ATLANTA — The Big Ten and the Pac-12 called off their football seasons before they started. The South’s premier college football conferences called a play for time.

Never was it more publicly clear than this week, five months after the N.C.A.A. and its conferences canceled basketball tournaments in response to the coronavirus crisis, that college sports leaders are sharply divided over the prospect of athletic competitions during a pandemic.

By midday on Wednesday, the Atlantic Coast, Big 12 and Southeastern Conferences had all publicly broken with the Big Ten and Pac-12 and reinforced their ambitions to play beginning next month. The Big Ten and the Pac-12 concluded on Tuesday that it was simply too dangerous to try to play sports this fall.

“Reasonable people can disagree on it, and the Pac-12 and the Big …continued .
[Source: New York Times]