July 9, 2026

Ohio State Cancels Spring Game, Restricts Campus Events


Ohio State has cancelled its spring football game and will allow only family members to attend sporting events on campus in a series of moves Wednesday night to comply with expanding COVID-19 precautions across America. OSU made the announcements via email, noting all sporting events on campus will be closed to the public and the April 11 spring football game at Ohio Stadium is cancelled. Earlier Wednesday night, OSU halted spring football recruiting and barred off-campus coaches’ travel and on-campus visits by prospective players for the next six weeks OSU coach Ryan Day made the recruiting announcement via Twitter a few hours after the NCAA and Big Ten announced limited-attendance policies for their respective basketball tournaments. Any football recruits planning to visit OSU through April 20 on either official or unofficial visits will have those plans postponed. Day’s staff will also observe the university’s temporary travel restrictions until that date.…

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