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First Power 5 Dominoes Fall as Big Ten, Pac-12 Pull Plug on Fall Season

In the biggest development of a dramatic week that will help define this unprecedented college football season, two major conferences opted out of fall football Tuesday.

The Big Ten and Pac-12 took their expected steps to postpone fall sports Tuesday, with sources confirming the latter's decision to to Sports Illustrated. Both are aiming for the spring but offering no guarantees they would play then. Now all eyes turn to the Big 12, which multiple sources told Sports Illustrated will hold the key to whether anyone at the Football Bowl Subdivision will play America’s most popular sport in 2020.