In case you missed it, the Big Ten released the complete — albeit flexible and tentative — 2020 football schedule for this fall. It’s a step in the right direction for planning on playing during the COVID-19 pandemic, but there’s still a lot of work to do.
Part of that is coming up with medical protocols that involve, testing, contract tracing, quarantining, and more.
To that end, the conference also released its medical protocols to navigate the chance at playing sports in the fall while also keeping student-athletes healthy and safe.
Here are some of the highlights of those protocols. It’s a lot of information, but we’ve attached the complete protocols that will be used if and when fall sports get off the ground.