It’s official: The Big Ten and Pac-12 will not have fall football this season. Both conferences announced their decisions to cancel all fall sports on Tuesday, August 11, as schools try and figure out how to make everything work as the coronavirus pandemic continues to run rampant.
The Big Ten, amid rumors that had been spreading around the cancelation, was also the first to cancel all non-conference play for the season. The Mountain West and Mid-American Conferences have already canceled their seasons, as have UConn, ODU, and James Madison.
“The mental and physical health and welfare of our student-athletes has been at the center of every decision we have made regarding the ability to proceed forward,” Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said in the conference’s official announcement.