Reports: Big 12 Will Attempt to Play

Conference's presidents set to move forward with revised schedule after meeting Tuesday night, pending approval from athletic directors

The Big 12 is in.

Per a report from SoonerScoop Tuesday evening, the conference's presidents have approved plans to move toward a fall football season.

Sources telling SoonerScoop's @CareyAMurdock and @Eddie_Rado Big 12 presidents will allow conference to move forward toward a season and a revised Big 12 schedule will be released after approval from AD's during tonight's meetings.

— SoonerScoop.com (@SoonerScoop) August 12, 2020

The report was summarily confirmed by Yahoo Sports' Pete Thamel.

Source: The Big 12 Presidents are wrapping up their call. The league is going to continue to pursue playing this season. A schedule, which was already prepared, will be released in the near future. This confirms what our @rivals friends at @SoonerScoop reported.

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) August 12, 2020

Pending that approval from the Big 12's athletic directors, the conference will presumably join the ACC and SEC in playing a drastically modified 2020 season. The Big Ten and Pac-12 both announced postponements of their fall football season earlier today.

SI's Ross Dellenger reported that the conference's decision-makers eventually agreed that the pros of staging a fall football season outweighed the cons.

The decision among Big 12 leaders came down to ramifications of NOT playing a season (player mental health, structure, etc) vs. uncertain risk of playing a season.

"These are tough decisions. I've never seen anything like this."

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) August 12, 2020

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