Big Ten To Cancel Ohio State Football?

Bad news for Ohio State fans. The planned Big Ten football season is over before it started.

According to a report in the Detroit Free Press, the Big Ten Conference voted 10 to 2 to cancel the football season. The paper said the Big Ten will make the official announcement on Tuesday. The cancellation is aimed to stop the spread of Coronavirus. The decision is not sitting well with some players.

Last week, the Big Ten released a complete 10-game schedule. The schedule had teams playing only within the conferences. In fact, the season would have started earlier than normal.  Under the revised schedule, Ohio State would have played Michigan on October 24, about a month ahead of their normal post-Thanksgiving date.  The MAC canceled its football season over the weekend.

Many are angrily protesting the decision on social media using the hashtag ##iwantaseason

I Want A Season

Ohio State player Xavier Johnson tweeted, “So we as 18-23 year old men are able to make potentially life-altering decisions such as joining the army, buying a gun, or the joint decision of whether or not we want to keep a child, but we are told whether or not we can play the game we love?

Ohio State running back Master Teague III agreed, “If people went through the hours on hours of physical, mental, and consistent hard work that us athletes go through you’d want to have a season. Let’s have a season.”

The schedule announced last week by the Big Ten consisted of the following match-ups.

Week 1 (Sept. 5) 

Ohio State at Illinois (Thursday, Sept. 3)
Indiana at Wisconsin (Friday, Sept. 4)
Maryland at Iowa
Minnesota at Michigan State
Nebraska at Rutgers
Northwestern at Penn State
Purdue at Michigan

Week 2 (Sept. 12)

Illinois at Nebraska
Iowa at Purdue
Michigan at Minnesota
Wisconsin at Northwestern
Penn State at Indiana
Michigan State at Maryland
Rutgers at Ohio State

Week 3 (Sept. 19)

Illinois at Indiana
Iowa at Minnesota
Wisconsin at Nebraska
Northwestern at Michigan State
Ohio State at Purdue
Rutgers at Maryland
Penn State at Michigan

Week 4 (Sept. 26) 

Purdue at Illinois
Nebraska at Iowa
Minnesota at Wisconsin
Maryland at Northwestern
Indiana at Ohio State
Michigan at Rutgers
Michigan State at Penn State

Week 5 (Oct. 3)

Northwestern at Iowa
Minnesota at Nebraska
Wisconsin at Maryland
Michigan State at Michigan
Penn State at Rutgers

Byes: Illinois, Purdue, Indiana, OSU

Week 6 (Oct. 10) 

Iowa at Illinois
Indiana at Minnesota
Nebraska at Ohio State
Purdue at Wisconsin