The Ivy League has decided that fall sports, including college football, will not be played at its institutions in 2020. The conference made the announcement on Wednesday evening. The press release said “it will not be possible for Ivy League teams to participate.”
The move comes as critics are pushing against schools and athletes playing the 2020 college football season amid the pandemic. Time is running out for the FBS season to start on time, which is leading many to wonder whether it will ultimately be moved a few months into the spring of 2021.
“A decision on the remaining winter and spring sports competition calendar, and on whether fall sport competition would be feasible in the spring, will be determined at a later date,” the Ivy League said in the release
The Ivy League is the first Division I conference to make such. drastic decision. There have been cancellations in college football’s Division II and Division III.
The Ivy league was also the first conference to cancel its tournament way back on March 10th. After initial blowback for supposedly overreacting, the league saw other conferences quickly follow suit. It set off one of the most alarming chain of events in the history of sports.
Whereas some conferences have announced they will not be playing, others have forged ahead and stated the opposite. The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association doubled down with a second press release verifying their intentions and then released a full schedule.
MIAA Has Released a Revised Fall 2020 Schedule
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— Midwest Sports Network (@MWSNsports) July 8, 2020
If football is handled similarly to spring sports at the Division I level, you may want to be aware of the above schedule. It may end up being some of the only sports around on television.
The Ivy League is the most diverse intercollegiate conference in the country with more than 8,000 student-athletes competing each year. Sponsoring conference championships in 33 men’s and women’s sports and averaging more than 35 varsity teams at each school, the Ivy League provides more intercollegiate athletic opportunities per school than any other conference in the country.
All eight Ivy schools are among the top 20 of NCAA Division I schools in number of sports offered for both men and women and enjoy regular competitive success at the highest championship levels of NCAA Division I athletics.
The League’s schools — Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale — share a rich history of success and influence in college athletics, dating back to the origins of intercollegiate competition. Ivy League institutions have won 292 team national championships and 556 individual national championships since intercollegiate competition began.
My take on the NCAA at the D3 level and the pandemic. In NCAA D1 alone, 30 athletic teams have been eliminated in eight weeks. This could be a real chance for D3 to shine#CFB #College #Football #MIAA #NCAA #NCAAD3 #News #NFL #Sports #WhyD3 https://t.co/2bJpQTFd0F
— Gabriel Schray (@schrayguy) June 30, 2020
This article was generated using a press release and information from the Ivy League and the AP. For more news, sports and entertainment, follow the Midwest Sports Network on Twitter @MWSNsports or like the MWSN page on Facebook.
