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So... I'm going through the stages of grief  and I've kinda got them jumbled up. But I've been in denial since the announcement came out, and now I'm just depressed. No Buckeye football this year sucks.

Not to get political but a quote from Trump. "It's a tragic Mistake to cancel Football. Of the target age group 20-29 year old, only 5 out of 100,000 need hospitalization." I found myself agreeing with this person I don't like.

Or you could look at CDC data: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6924e2-H.pdf

3.7% in that age group who have a confirmed case of COVID need hospitalization. That's 3700 out of 100,000.
0.9% in that age group who have a confirmed case of COVID need ICU admission. That's 900 out of 100,000.
0.1% in that age group who have a confirmed case of COVID die. That's 100 out of 100,000.

Even if you assume a 10x difference between actual infections and confirmed infections (which wouldn't be the case in a football team population where they're being tested multiple times a week as a precaution), you can't get to 5 out of 100K. At best you could get to 10 out of 100K dying.

That guy is probably referring to maybe 5 out of 100,000 in that entire population have needed hospitalization so far regardless of whether they have COVID or not, or potentially [it's happened before] just pulling a statistic out of thin air.

Interesting data.  So by those numbers, if you figure 14 teams times an 85 man roster, we can expect roughly 120 of these players to die if they play?? 

does anybody here believe that? Do you believe that?  My guess is pretty much nobody does.
but why is that?

when you look at those CDC stats does it take into account how many of the people had pre-existing conditions or were susceptible to the virus? And subsequently how many of the Big Ten athletes would fall into that category versus be considered extremely healthy?

14x85 is 1190. Multiplied by a 0.1% death rate in 20-29 age group that's 1.19 deaths, or 1 out of the entire population, not 120. Not sure where you got 120?

And that's across the entire population, so it doesn't account for comorbid conditions. THAT SAID, if you'd clicked the link they also break out the percentages for people with comorbid conditions, where the numbers are much higher. If you take out comorbid conditions, the numbers drop to 2.7% hospitalized, 0.3% ICU, and it still says 0.1% death but that's probably rounding up. I would say that linemen would probably be considered to have comorbid conditions, because although they're in good health, they are clinically obese.

If you assume every one of those players is considered healthy with no comorbid conditions, and that over the course of the season every B1G player contracts COVID, you'd look at 1190x0.027, or 32 players requiring hospitalization.

Do you think the B1G would accept that number? Half that number?

Every one of those 1190 players has more control over their potential infection risk off the field than on it.

On the field you simply have ZERO protection against infection. It's a contact sport. You're in close proximity to others on nearly every play. There are collisions. As I've said in other threads, a single linemen who is asymptomatic and contagious could be a superspreader considering the close contact to his teammates and his opponents (rotating through) on every play.

Now, some may argue that college students, being college students, will be dumb and reckless and won't be careful about their exposure off the field. They may not wear masks, may not social distance, may not do anything to protect themselves. I can't argue that; but that's their decision, not an inherent risk in being off the field. Inherent in being on the field is a complete inability to play the game while protecting yourself.