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BREAKING: Big Ten postpones 2020 fall sports season to the spring

The news we’ve all been dreading is finally here.

The Big Ten conference announced Tuesday it will postpone the fall sports to the spring season due to the coronavirus pandemic, less than a week after the conference released its updated league-only schedule for the 2020 football season.

While it is still uncertain whether a college football season will be played at all during the 2020-2021 academic year due to the ongoing effects of the virus, Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren reportedly preferred the idea of a spring football season before the conference first met on Saturday.