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Top wide receiver Terrace Marshall has decided that playing for a very, very bad LSU side was not something he wanted to do anymore. Then today, Rakeem Boyd, Arkansas’ top running back, decided to do the same. After Will Muschamp was fired at South Carolina, top defensive backs Jaycee Horn and Israel Mukuamu decided to forgo the rest of the season and safety/linebacker RJ Roderick and DT Makius Scott both opted out following that.
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On his press conference this week, SEC AD said that the conference would definitely play 10 games. Sankey had already shuffled around the order of games in mid-October, and will have to do again now Alabama vs LSU, Texas A&M vs Tennessee, Mississippi State vs Auburn and Georgia vs Missouri have all been postponed. “One thing I’m not concerned about is the respect that exists for playing an SEC football schedule. We adopted the 10-game schedule knowing the rigours,” he said. There is a move to go to December 19th to get everything completed. You get the feeling that if there are games cancelled as the season drags on, we’re going have to see teams play incomplete schedules. But probably
Read moreGeorgia vs Missouri now cancelled due to COVID-19. When’s next?
Read moreThis week it’s normal one of the craziest games on the SEC Calendar: LSU vs Auburn. We’ve had burning buildings, missed kicks at the end, last-second touchdowns and the end of Les Miles’ tenure. The Geaux Tigers have won 3 in row and 7 of the last ten, but of those last three games, they’ve been settled by a TOTAL of eight points. With no-one thinking about both sides seriously, it should be fun to at least watch, praying for a Big 12 game to once again break out in Jordan-Hare (if you’ve got the over!). Elsewhere, one of the SEC West’s most underrated rivalries takes place at Kyle Field instead of Arlington, which is unfortunate bearing in mind just how awesome
Read moreThe SEC has moved a number of teams’ schedule after Vanderbilt postponed its game against Missouri and then Florida postponed its match-up with LSU – both thanks to COVID-19. Kentucky‘s clash with Missouri has been moved to October 24th to October 31st. Georgia at Kentucky has been moved from October 24th to October 31st. Missouri at Florida has been moved from October 24th to October 31st. Vanderbilt at Missouri has been moved to December 12th (as expected). LSU‘s trip to Florida has been moved to December 12th (as expected). The set of fans that are absolutely fuming are Georgia fans. Although Georgia’s still going to get a week off, it’s not going to be before the World’s Largest Cocktail Party
Read moreBefore the season started, Andy Staples, the college football writer-come-podcast host, criticised the Big 12 for what was going on with COVID. He said that Greg Sankey and the SEC knew what they were doing when they started the season a bit later. For three weeks, things seemed to be going well. Sure, we were making fun of student bodies in the stands and their lack of either masking up or social distancing, but the non-lingering of the TV screens made us go back to the football. Then this week, the news started to hit. Monday: Straight out of the gate, the SEC announces that it will postpone the game between Vanderbilt and Missouri. Vanderbilt has been struggling with COVID-19 cases,
Read moreHere is one plea to the SEC: Please cancel LSU’s game with Florida next week. Yes, Todd Grantham and Bo Pelini would probably thank you for it. Their defenses are bruised, beaten and battered, and their fans aren’t very happy. Dan Mullen – who weirdly still wants 90,000 people to risk their lives to pack The Swamp for the LSU game because Texas A&M overfilled their own student section for their own game – won’t thank you. But here’s the big one: Florida has had 19 positive cases on its team. A few members of the team have ignored their team’s protocols, hit a few Gainseville bars and parties, and all hell has broken loose. And now – as COVID tends to
Read moreMissouri’s game with Vanderbilt on October 17th has been postponed. The game – which has been rescheduled for December 12th -was “due to positive tests and subsequent quarantining of individuals within the Vanderbilt football program”. It was meant to Missouri’s homecoming game.
Read moreThis College Football season has already had a few highlights. We’ve had the return of Miami’s Turnover Chain, revamped and restudded (Miami’s also 2-0, so people are already saying: “IS MIAMI BACK?” (Clue: Yes, until they play Clemson and get beat by 40). There’s the laughter at the Big 12, who seem to be embarrassing themselves at every opportunity. There’s the Big Ten, who have managed to put the train back on the tracks, and frankly, we can’t wait until their match-ups start at the end of October, because More College Football. But there have also been the cancellations or postponements. There’s COVID-19 cases and contact tracing and schools scurrying to make sure that all hell doesn’t break loose. Baylor
Read moreToday Florida said that they had 7 COVID-19 cases on their team, up from six from last week. The news silenced practice for today – not great news for Dan Mullen’s team that start the season against Ole Miss on September 26th. Right now, practice is important. Earlier on, Ed Orgeron said about COVID-19: “”I think most — not all of our players — but most of our players have caught it… I think hopefully they don’t catch it again and hopefully they’re not out for games… I’m not going to say all of them…. But some players have caught it. I don’t know the percentage. Hopefully, that once you catch it, you don’t get it again.” Orgeron declined to talk about
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