The COVID-19 pandemic has made this Easter Sunday a weird one, as many church services and family gatherings scheduled for the holiday have been shifted online instead.

The 2020 college football season could also be affected by the pandemic this fall, though it’s still too early to say one way or the other whether the season will start on time.

However, during a call this week, Arkansas AD Hunter Yurachek expressed his optimism that the season would start as scheduled:

“I’ll tell you what I think,” Yurachek said in a phone interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Thursday. “I think that will happen. I think we will get a full football season in. I think that will start on time.

“I think it’s something that our community and our country desperately needs, for professional and college athletics to start back up again. I feel comfortable. That is how we’re planning here at the University of Arkansas right now.”

Yurachek clarified that he doesn’t know one way or the other what the plan is at the moment, but just that his opinion is that a full season can be played.

We’ll see over the next couple of months if he’ll be proven right or not.