Chris Fowler said it would be “impossible” for there to be a normal college football season as the country continues to flatten the curve due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The ESPN analyst, however, does believe there will be a season in the 2020-2021 academic season.

In an Instagram video in which he cites “informed speculation,” Fowler lays out a couple of scenarios that could play out after talking with people he said were planning - not deciding - college football’s course of action.

“The first scenario is the season starts on time and the season isn’t altered much,” Fowler said. “Time is running out, though, unless you think 4-6 weeks is a whole lot of time. Because I’m told by the end of May, there has to be clarity and if you are going to have college campuses open, which you will have to bring the players back, that’s about the deadline to get things going on time.”

This seems unrealistic at this point.

Still, other scenarios could see a delayed start to the season.

“Scenario 2, the season starts late and maybe gets shortened a bit,” Fowler said. “Maybe you get going in November and you go through January and have to reshuffle the Playoff. To me, that sounds problematic. People are worried about a second wave of this virus coming back when the temperatures up north turn colder. You want to start a season then have to shut it down? To me, that would be disastrous.”

So, the scenario that makes sense to Fowler is moving the college football season completely.

“There is a third scenario that’s gaining momentum, which may sound preposterous on the surface but I think a lot of reasonable people feel like it might be the most prudent course of action, and that is football in the spring,” Fowler added. “Beginning some point in February, getting into March, April, May, maybe have the postseason in June. That would have to be reshuffled a bit, it would be bizarre, it would wreak havoc on some other sports in that time of year, but to avoid the financial disaster of having no football in the academic year, I think it might be a fallback position.”

Check out the video below:

The start of the college football season has been a hotly debated topic. ESPN “GameDay” analyst Kirk Herbstreit took some heat for suggesting there would be no college football season because of COVID-19. The blow back was so bad SEC Network analyst Paul Finebaum defended Herbstreit.

A spring season would certainly be unique. Then again, these are unique times.

Mark Heim is a sports reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim.