Big 10

The family of Oxford school shooting victim Tate Myre took the field for the coin toss at the Big Ten Championship game on Saturday.

A poll finds that more than half of respondents feel that the Big 10’s return to play is due to President Donald Trump’s urging a college football return.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was quick to spike the ball in celebration when the Big Ten announced the return of fall football at colleges clustered in some of the Midwest battleground states critical to his reelection effort, declaring, “I’m the one who got football back.”

President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the Pac-12 college sports conference to reopen football. “Open up, Pac-12. Get going,” he said.

“We want a governor that’s going to let Michigan play Big 10 football this year,” Trump said, referring to Whitmer.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is reportedly the lone Midwestern governor holding up the start of the Big 10 football season.

At least half of college football seems determined to play this fall. However, the best team on this year’s college gridiron might only hoist a participation trophy at the end of the year.

Columnist Drew Magary took the occasion of his latest San Francisco Chronicle editorial to insist that the crisis caused by the coronavirus is the excuse we need to end college football forever.

The Big 10 will have some company in postponing the 2020 college football season. Shortly after the Big 10 announced their departure, the Pac-12 announced that they too will postpone their season.

Aug. 11 (UPI) — The Big Ten Conference on Tuesday postponed fall sports — including football — for the 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh released a letter on Monday, laying out the reasons why college football should be played this season.

College football players have organized to launch a “We Want To Play” campaign to urge universities not to shut down their 2020 season.

The commissioners of college football’s Power 5 conferences held a meeting on Sunday to determine whether there would in fact be, a 2020 college football season.

The Big Ten Conference announced Thursday it will not play nonconference games in football and several other sports this fall, the most dramatic move yet by a power conference because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The ACC, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, and Pac-12, all canceled their conference tournaments on Thursday.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Dwayne Haskins and Urban Meyer reveled in the victory celebration Saturday night.

The Northwestern Wildcats could win their first Big Ten Championship since 2000, but one woke alum and New York Times writer, finds the team’s winning season to be an ominous and dangerous thing.

The Big Ten West might not be best, but it is getting closer to challenging the East Division’s conference dominance.