Big Ten football is coming back with 8 games in 8 weeks
by Teddy Greenstein, Chicago Tribune
Sep 16, 2020
3 minutes
CHICAGO - For a while there, it looked as if Big Ten football would produce only one score this fall: 11-3.
As in, 11 schools voted to postpone fall sports and three (Ohio State, Nebraska and Iowa) dissented.
But after weeks of criticism and cajoling from the likes of Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields, Iowa football parents, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and President Donald Trump, the Big Ten crossed the 1-yard line - as Trump alluded to in a tweet.
The conference announced its restart Wednesday,
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