Ohio State will be out for football this fall, chief executive Gene Smith said Wednesday night.
Early Wednesday, in a conference call with reporters, OSU coach Ryan Day presented the game concept in all likelihood at other Big Ten schools that would have wanted to postpone the 2020 season of the convention’s cancellation on Tuesday.
Jim Harbaugh of Michigan, Scott Frost of Nebraska and James Franklin of Penn State were among the coaches who expressed sadness at the Big Ten decision.
“It’s a fluid situation,” Day said Wednesday afternoon. “We’re exploring all those options.”
But hours later, Smith sprayed it after consulting the Big Ten.
“The state of Ohio continued its communications with the Big Ten Conference regarding an autumn football game situation still betting,” Smith said in a statement, “but now we’ve decided that this would not be a permissible opportunity for us We are 100 percent focused on supporting the health, protection and good educational fortune of our student-athletes and running with the Big Ten to expand a spring plan for our sports temporarily possible.
Day said he wanted a “spring” season to begin in early January to provide enough of a gap between that and the regular 2021 season.