{"id":211307,"date":"2020-10-28T10:43:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T15:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=211307"},"modified":"2020-10-28T10:43:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T15:43:12","slug":"wisconsin-at-nebraska-football-canceled-oct-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=211307","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin at Nebraska football Canceled, Oct. 31"},"content":{"rendered":"

(CBS Sports)\u00a0 No. 9 Wisconsin<\/a> has paused all team-related activities for at least seven days due to an elevated number of COVID-19 cases within the program. As a result, the Oct. 31 game at Nebraska<\/a> has been canceled and will not be made up, Wisconsin announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A release from the university states that a total of 12 people within the program had tested positive for COVID-19 in the past five days. Among them are six student-athletes and six staff members, including head coach Paul Chryst.<\/p>\n

“This morning I received the news that I had tested positive via a PCR test I took yesterday,” Chryst said in a statement. “I informed my staff and the team this morning and am currently isolating at home. I had not been experiencing any symptoms and feel good as of this morning.<\/p>\n

“I am disappointed for our players and coaching staff who put so much into preparing to play each week,” Chryst continued. “But the safety of everyone in our program has to be our top priority and I support the decision made to pause our team activities.”<\/p>\n

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Chryst is the ninth FBS head coach to have tested positive for the virus. That number does not include Alabama coach Nick Saban, who had a false positive earlier in October.<\/p>\n

CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd reported earlier in the week that Badgers starting quarterback Graham Mertz<\/a> had\u00a0tested positive<\/a> for the virus. Per Big Ten protocols, Mertz will be required to sit out for three weeks before he is able to return to play. Wisconsin does not release specific information about players who have tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n

“We have said from the beginning that the health and safety of our student-athletes, coaches and staff members comes first,” athletic director Barry Alvarez said. “Over the past several days we have seen a rising number of student-athletes and staff contract the virus. The responsible thing for us to do is to pause football-related activities for at least seven days.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(CBS Sports)\u00a0 No. 9 Wisconsin has paused all team-related activities for at least seven days due to an elevated number of COVID-19 cases within the program. As a result, the Oct. 31 game at Nebraska has been canceled and will not be made up, Wisconsin announced on Wednesday. A release […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211312,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211307\/revisions\/211312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}