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Peak Perspective: How does the Big Ten’s conference-only decision for fall athletics impact the Mountain West?

The landscape for college athletics for the 2020-21 academic year is going to be drastically different from past years.

The Big Ten conference elected to eliminate non-conference play for all of its fall sports Thursday, according to Nicole Auerbach of The Athletic.

The Big Ten is expected to announce today that it will go with a conference-only football schedule for this fall, a person with direct knowledge situation tells @TheAthleticCFB.

— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) July 9, 2020

This means that 36 out-of-conference football games — including Air Force vs.