College football:

Pac-12, Big Ten conferences reportedly will postpone 2020 football season until spring 2021.

The Pac12 and Big Ten conferences are expected to postpone football season until the spring, TMZ Sports reported Friday.

Some Pac12 staffs have been informed of the decision, per the report. An official announcement is expected Tuesday. According to a Pac12 source, league staffers had been told in recent days that whatever the conference did would align with the Big Ten’s plans.

That same source said that the Pac12 CEO group, comprised of one chancellor or president from each of the conference’s 12 universities, will meet Tuesday. The official vote on the season will come at that meeting, but many throughout the league are already proceeding as if the fall season will be pushed to the spring.

Monday’s news came after the leaders of college football’s Power 5 conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and Pac12) held an emergency meeting over the weekend to weigh their options. As ESPN reported, conference officials left the meeting believing that a fall 2020 season was unlikely.

A group of Pac12 players recently wrote a letter to the conference, threatening to opt out of preseason camp and games unless the league meet demands regarding safety, as well as the handling of social and economic issues during the coronavirus pandemic. Players from the group asked Pac12 Commissioner Larry Scott during a call Thursday to have legal representation in future meetings.

Scott told them, per a source, that players would have to communicate with the league’s lawyers if they decided to bring representation. That came six weeks after

Pac12 teams started clearing players to return to campus for voluntary outdoor workouts.

Among the programs affected by the postponement are Cal and Stanford. The Bears are coming off an 85 record and a win in the Redbox Bowl, and the Cardinal are trying to rebound from a 48 season — their worst in 13 years.