Don’t Fumble Your Opportunity to Save Lives and Win Your Big Ten School $1 Million
Football season and “The We Give Blood Drive” competition are headed down the final stretch, but it’s never too late for a comeback story. Help your Big Ten school finish strong in the conference-wide contest to save lives and sign up to donate blood before the race ends on Dec. 6.
After all, friendly competition in football never hurts — let's translate that to “The We Give Blood Drive.”
Will USC let southern California rival UCLA take the football “W” this weekend at Rose Bowl Stadium and the higher ranking on “The #WeGiveBlood Drive” leaderboard?
Fans who bleed red (we’re looking at you, Ohio State, Indiana, Wisconsin and Nebraska) are also facing off against one another this weekend. Watch whether Indiana will keep its momentum up against Ohio State. And stay tuned to find out if Nebraska, who currently ranks No. 1 on “The We Give Blood Drive” standings, can also beat No. 2 Wisconsin on the football field.
While you check your game schedules, don’t forget to pencil in time for donating blood, too, and submit your donation to earn a point for your school.
Plus, when you post your experience and support for the blood drive on social media using #WeGiveBlood, you’ll also have a chance to be featured on our channels and maybe even receive some swag.
Are You Eligible to Donate Blood Twice? Go For Two!
If you’re one of the 11,000-plus who has given blood in “The We Give Blood Drive” …
That’s right: Just like football teams choose to go for two after scoring a touchdown, eligible blood donors might be able to go for a second donation before our competition ends next month.
It’s possible to donate blood up to six times a year. Red blood cells can return to normal levels approximately two weeks after donation.1 So, if you donated around the time Abbott and the Big Ten conference launched “The We Give Blood Drive,” on Sept. 26, you might be eligible to go for a second time before the competition ends in December.
It’s worth a shot, right? As always, head to https://bigten.org/abbott/ to get in the game.
May Your Halloween Plans Include a Bloody Good Time — and a Donation
As Halloween festivities pick up, let us give fangs to everyone who has participated in “The We Give Blood Drive,” our conference-wide blood donation competition to help save lives. Together, more than 8,000 Big Ten fans, students and alumni have donated, and there is still about a month left in the race.
We know you have school spirit in your veins. Help your university earn points and scale the leaderboard by signing up to donate blood today. Lives — and a $1 million prize for your school and a trip to the 2024 Discover Big Ten Football Championship Game on Dec. 7, 2024 — are on the line.
You have so many opportunities to donate in the coming weeks (check out our list of campus blood drives for more), it's scary.
If you’ve already given, don’t forget to submit your donation for your school. That would be frightful!
Time to be a Playmaker: Find a Blood Drive
We football fans love a big touchdown. But, you know what doesn’t get enough credit? The play that sets up the touchdown.
That’s exactly what Abbott and the Big Ten Conference are doing in “The We Give Blood Drive,” our season-long blood donation competition to help save lives.
We’ve set up a bevy of local blood drives to help you and your school win the contest. Check out our full listing of blood drives, complete with links to sign up for your big contribution.
And of course, these drives are just one way to score. Go to bigten.org/abbott to set up your own touchdown.
All Eyes on Oregon for a Big Drive and a Huge Game
Where can you catch a big push for “The We Give Blood Drive” and one of the biggest college football games of the season this week?
It’s all going down in Eugene, Ore.
On Wednesday, Oct. 9, Abbott will host a blood drive from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Gerlinger Annex on the University of Oregon campus (students: sign up at bloodworksNW.org/UO).
Then, on Saturday, Oregon hosts Ohio State for a titanic football clash between two of the top-ranked teams in the nation.
Ducks vs. Bucks — “O” my! If this week doesn’t get your blood pumping, we don’t know what will. As always, go to bigten.org/abbott to get in the game.
What is ‘The We Give Blood Drive’? Here’s Everything You Need to Know.
Big Red is absolutely rolling: Nebraska has zoomed up to the top of our leaderboard in the first week of “The We Give Blood Drive.”
For everyone else trying to catch up, here’s a guide to this blockbuster competition.
Opening Drive: Tom Brady Helps Abbott Get Things Started
We can’t put it any better than seven-time Super Bowl champ, Michigan alumnus and “The We Give Blood Drive” ambassador Tom Brady:
Blood donation “is a cause that truly matters for so many reasons. The one that struck me was that every donation can save up to three lives,” Brady said.
That fact is central to Abbott’s “The We Give Blood Drive” with the Big Ten Conference. Brady joined Abbott Chairman and CEO Robert Ford and Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti at Thursday’s kickoff news conference in Rosemont, Ill., saying he simply couldn’t turn down the opportunity to inspire students, alumni and fans to give blood and help turn the tide against one of the largest blood shortages in a generation.
“There’s so many amazing people who give back to the community because we have the opportunity to do that,” the retired star quarterback said. “And my parents instilled in me that we should pay it forward.”
Said Ford: “We knew as a leader in diagnostics and testing we had to do something powerful to draw in donors. What better way to inspire people to donate than tapping into rivalries between Big Ten schools and offering up a friendly competition.”
And now, that competition is underway. Go to bigten.org/abbott to get in the game.
A New Race for First Place: ‘The We Give Blood Drive’
This December, the Big Ten Conference will award more than a football champion. Get ready to witness the crowning of “The We Give Blood Drive” champion.
Abbott and the Big Ten Conference partnered to launch “The We Give Blood Drive” on Thursday, opening up a conference-wide competition to encourage blood donations and help save lives by building out the U.S. blood supply for generations to come.
It will all lead up to the 2024 Discover Big Ten Football Championship Game on December 7 in Indianapolis. We’ll award the school responsible for the most donations with $1 million to advance student or community health.
Get all the details at https://bigten.org/abbott and find out how you can help carry your team to victory and make a generational impact. Game on!
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