Big Ten becomes first major college football conference to cancel fall season
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“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 a statement. “As time progressed and after hours of discussion with our Big Ten Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee, it became abundantly clear that there was too much uncertainty regarding potential medical risks to allow our student-athletes to compete this fall.”
With the Big Ten’s decision, 41 of the 130 FBS schools have either said they will not play this fall or are in conferences that have made that decision.
… university presidents, who leaned on medical professionals for advice, ultimately made this decision. And for those Big Ten leaders, the risks of a virus that the country has yet to contain were enough to topple the season.
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