COLUMBUS, Ohio — The episode began, as national conversations often do in 2020, with President Donald Trump pushing the “Tweet” button on Tuesday morning. The president’s announcement that he had spoken with Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren about “immediately starting” football sparked a day of follow-up reporting, analysis and speculation. The Big Ten acknowledged the conversation but made no change to its public messaging about seeking an eventual safe return to the field during the coronavirus pandemic. Reports began to drop that the Big Ten was considering a restart as early as Oct. 10. That would essentially mean teams would need to begin preseason camp almost immediately to get in their typical four weeks. All day, however, sources inside the league poured cold water on those rumors. Nebraska athletic director Bill Moos — who serves on the Big Ten’s football scheduling subcommittee — dismissed those October dates in texts to…
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