The Rose Bowl's annual Pac-12/Big Ten Match-up is in jeopardy this season.
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The 2019-2020 College Football season will no longer include the Pac-12 and the Big Ten from August to December.
Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said, "As time progressed and after hours of discussion with our Big Ten Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee, it became abundantly clear that there was too much uncertainty regarding potential medical risks to allow our student-athletes to compete this fall."
On the west coast after Pac-12 football players started the #WeAreUnited movement in an effort to improve the conditions, health and financial situations for the conference during these uncertain times for college athletics, the athletes responded to the decision.
"It is obvious that the Pac-12 was woefully unprepared to protect college athlete safety in response to COVID-19 and could not address the basic and essential safety demands made by #WeAreUnited," the statement read.
They went on to say, "After haphazardly trying to place the health of college athletics in jeopardy by having a season without safety mandates, the Pac-12 has now abruptly canceled the season with no transfarance and no communication with the college athletes impacted. The Pac-12's failures have made it clear that the time for change is now. The system is broken. College athletes deserve and need a real voice in the form of a players association."
The Big 12 announced that they intend to play this fall. The SEC and ACC are yet to declare their intentions surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.
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