THIS WEEKEND’S RACES

At Atlanta Motor Speedway (no spectators)

Trucks Series, Vet Tix Camping World 200, 1 p.m., FS1 Xfinity Series, EchoPark 250, 4:30 p.m., Fox

NASCAR Cup Series , Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, 3 p.m., Fox

ATHENS — Count the Georgia Bulldogs among the Power Five programs that are confident there not only will be a full college football season this year, but fans in the stands to watch it.

While tempering their comments with caveats regarding impossible-to-know future developments with the coronavirus pandemic, UGA President Jere Morehead and Athletic Director Greg McGarity spoke optimistically about a close-to-normal college football season.

“Right now, our plan is to move forward and start the season on time and to have a full season,” Morehead said in a question-and-answer session with reporters following Thursday’s meeting of the Georgia athletics board. “I can’t predict events that would change that plan, but that’s the approach that the is operating under.”

Morehead said the goal is for stadiums to be as full as they can get them.

“Personally, I’m hoping that we don’t have to put any restrictions on at Sanford Stadium,” Morehead said of the Bulldogs’ 92,746-seat facility. “But I have no idea what the public-health experts are going to be telling us at that point. If they say we have to have social distancing or you have to wear masks, then we’ll approach things as we’re advised to do so.”

UGA’s revenue stream obviously will be smaller if there are crowd-size restrictions. Georgia reported Thursday it already has sold more than 56,000 season tickets, a school record after expanding the number available after last season.

But the budget approved by the athletic association’s board Thursday indicates UGA is expecting financial repercussions from the pandemic. The $149.4 million represents a decrease of more than $4 million from the current fiscal year, which concludes at the end of this month.

Meanwhile, the athletic department has internal models that it hasn’t shared publicly of budgets altered to reflect reduced spectator capacity for football and other sports.

“It’s all dependent on the definition of mass gatherings,” McGarity said. “So, if it’s 50 percent occupancy or 25 percent or everybody can come, you know, we just don’t know. We’ll know more at the end of this month. We’ll know a lot more by Aug. 1. At some point in time we have to know and be very clear in com