Michigan and Ohio State will face each other Oct. 24– the very first time since 1942 that the competitors will not play at the end of the regular season. The Indiana-Purdue game, pitting competitors from opposite divisions, will occur Nov. 21.
Big Ten groups can open preseason training school Friday or earlier, depending upon the date of their very first video game. Ohio State will open camp Thursday.
Commissioner Kevin Warren, in an interview with Big Ten Network, repeated that theres “no assurance” that sports will be played this fall.
” It would be simply speculation for me to sit here today and state that this is the percent possibility I think well have a season,” Warren told BTN. “I anticipate hopefully one day being able to turn around and say that we did whatever we could in the Big Ten to keep our student-athletes healthy and safe.”
The very first and last week of the regular season will feature solely cross-division games. Week 10 (Nov. 7) will include exclusively East Division games other than for Illinois at Rutgers, and Week 11 (Nov. 14) will include solely West Division video games.
The Big Ten likewise revealed medical protocols, including twice-weekly testing for COVID-19. The league will utilize a third-party laboratory to perform centralized screening and “consistency in monitoring and pre-competition testing.”
The Big Ten on July 9 became the first FBS conference to reveal a basic scheduling design, stating that all of its fall sports, including football, would run with a league-only slate. However the league had actually held off on revealing specifics for football as it examined medical details about the coronavirus pandemic.
Maryland revealed Wednesday that it was preparing to begin the season without spectators in attendance, but “it is our hope that we may be able to invite some fans to house video games as the season advances and health conditions permit.”
The football schedule starts as early as the weekend of Sept. 5 with final games slated for Nov. 21 to line up with academic calendars. The Big Ten Football Championship Game stays arranged for Dec. 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium, though it might be moved as late as Dec. 19. pic.twitter.com/vWp3OSifBc— Big Ten Conference (@bigten) August 5, 2020
The Big Ten will play a 10-game, conference-only football schedule that starts Labor Day weekend and consists of ample flexibility, the league revealed Wednesday morning.
Each group has 2 open weeks, and the schedule has four weeks constructed in to reschedule video games, including a league-wide open week on Nov. 28. The design permits opening games on the weekend of Sept. 3-5 to be relocated to Sept. 12, Sept. 19 or Sept. 26 “through strategic sequencing.”
The regular season is set to finish up Nov. 21, and the league national championship is set for Dec. 5 with the ability to move back as late as Dec. 19.
