Rutgers, Big 10 To Cancel 2020 Football Season: Report

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — The Big 10 conference, of which Rutgers is a part, is canceling the fall 2020 football season, according to the Dan Patrick show. The Dan Patrick show is a daily nationally syndicated sports talk radio program, and Patrick made the announcement Monday morning.

Rutgers did not immediately confirm the news. However, the Big Ten is supposed to announce Tuesday that it will be canceling the fall season, according to the Detroit Free Press.

On his radio show Monday morning, Patrick said that the 14 college presidents in the Big 10 (there are 14 universities in the conference) voted 12-2 to cancel the season. The only two schools who wanted to still have the season were the universities of Nebraska and Iowa, according to the report.

That means Rutgers would have cast a vote to cancel the season. Nothing official has been confirmed by the school.

However, Rutgers did announce on July 25 that was quarantining its football team because 10 players had tested positive for the coronavirus. Since returning to campus June 15, four players tested positive, and six additional players tested positive over the July 25/26 weekend.

The Ivy League and Mid-American Conference canceled the 2020 football season earlier this year.

Like all schools in the Big 10, Rutgers football players had returned to campus in mid June to practice. Many Big 10 football players were tweeting that they wanted the 2020 season to begin as normally scheduled:

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