UNC coach confident there’ll be season

North Carolina coach Mack Brown said he remains confident the Tar Heels will play football this season after the school shut down in-person undergraduate classes Monday because of coronavirus clusters at the school.

♦ LSU coach Ed Orgeron said the defending national champion Tigers have ‘‘two or three guys that are out’’ because of positive COVID-19 tests, but he didn’t identify them.

♦ Michigan junior offensive tackle Jalen Mayfield said on Twitter that he will enter the NFL Draft next spring after the Big Ten postponed its season because of the coronavirus.