The Big Ten has voted to cancel the 2020 football season.
The Detroit Free Press reports that the cancellation on Tuesday will be formally announced. It is unclear if any part of the football season will be made in the spring.
Dan Patrick of NBC said on his radio program that the Big Ten universities voted 12-2 to cancel the upcoming football season. Iowa and Nebraska voted against canceling the season.
The remaining four power-five conferences in the NCAA – the SEC, ACC, Pac-12 and Big 12 – have not made any announcements about the status of their 2020 football season.
Many college footballers have expressed their opinions about wanting to play the 2020 season, with many of them tweeting with the #WeWantToPlay hashtag on Twitter TWTR,
President Donald Trump has called for college football to play the season too.
Football coach Jim Harbaugh of the University of Michigan issued a statement in the wake of reports saying he thinks the conference should play the 2020 season. Michigan is part of the Big Ten Conference.
The news comes after the cancellation of the fall 2020 championships for both Division II and Division III.
The NCAA Board of Governors on Wednesday directed each division of the NCAA to independently decide by August 21 whether it can hold secure championships in bankruptcy sports such as football, volleyball and lower-level football during the pandemic.
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If more college football conferences decide to cancel the 2020 season, gaming stocks could take a hit. Football, which includes both college and professional football, is by far the most bet on sports in the U.S., according to a 2017 Statista survey.
Acts with sports gambling fell during Monday’s trading. Draftkings Inc. DKNG,
dropped to 10% and Penn National Gaming Inc. PENN,
fell as much as 9.7%. William Hill PLC WIMHY,
fell too.
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