Ohio State voted to keep Big Ten season alive

In a response to the lawsuit filed by 8 Nebraska football players last week, the conference said that the Presidents voted 11-3 to have the Fall season postponed. Ohio State was one of those three votes.

The Big Ten might finally have to give us some transparency as to why the Fall season was canceled. At least we are getting some information as to how the decision was arrived at and who voted for which side. All it took was a lawsuit by some football players.

According to the conference, 11 Presidents voted to postpone the season while 3 voted to keep playing. It had been widely reported before that Iowa and Nebraska had voted against canceling the season, but now we know that Ohio State did as well.

The conference also said that the decisions were made based on multiple medical factors from two groups of experts. They are fighting the assertion that there was just one study that made everyone vote the way that they did, which is one of the things in the lawsuit the Nebraska players allege.

Also in the filing from the Big Ten is the threshold that the vote must hit in order for a decision like this needs to be made. Apparently, it must hit a 60% threshold, and it was well over that. That is why the season has been canceled and moved to the Spring.

The only reason why the Big Ten even gave us this much information is because of the lawsuit filed by 8 Nebraska football players last week. If it wasn’t for legal action, the public never would have known this information. It’s absurd it took this much to get so little information from the conference.

All of this is according to ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg.

Based on the Big Ten releasing this information, all hope of a Fall season seems lost now. It looks like fans need to just turn their attention towards a Spring season because the conference isn’t going to change its mind.