On Wednesday morning, bombshell news took over the college football world.
After becoming the second conference after the MAC to cancel the fall season due to COVID-19 concerns on August 11, the Big Ten unanimously voted to resume football activities in October, while promising to take enhanced precautionary measures.
The conference kicks off October 23-24, adopting “significant medical protocols including daily antigen testing, enhanced cardiac screening and an enhanced data-driven approach when making decisions about practice/competition,” per the Big Ten website.
The reversal was stunning for a number of reasons; the Big Ten was the first Power Five conference to announce their intention to play in the spring, helping to spur along the conversation the MAC started about playing amidst a pandemic.