The final episode of the Big Ten football soap opera, it appears, will take place Tuesday night.
Exactly five weeks after postponing the fall season, the conference is poised to announce a restart. Or, far less likely, to declare that no football will be played in 2020.
KETV NewsWatch 7 in Omaha reported Nebraska President Ted Carter was caught on a hot mic Tuesday morning saying, “We’re getting ready to announce the Huskers and Big Ten football tonight.”
Asked to clarify by a local TV reporter, Carter said: “I think that was picked up a little out of context.