The Big Ten is now being viewed as most likely having a conference-only season for all fall sports, including football. ESPN reported that this is the most likely outcome on Thursday afternoon.
The goal of the change would be to eliminate some long-distance travel. NBC Sports reported that it would help to ensure that their teams are being tested for coronavirus universally.
The Associated Press reported that Big Ten presidents and athletics directors prefer playing a conference-only schedule. ESPN said in one report that “there is overwhelming support for a 10-game conference-only schedule.”
On Wednesday the Ivy League decided that fall sports, including college football, would not be played at its institutions in 2020.
The Ivy League is the first Division I conference to make such. drastic decision. There have been cancellations in college football’s Division II and Division III.
The Ivy league was also the first conference to cancel its tournament way back on March 10th. After initial blowback for supposedly overreacting, the league saw other conferences quickly follow suit. It set off one of the most alarming chain of events in the history of sports.
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