WHITFIELD: All right for college football fans today may feel like Christmas. The SEC is finally kicking off today after delaying the start of this season due to the coronavirus. CNN's Andy Scholes is in Baton Rouge home of the defending SEC champs, the LSU tigers. Oh, I bet you people are excited.</s>ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Excited Fredricka. And you know this kick off Saturday is usually a huge party here in Baton Rouge but it is much different this year. There's no tailgating so it's actually, you know, rather quiet out here right now. Now they will be allowing 25,000 fans into Tiger Stadium later today for the opener against Mississippi State. And I walked around campus. I asked some of those fans, you know, how do they feel about coming to a big time sporting event in the middle of a pandemic?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Definitely very different right now. I would -- usually this place is packed at this time. I guess, and one way is kind of nice to bring a kid, you don't have all the crowd to deal with on that because this would be his first game.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It feels sad, but we're going to make the best of it. The 25,000 of us are going to scream really loudly and make you feel like it's 102,000 in the building.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've been teaching school since early August and I'm getting used to wearing a mask all the time. It's hard outside to wear it because it's -- it gets a little hot but thank goodness we have a nice weather today, so hopefully it won't be too bad.</s>SCHOLES: Now, all the teams in the SEC are kicking off play today.
SEC Football Season Kicks Off With Fans At Every Game.