Nearly 20,000 Big Ten students, alumni and fans across the country donated blood as part of the Abbott-Big Ten nationwide competition this college football season, helping save as many as 60,000 livesNebraska's win was announced at the Discover Big Ten Football Championship Game where the university received $1 million from global healthcare company Abbott to advance student and community healthThe competition, which will be back next fall, aims to help combat the greatest need for blood in a generation, while also helping create new lifelong blood donors

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