On Wednesday morning, the Big Ten Conference announced their new, conference-only schedule on Big Ten Network. Every conference in the country has been scrambling to make their schedules more compact due to the global pandemic that the country is still in the throes of.
The B1G season will now start on September 5th, each team will have three bye weeks (with one league-wide one at the end of November) and the season will end in Indianapolis for the B1G Title game on December 5th.
Per a B1G press release, however: “[the] schedule is constructed in a way that allows season to start as early as the weekend of Sept.