The Pac-12 announced Friday that it will play a conference-only schedule in fall 2020 for several of its sports.

The Pac-12 announced Friday that it will play a conference-only schedule in fall 2020 for several sports, including football, men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball.

The conference’s decision comes one day after the Big Ten announced it would schedule conference-only play this fall. 

“The health and safety of our student-athletes and all those connected to Pac-12 sports continues to be our number one priority,” Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said in a 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.”

The move stems from the spiking coronavirus cases in six states