Big Ten athletic directors will decide in a phone conference Wednesday morning whether or not this weekend’s football games will continue as scheduled, said Sue Lister, the Big Ten Conference associate commissioner.

The NCAA said conferences and schools have the authority to determine whether to play college football games this weekend, as well as hold other events following the terrorist attack on New York and Washington, D.C Tuesday morning.

The governing body said it will assist college presidents and conference commissioners in making decisions.

“The games themselves are insignificant in the face of what has happened today,” NCAA president Cedric Dempsey said.

The upcoming games include Illinois vs. Louisville, Indiana vs. Kentucky, Iowa at Iowa State, Michigan vs. Western Michigan, MSU vs. Missouri, Minnesota vs. Baylor, Northwestern vs. Navy, Ohio State vs. San Diego State, Purdue vs. Notre Dame and Wisconsin vs. Western Kentucky.

The Penn State vs. Virginia game scheduled for Thursday has been postponed.

Lister said officials will take many factors into consideration before a decision is made, such as public safety, transporting teams during the air-traffic ban and respecting those involved with the tragedy.

“Right now, we haven’t issued a blanket cancellation,” Lister said. “We expect to have more details around early afternoon.”

Associate athletics director John Lewandowski said MSU officials haven’t reached a conclusions yet and also expected news early today.

“Right now everything is up in the air,” he said. “There has been lots of discussion but no decision.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.