For ACC campuses, replicating pro-sports bubbles a challenge
FILE - North Carolina State head coach Dave Doeren watches his team warm up prior to the start of an NCAA college football game against Ball State in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019. Doeren said the team had three positive coronavirus tests over 2½ months before students returned. Clusters followed and the school soon paused all athletics activities, including football practices for about a week before postponing this weekend's game at Virginia Tech to Sept. 26. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker, File)

FILE - North Carolina State head coach Dave Doeren watches his team warm up prior to the start of an NCAA college football game against Ball State in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019. Doeren said the team had three positive coronavirus tests over 2½ months before students returned. Clusters followed and the school soon paused all athletics activities, including football practices for about a week before postponing this weekend's game at Virginia Tech to Sept. 26. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker, File)

Sep. 09, 2020 03:08 PM EDT
FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2018, file photo, Clemson defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence stretches during team practice at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Galloway is seeing shorter lines at fast-food restaurants and fewer people around campus after Clemson started the fall semester with online-only undergraduate classes amid the coronavirus pandemic. Welcome to some Atlantic Coast Conference schools' version of campus bubbles — fewer people, reduced interactions — in an attempt to minimize outbreaks while resuming classes and launching a football season that looked in doubt much of the summer. (AP Photo/Jim Cowsert, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2018, file photo, Clemson defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence stretches during team practice at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Galloway is seeing shorter lines at fast-food restaurants and fewer people around campus after Clemson started the fall semester with online-only undergraduate classes amid the coronavirus pandemic. Welcome to some Atlantic Coast Conference schools' version of campus bubbles — fewer people, reduced interactions — in an attempt to minimize outbreaks while resuming classes and launching a football season that looked in doubt much of the summer. (AP Photo/Jim Cowsert, File)

Sep. 09, 2020 02:58 PM EDT
FILE - Clemson tight end Braden Galloway runs against LSU during the first half of the NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, in New Orleans. Galloway is seeing shorter lines at fast-food restaurants and fewer people around campus after Clemson started the fall semester with online-only undergraduate classes amid the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

FILE - Clemson tight end Braden Galloway runs against LSU during the first half of the NCAA College Football Playoff national championship game Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, in New Orleans. Galloway is seeing shorter lines at fast-food restaurants and fewer people around campus after Clemson started the fall semester with online-only undergraduate classes amid the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Sep. 09, 2020 02:54 PM EDT
FILE - North Carolina head coach Mack Brown talks to linebacker Chazz Surratt (21) and defensive lineman Aaron Crawford (92) as they play South Carolina in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. With ACC football teams set to begin play this week, some league schools have tried to reduce campus population density through remote instruction to minimize interactions in classrooms and elsewhere. “I think it was outside the classroom where students had gotten in trouble,” Tar Heels coach Mack Brown said. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)

FILE - North Carolina head coach Mack Brown talks to linebacker Chazz Surratt (21) and defensive lineman Aaron Crawford (92) as they play South Carolina in the first half of an NCAA college football game in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. With ACC football teams set to begin play this week, some league schools have tried to reduce campus population density through remote instruction to minimize interactions in classrooms and elsewhere. “I think it was outside the classroom where students had gotten in trouble,” Tar Heels coach Mack Brown said. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)

Sep. 09, 2020 03:11 PM EDT