Oklahoma football coach Lincoln Riley announced on Saturday that nine players on the team tested positive for COVID-19.
The positive results were from tests conducted Saturday after the team took some days off of practice. Riley told reporters that 75 percent of the team remained in Norman during the break and classified the cases as “community-based infections.”
The outbreak arrives as the Big 12 plans to move forward with its season this fall. Riley touted Oklahoma’s football activities as taking place in a “very very safe environment” and attributed the outbreak to players being away from facilities.