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The Big Ten announced on August 11th that they were postponing football season. Now, over a month later, it will announce today that the 14 presidents and chancellors in the conference voted to resume the season.
Breaking: Big Ten has unanimously voted to bring football back. Announcement this morning.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 16, 2020
It is expected kick off on October 24th, according to Yahoo Sports; the championship game should be in Indianapolis on December 19th, the day before the College Football Playoff committee is scheduled to select the four teams.
The news that this vote and season structure would happen was first reported by Outkick founder Clay Travis over the weekend. We had an inkling this would happen today when Nebraska president Ted Carter was overheard on a hot mic saying an announcement was imminent.
There were much trials and tribulations to get to where we are today. The Big Ten presidents and chancellors can say whatever they want, but they felt considerable public pressure. From Justin Fields saying they should play to parent protests to a lawsuit from Nebraska players to the threat of litigation from the attorney generals of Ohio and Nebraska to involvement from President Donald Trump, this wasn’t a story that was ever going away for them.
The innovations in rapid, inexpensive Covid-19 testing also play a major role, and give the cover to the Big Ten to reverse their decision in light of scientific advancements.
All in all, the conference arrived at the right decision and it’ll be great to have them back. Congratulations to all of the players, coaches, parents, and fans who refused to back down.
BOILER UPPPPPPPPPPPPP
Choo choo!!
Meanwhile Pritzker remains steadfast against hs sports in ILL. Trump will win Illinois. People in Dupage and Lake counties (who voted Clinton and Obama) are going to jump the other way. Bet on it
Heh…it’s pretty early to be drinking something that strong. Don’t get me wrong as I would love for you to be correct, but no way cook county doesn’t manufacture as many votes as needed after Election Day. That’s the whole purpose of mass mail in push by Dems: To know how many votes are needed.
A good outcome, but academic leadership is made up of bottom-dwellers!
The B10 “leadership” outsmarted themselves by believing they were going to be visionaries – ha. This has always been a naked political stunt and they got caught looking like the fools they are. Football is being played at EVERY level but only B10 schools were going to stay home? Glad this crap is almost over and also happy to hear about ILL. Keeping things shut down unnecessarily is only hurting the public which is the group the freaking elected leaders are supposed to be serving!
Next step is to fire Kevin Warren for blatant political bias that almost ruined B1G. Too bad leftist academics will remain thanks to tenure that protects them.
Truth. The good news is that the leftist higher education business model is failing miserably due to a combination of being over-priced, providing a poor product in many cases, and now Covid. People have woken up to the sham that is leftist academia. Many of these leftists drawing 100k salaries who could otherwise not even run a lemonade stand may soon find themselves out of a job.
In Michigan, the public elects the board of regents/trustees at the state universities. I hope this wakes the people of Michigan up and they remember to flip over that ballot and vote not-democrat for trustee at UofM and MSU. The trustees pick the school president and control the general direction of the school. Never seemed important before but does now.
AMEN!!
Bravo! That louse needs to be chased out!
Disagree. he somehow pulled off the u-turn, despite many powerful presidents being strongly opposed to playing. He couldve been more coherent in his early statements, but once he got his feet under him, he steadily helped move the process forward. In the end, we all get what we wanted anyhow. 9 Big 10 games.
Is this ABUNDANTLY CLEAR, too? Well, good to see that the pride of these stupid college administrators wasn’t going to get in the way of football.
This is such vamazing news. Who would’ve thought that an SEC loving, former Nashville lawyer with the best sports media network on the planet would be the one that started the ball rolling for a return to Big Ten FB….THANK YOU for restoring my hope in humanity…
Desmond Howard cried and wanted Nebraska kicked out for not taking the cancelled season lying down. Neb and OSU drove the season back along with the help out others like outkick, trump and reasonable people.
Hold on there, David…you meant to say “Former Heisman Trophy Winner, Desmond Howard”, didn’tcha? I mean, that shit still carries a lotta weight in the arena of logic and reason.
Dan Patrick reported this morning that the conference wanted to start a week earlier on October 17th, but several unnamed schools pushed back because they “hadn’t practiced in a month”. Are you kidding me? That tells you a lot about some garbage programs being dead weights in the Big 10 while the rest want to play. Ridiculous.
it was Harbaugh pushing back! source- B1G head coaches
New Member, first post- appreciate the Outkick Team’s contribution to the national narrative, including all things Sports! Look forward to Jason and Clay becoming a greater, more prominent voice in the mainstream media. Move over Mickey Mouse!