Florida-LSU game postponed by Hurricane Matthew

“Well, the game needs to be played”, Sankey said. We are the elves who what we want, like hiring first-time head coaches (TWICE) because someone thought it was a good idea, or messing with branding in stupid-ass directions, or ignoring the media as a whole despite national college football writers living in town, or watching the game from the goalposts like you had anything to do with it while periodically dropping in on film sessions?

UF and LSU do not share an open date. Florida and LSU will look to reschedule this game later in the season, though because neither team shares a bye week, that seems unlikely.

Obviously, we don’t have all the details, but from how I see, the majority of the blame for this entire thing lies with Florida. “Everything we do is in tight conversation and collaboration with those parties”.

With Hurricane Matthew bearing down on the Sunshine State, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey did the right thing Thursday afternoon by postponing Saturday’s LSU-Florida game in Gainesville. It would have been hard to assemble the necessary security and emergency personnel, for one thing, and the Gainesville area also had been designated as an evacuation zone for coastal Florida residents. Georgia’s game at SC, also in the storm’s path, was also moved to Sunday.

Alleva said LSU offered multiple options to the SEC and Florida including playing in Baton Rouge, at a neutral site and even for the Tigers to fly into Gainesville on Sunday and out that night after the game, should it be moved back one day.

Saturday night’s game that has No. 23 Florida State visiting No. 10 Miami remains on as scheduled, though officials remain somewhat cautious.

“I want to be careful because there are a number of options, it doesn’t narrow to just one”, Sankey said.

He said the decision came with a “unique set of circumstances”. “Having been through hurricanes, we all know that safety’s always going to be the No. 1 issue”.

– South Carolina’s men’s soccer game in Miami against FIU, scheduled for Saturday, was pushed back to Monday because of travel concerns.

Some have noted November 19 as a possible make-up date, when both teams are playing non-conference teams. They (Florida) was very confident on Tuesday and Wednesday we were going to play the game.

Rest assured that those who do have control – namely, the SEC office – will hear plenty from LSU, Florida, Tennessee and others as they try to sort out the aftermath.

Sankey finally postponed the game 46 hours before Saturday’s 12 noon ET kickoff in Gainesville, which was on the fringe of Hurricane Matthew’s winds as it scooted up Florida’s East Coast.

It’s the second straight year weather altered a SC home game: its LSU contest was shifted to Baton Rouge, Louisiana because of the fatal flooding that struck last October. If Tennessee were to lose two SEC games and Florida were to win out, the SEC rulebook states that because of winning percentage, 6-1 Florida would go ahead of 6-2 Tennessee in spite of the Gators’ loss to Volunteers in Knoxville on September 24. (Let that sink in.) Wouldn’t the College Football Playoff selection committee have to give the Tigers serious consideration for the final four?

Sankey did not put a timetable on the decision.

“We told the league we’re 100 percent committed to whatever scenario they come up with”, Foley said.