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Big Ten officially postpones 2020 fall season

Just as the football season was starting to get off the ground, the sport has been brought to a screeching halt.

The Big Ten announced Tuesday that it has postponed all sports competition for this fall over concerns surrounding COVID-19, becoming the first major Power Five conference to do so. The league said it is going to attempt to play a spring football season.

“The mental and physical health and welfare of our student-athletes has been at the center of every decision we have made regarding the ability to proceed forward,” Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said in a release.