June 23, 2026

Buckeyes won't pursue playing outside Big Ten, look to spring

Ohio State received the worst possible news on Tuesday afternoon. The Big Ten announced the cancellation of the 2020 college football season due to the COVID-19 pandemic just days after the conference released a schedule that was supposed to allow teams to play this fall. “One of the things we promised ourselves was this was going to be fluid, day to day situation and we’d be on a perpetual state of observing and gathering information,” Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren said after the announcement. “The over-arching reason and the over-arching issue we had to always keep at the top of our mind was the health, safety and wellness of our student-athletes was at the top of my list. “Cases are spiking. Deaths, not only in our country but our states where our schools are located. All the decisions we make during my tenure here in the Big Ten will always…

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