- ABC News
- July 13, 2020
The Patriot League will not play sports in the fall, a source confirmed to ESPN. An official announcement is expected on Monday. The New York Post was first to report the news. The source told ESPN that all options, including a spring football season, are on the table for when the conference would resume sports competition. The decision comes on the heels of the Ivy League canceling its fall sports last week. The Big Ten and the Pac 12 conferences both announced last week that they would be playing conference-only schedules this football season. The ACC and SEC have yet to make decisions regarding scheduling. SEC athletic directors are meeting in-person at the conference offices in Birmingham, Alabama, on Monday. Over the weekend, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said that its deadline to reach a decision is late-July but acknowledged that "we are running out of time to correct and get things right." "We put a medical advisory group together in early April with the question,...