It's complete lunacy to try to play.
You could not engineer a worse profile w/r/t COVID for a sports team than a college football team. Large roster and staff; high-contact sport (where every play starts with two lines of players
literally lined up face to face three feet apart and breathing in each other's faces); 18-22 year olds, with attendant maturity issues; part of a massive community - a medium sized city, also about two-thirds populated by 18-22 year olds; living in densely packed housing situations; in many cases on an insecure life footing and lacking the werewithal to walk away from the team which provides most of the tangible benefits and upside in their lives; in a sport run by the most powerful figures at their schools, or even in their states, and the television networks, who make hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars off their efforts, and have an incentive to force them to keep playing; and with fan populations who largely ascribe to these teams the responsibility to entertain, represent, and serve as the main cultural and social focus for their states.
There is no way to do this safely, unlike professional sports where teams can bubble and where players have enough clout to get good conditions for a bubble. You cannot herd a bunch of college kids who are at the apex of their school's (their state's!) social pyramid into a dorm and tell them to live like monks.
Recently, two young English footballers, Phil Foden of Manchester City and Mason Greenwood of Manchester United, were called up to the England national side for international duty against the Icelandic side. They were sent home for breaching COVID protocol by inviting women to their hotel room.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/phil-foden-mason-greenwood-girls-iceland-hotel-photo-england-nations-league-b404882.html
these are two guys, college age themselves, at the beginning of their careers but already playing at two of the biggest clubs in the world, making lots of money, invited to play for their country and eventually hopefully play themselves into England's roster for the next World Cup, asked to stay within a well-defined COVID bubble - and they willingly defied it, risked it all, and risked COVID, because they wanted to get a little Icelandic strange on the side. That's one example. There are probably hundreds of others that we don't know about.
Any "solution" for college football players would involve isolation on such a large scale that it would make a mockery of the idea that these guys were "student-athletes." They're cattle. High-status cattle and cattle who might enjoy their lot but cattle nonetheless.
It is going to be a fucking trainwreck. Every college football team will have to stop practice and cancel games at some point. There will be instances of entire campuses being shuttered and unfortunately there may be campuses with thousands of cases and dozens of deaths.
The season will not be completed.