COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Big Ten, Pac-12 pull plug on fall amid pandemic

Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren speaks about the cancellation of the men's basketball tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on March 12. (CHRIS SWEDA/ Chicago Tribune/TNS)
Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren speaks about the cancellation of the men's basketball tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on March 12. (CHRIS SWEDA/ Chicago Tribune/TNS)

A crumbling college football season took a massive hit Tuesday as the Big Ten and Pac-12, two historic and powerful conferences, succumbed to the pandemic and canceled their fall football seasons.

Five…