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Big Ten and Pac-12 decide to postpone 2020 football season

The Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences have decided to postpone the college football season this fall as well as all other fall sports, a decision likely to have a similar impact for all collegiate sports this year.

A vote from the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences result in the postponement of college football and other fall sports.

Each league hopes to move back playing into the spring.

“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,’ Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said to CNN.

“Everyone associated with the Big Ten Conference and its member institutions is committed to getting everyone back to competition as soon as it is safe to do so,” Warren said.

The announcement from Pac-12 said competition won’t resume until next year, meaning its basketball teams and other winter sports programs won’t play until 2021, reports CNN.