BLOOMINGTON – There will be no Big Ten football this fall.
The conference’s presidents voted to postpone the 2020 fall sports calendar, including its lucrative and popular football season, according to a report from the Detroit Free Press. There is hope the season could be pushed to the spring.
The Big Ten’s decision makes the powerhouse conference — rivaled in political power in college sports only by the SEC — the first Power Five league to cancel its fall football season, a move that will have far-reaching, long-lasting financial and cultural impacts. According to reporting from various national outlets, other Power Five conferences could follow the Big Ten’s lead in the coming days.