Football:
For now, there will be football.
The Big 12 athletic directors met late Tuesday following the board of directors meeting.
A revised Big 12 schedule is expected to be released soon, sources told ESPN. Teams will still play their “9-plus-1” schedules, with nine conference games and one nonconference game, but the start of the conference season will be delayed until Sept. 26.
The news comes on the heels of the league’s reportedly being split on the decision of whether to play. Baylor athletic director Mack Rhoades told SicEm365 Radio in Waco, Texas, earlier Tuesday that if the league voted, he expected it to be “really, really close.