Report: A Big Ten Decision Will Be Made Tonight, Football Will Return
I know, I know...we've been hearing this for several days now but apparently it's really coming this time.
Per KETV in Omaha, University of Nebraska President Ted Carter was making small talk before a news conference and was overheard on a hot mic saying, “We’re getting ready to announce Huskers and Big Ten football tonight.”
Everyone in the media has been reporting on this ad nauseam with sources and reports from various people not actually involved in the process. This direct quote from someone definitely in the know seems to indicate that football is really on the way this time.
If the Big Ten does indeed announce tonight that football will be played this fall, they'll have to get it going pretty quickly in order to finish on time for the College Football Playoff. Our own Steve Deace recently took a stab at how the schedule could and should look.
If I were the Big Ten, I’d start an 8-game schedule with two byes on Oct 10, with a conference title game Dec 19. Teams that aren’t ready yet, like Wisconsin and Maryland, have their first bye week 1. That gives you 10 weeks to play 8 games, so there's wiggle room and in time for playoff.
If I had to guess, this will be Michigan’s 2020 schedule:
10/17: at Minnesota
10/24: Wisconsin
10/31: Penn State
11/7: at Rutgers
11/14: Michigan State
11/21: at Indiana
11/28: Maryland
12/5: at Ohio State
12/12: bye/makeup date
If it ends up playing out this way, we're one month away from Big Ten football. It's been a long, annoying, tiring and indecisive road, but we'd all be just fine with that if we're watching Michigan and the rest of the Big Ten in 30 days.
