The Big Ten’s summer has been filled with protesting parents, phantom voting controversies and a conference office that’s struggled to message its actions. There have been angry coaches, outspoken presidents and the looming specter of White House involvement.
As the Big Ten coaches and teams watched from home on the first full Saturday of a college football season, the dark weeks for the conference were finally given a ray of hope.
In the next 48 hours, we should know whether or not the Big Ten is able to salvage a conventional football season in 2020. What once seemed to be both a Hail Mary pass and a message board fever dream has somehow transformed to something within the realm of reality.