Big Ten announced today that there will be conference only games and matches in all fall sports. That means the Badgers vs. Notre Dame game at Lambeau Field on Oct.3rd has been cancelled. 
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Notre Dame still isn't in a conference, right? They may have no games this fall. Though their odds of no games isn't really that different than teams in conferences.
Reality.
On a teleconference with reporters, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said he is no longer "cautiously optimistic" about a football season being held this fall. "I'm very concerned."
— Joey Kaufman (@joeyrkaufman) July 9, 2020
It’s over.
Just admit it.
2020 sucks.
Dang it........I’m saying right now.....they WILL cancel the entire year. Mark my words. 
and damn this virus.
Gonna be a long year or so (I hope it is ONLY a year), a working vaccine a (and everyone taking it) is our only hope. We also need this virus to remain stable and not morphing, a virus that keeps changing would be hard to deal with.
The Fighting Irish belong with the Red Sox, the Yankees, Taylor Swift, and any other property that is artificially relevant because the media wastes so much time telling you how relevant they are. Notre Dame is too chickenshit to join a real conference. Rudy, f....k Rudy, Goddamn that movie for making me root for Notre Dame for three seconds. In real life, people like Rudy are really annoying. No one wants to hang out with the annoying kid who treats Friday practice like it’s World War III. F'UM B U C K Y
@Pikes Peak posted:Gonna be a long year or so (I hope it is ONLY a year), a working vaccine a (and everyone taking it) is our only hope. We also need this virus to remain stable and not morphing, a virus that keeps changing would be hard to deal with.
Yes, as you imply you'll still have to deal with idiot anti-vaxxers. There are actually large numbers of people that believe Bill Gates is going to bankroll vaccine development so he can implant microchips in people's bodies to monitor them.
I haven't followed all the vaccine developments in detail but plan to read up on them more, but I'm guessing the vaccines will use epitopes (the part of the viral protein that your immune system will end up making antibodies to) that are highly conserved and required for viral entry into the cell. That way, if a viral variant emerged that the vaccine no longer protected against, it would simultaneously evolve to a less virulent and/or infectious form. There are some caveats to that as well, but there are people who have spent decades doing this type of thing involved with this. If the politicians stay out of it and let them do their thing, it will be safe and effective when it finally gets rolled out. They can't work any faster than they are right now at this. Best guess is probably January-February next year.
The “October Surprise” IS THE VACCINE!!!!! Yeehaaaa.....tRump will win in Nov, and sports will be back, like the schools being back in business, it’ll be back to normal. 
that's right Goldie....an October Surprise! but....bite your tongue!
We all know that there will be no sports nor school...come on, man! 
Even when we get a vaccine I anticipate the distribution will be a total cluster just as the testing has been, with no federal leadership and every state competing against each other.
@MichiganPacker2 posted:Yes, as you imply you'll still have to deal with idiot anti-vaxxers. There are actually large numbers of people that believe Bill Gates is going to bankroll vaccine development so he can implant microchips in people's bodies to monitor them.
Morons, that is what they are. It's Satan himself that is implanting microchips and he is trying to distract us with the Bill Gates red herring
Kanye on vaccines:
— Francesca Chambers (@fran_chambers) July 8, 2020
“It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralyzed … So when they say the way we’re going to fix Covid is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious. That’s the mark of the beast. They want to put chips inside of us."
https://t.co/3Rup5eNp5D
PAC 12 follows suit. Notre Dame may have nobody to play. Can they make the playoffs with a 0-0 season? They would be undefeated.
.500 is bowl eligible.
Looks more and more like Power 5 conferences will postpone all fall sports including football until spring. B1G presidents have virtually agreed to postpone football altho no official vote took place at a Saturday meeting.
If the colleges cancel or postpone (likely) and if the NFL can hold on and have a season (doubtful) look for NFL games on Saturday afternoon and Prime Time Saturday night.
Yep.
Actually... there’d be a natural void. Now, Saturday night is “lovin’ Blair night “ but I can take a 5 minute break from the Jags/Cleveland game for that. 🥰
Quality of football will be better than Thursdays.
Moving until spring next year would be really interesting especially if you are a top draft prospect. Assuming the draft still happens in late April why would you play?
They then would play a spring season and a fall season....too much?
Way too much.
No way they play 28-30 games in 2021.
I know they are working through this on the fly, but if they play 12-14 games they'll need to start in February to get done by May/June.
So, are they going to play games outdoors in the Upper Midwest in February?
How will the bowl games and the BCS playoffs work? Are you going to have those occur in July and then get right back to practice in August for September games?
Rose Bowl on Memorial Day? I don't see it.
The most logical thing to do would be for both the NFL and college football to adopt a bubble approach. How can you do that in college football? Not easy as these are student athletes. Spring football could be an option but they would need to reduce the schedule to maybe 8-10 games. Perhaps just have each team play their conference opponent and then 2-3 from the other division based on rankings or how they finished last year?
As for the NFL, come hell or high water they will play because teams would still get 2/3 of their revenue through TV and honestly what else do people have to watch? With the NBA likely to not start “next” season until the holiday timeframe the NFL could be all alone and man that would be a ratings bonanza.
That being said, I just can’t see how these teams will stay healthy if they aren’t locked down like the NBA and NHL. Unlike baseball, they can’t just play doubleheader games to make up for missed games.
Sounds like Saturday games would need a waiver because of anti-trust laws.
Badgers ranked #12 in the AP poll.....
Pair this with the Badgers Buckets team winning a fictional NCAA tourney last spring and I can make a case that we do better not playing.
Go Badgers!
Neither team will have lost a game in quite awhile.
Big 10 back around Turkey Day? Stay tuned.
Perfect storm of becoming bored with the pandemic and not giving two shits about your fellow man
We’ll still hate Ohio St.
"three of the top 17 tackles in the country"
Looks like its game on in mid Oct.....any schedule info yet?
Only thing I have heard so far is that it looks like 9 games. 4 home, 4 away, and 1 TBD
@Goalline posted:
If I’m a RB or a QB anywhere in the country, this program is DESTINATION #1.
@"We"-Ka-Bong posted:Perfect storm of becoming bored with the pandemic and not giving two shits about your fellow man
Yes. I think a large portion of the country has just decided that having somewhere between 500 to 1000 people die every day from COVID is something we are willing to put up with.