The Pacific-12 Conference has eliminated non-league football games for the upcoming season, marking the latest sports casualty of the raging coronavirus pandemic.
The San Francisco-based group, which includes elite academic institutions such as the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University,its football, men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball teams would play only conference opponents this autumn.
“The health and safety of our student-athletes and all those connected to Pac-12 sports continues to be our number one priority,” league Commissioner Larry Scott said in a prepared statement. “Our decisions have and will be guided by science and data, and based upon the trends and indicators over the past days, it has become clear that we need to provide ourselves with maximum flexibility to schedule, and to delay any movement to the next phase of return-to-play activities.”
Other Pac-12 schools include UCLA, the Universities of Southern California, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Colorado and Arizona State, Washington State and Oregon State Universities.Sign Up
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