FORT COLLINS, Colo. Colorado State is pausing all football activities after an investigation started by the president of the university into the programs handling of COVID-19 cases uncovered allegations of racism and verbal abuse toward athletes. Today, we learned of some extremely troubling allegations of racism and verbal abuse from CSUs athletic administration generally and in the football program specifically," Parke said. Colorado State University is committed to being an anti-racist university, and we will not tolerate any behavior or climate that goes against that core value, Parker said. While we have been working hard towards playing football this fall, the holistic well-being of our student-athletes is our unequivocal top priority, Parker said. The Rams were scheduled to open the season Sept. 19 by hosting Northern Colorado, but the Big Sky Conference voted this week to push back its football season to the spring.

Anthony Brown threw two touchdown passes and ran for another to lead the Eagles to a 35-28 victory over Virginia Tech Saturday in the schools' opener. But winning your opener against a highly-quality football team, I think you get better from that," BC coach Steve Addazio said. "It's tough for our guys to battle back, fight, scratch and claw all the way through and come up short," Virginia Tech coach Justin Fuente said. THE TAKEAWAYVirginia Tech: The Hokies' defense was 106th in the nation against the run last season, allowing 210 yards per game on the ground. Boston College: Brown, a red-shirt junior, looked like the QB the Eagles have been hoping for, at times.