According to a report from AI’com’s John Talty the Big Ten is going to release an updated 2020 football schedule on Tuesday.
The Big Ten had previously announced the conference would move all fall sports–including football–to a ten-game conference-only schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently Big Ten teams have just nine games on their schedule. There is no word yet on how the conference will adjust the schedule. Expectation is a priority will be placed on division and rivalry games being played early in the season.
The ACC recently did the same as the Big Ten, but eliminated divisions for the season while adding Notre Dame to the conference for one year.
Thus far the PAC-12 and SEC have joined the Big Ten and ACC in eliminating non-conference games. The Big 12 is the only power five conference to not eliminate any potential football opponents.
On Monday afternoon Michigan State’s current week one opponent Northwestern announced they would be shutting down football workouts due to a positive COVID test. MSU’s football team is currently nearing the end of a 14-day quarantine resulting from a small outbreak amongst the team. That quarantine is scheduled to run through August 4.
