington State game, gave us his wrap up of the weekend’s action in college football. Brando had the task of discussing the action on the field but also the elephant in the room that is the increasing number of cancellations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

He did all of that in this week’s On Brando:

 

There were 15 cancellations/postponements across college football this past weekend. To start, Brando acknowledges that and just how challenging COVID has been for everyone in college football while also praising the players.

“Regardless of the circumstances during the COVID era that everyone has had to deal with,” Brando said. “The players are the ones that are responsible for us having college football, particularly in the Big 10 and Pac 12.”

Brando continued dishing out the credit.

“We should give those young men and those programs the lion’s share of credit of giving us what we need, what we want out of a very difficult and certainly not ideal season.”

Now that he had acknowledged the games not taking place, Brando went into what happened on the field this week. In the Big Ten, Brando mentioned Nebraska finishing off a big win against Penn State, something he believes had yet to happen in the Scott Frost era.

On top of that, Brando questioned the psyche at programs such as Michigan and Penn State while praising Wisconsin believing the Badgers could “give Ohio State trouble” this season.

Brando touched on some of college football’s other biggest stories including Florida, Notre Dame, Cincinnati, BYU and Liberty.

To wrap things up, Brando went back to the current landscape we’re in and the changing happening all around college football, especially with Pac-12 teams changing opponents at the last moment.

“That’s the kind of progressive thinking we need in college football,” Brando said in his closing remarks. “College football is awesome. We just want it to be better.”

Ryan Williamson