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We need that game to be played....

Been hearing that too. South Carolina-LSU game last year was moved to Baton Rouge.....Spurrier's last game before he resigned.

They are also saying the UGA-USCe game might be moved to the Georgia Dome.

Go corn dogs, no matter where it is played.

I think they win relatively easily.

I don't think there is anyway it just gets outright canceled.

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It will be played, somehow......What year was it because of a hurricane we played at LSU on Monday....I think?

Anyone think Orgeron keeps the job if he does well the rest of the way? If he can open up the offense they will not be an easy out. Hope they embarrass the crocs.

2005. The great comeback.

Clausen rescues Ainge

Bandit and I we're there

Yep.  And the greatest part was the idjut cajun sitting right next to us, who, just prior to half, stated loudly for our benefit that "I hope they put Clausen in".

Well, he got his wish.  Too bad he wasn't around at the end.   :naughty:

UF is refusing to move the game and insisting it be played at Gainesville. Will announce at 1:00 PM today the starting time. So they do not care that tropical and/or hurricane force winds and up to 10 in. of rain may hit Friday. I guess no electricity, police, and medical staff on site will not be a problem. Because that is likely to happen. It will be gone by Saturday. Who cares if the roads may be impassable and dangerous. It is more important that this game be played and on SEC Network (provided there is electricity to the trucks and satellite antenna are still in Florida and working).

UF may just prove that football is more important than sanity and safety. Covering your ears and screaming "Nah, Nah, Nah. I am not listening to you." is such a mature response to a possible disaster.

Hm, well, it's "only" a Cat 3 Hurricaine, and Hogtown is about as far inland as it gets in Floridy.  It may not touch down anywhere near the coast contiguous to Hogtown either.  IMO, Gainesville/Hogtown is unlikely to be hit that hard.  We will see I guess.

Now a Cat 4....140MPH sustained wind. Bad storm. Gainesville is 75 miles from the coast.

I went through Hurricane David in Florida in 1979....As a crow flies we were 4 miles from the Atlantic....That one hurricane was enough for me.

Category 3 is the threshold of a major hurricane. At the very least, it's no weather to be playing football in, even 75 miles inland.

Cat 4 is definitely worse...it may still be likely to mostly miss gainesville.

What I suspect is that florida would rather it move later in the year and don't want it played in br. So rather than move it now, they say it's on and if weather goes bad it will be made up later, possibly Sunday or monday. End of season not an option since sec teams no longer have bye prior to seccg.

Transparent move by florida to keep it a home game, but I don't blame them.

Game is canceled, will not be made up, per reports.

No way they can do that. We made up our game with Florida in 2001. Push the SECCG game back a week. Problem solved.

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no, it is postpones, will be made up, if required
We win out it doesn't matter
We lose one it doesn't matter
They lose another it most likely didn't matter, and they will
L$U will most likely drive whether the game is played
I guess FL after buying a new AD can't afford to. It out PU 

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^This.....No school can have one less SEC game if it matters in the standings....Will Not happen. If we were to lose 2 SEC games and Florida were to run the table in the SEC...we would have 2 losses and Florida only 1. That can't and won't happen without them having to play the game. As you posted....it might not matter. If it does matter they will have to play it.

Heck...if you can not play a game and it doesn't matter if you make it up or not....why don't we flood Neyland next Thursday and say....we can't play Bama our field is under water and we aren't going to make it up.

Edit: Not saying to shy away from Bama...just making a point.

I listened to Foley live as I was driving at the time, and he said whether it would be made up is TBD, but that is the intent.

As I say above, I listed to the Foley presser because I was driving and it was on the Slimebaum show.  He very strongly emphasized that it was about safety.

What's interesting is, FSU-Miami has yet to be moved, and FAU managed to reschedule their game already although that isn't final.

Now, FSU-Miami is in Miami which is the other end of the state and also on Saturday night, both of which no doubt were factors.  Foley also mentioned that Gainseville will be swamped with folks from the coast and they want hotel rooms freed up for that.

But it does seem that UF is taking a different approach than other teams.  UNC is also not moving their game. 

So...great excuse there Foley.   :naughty: 

Play it on a Sunday....Both play patsies the same weekend to.

Bottom line is...if it comes down to matter who wins the East they have to play the game.

The initial report was from Baton Rouge press and has since been corrected. But with that said, there is no rule that says they have to make up the game.

If the East is riding on it, that game better get played.  I swear to God, if the SEC sends a 6-1 croc team to the Championship ahead of a 6-2 UT team that spanked them head to head, a year after letting them keep 6 wins with a PED-enhanced QB... :mad:

But that being said, corndog fans are the LAST ones who should be complaining about this.  Recall the conversation prior to our game in 2005:

UT: We're so sorry for all you guys have gone through.  And now it looks like there's another storm headed your way.  Clearly it will be logistically impossible to play a game down there this week.  So why don't we just swap home dates?  You guys come up to Knoxville on Saturday, and we'll go down there next year.

LSU: Yeah, sorry, but that's just not going to work for us.  Our fans have lost their homes, and everything they own.  Many have lost loved ones.  Food and water are scarce across the region. What these people need right now, more than anything in the world, is to go to a football game.

UT: Really?  THAT'S what they need more than anything in the world?

LSU:  Are you being insensitive to the suffering of Louisianans?!

UT: NO, no no.  We just...

LSU: KATRINA!

UT: Okay, sorry.  What do you propose?

LSU: We're going to play on Monday.

UT: Monday?  But isn't Hurricane Rita supposed to make landfall around then?

LSU: Well, yeah.  But it's probably going to miss us.  Probably.

UT: Uh, ok.  If we play it sometime in the afternoon, that would work best for us.  That would give our people time to drive down and back up afterwards, since there are no hotel rooms available.

LSU: No, we're playing a night game.  That's what we do.  Our people need a night game.

UT: But that would mean that most of our 10,000 fans who were planning to come will have to eat their tickets.

LSU: Yeah, and since there are no rooms, you'll have to leave your band and cheerleaders at home, too.

UT: Why can't we just do it in the daytime?

LSU: BECAUSE KATRINA!  ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO FIGHT US ON THIS, AFTER ALL WE'VE BEEN THROUGH?

UT: No, no, no.  Sorry.  Just secure a few rooms for our team, and we'll be down there Monday night.

LSU: No rooms means no rooms.  Your team is going to have to come down the day of the game and go back that night.  Oh, and the airports are closed, so they'll have to bus down.

UT: Wait, isn't YOUR team staying in a hotel the night before?

LSU: Yeah.  What of it?

UT: Well, couldn't they just stay in their OWN dorms?

LSU: No.

UT: Can OUR team stay in your dorms?

LSU: ARE YOU QUESTIONING US?

UT: No, no no.  It just seems that you're taking advantage of the situ...

LSU: KATRINA!

UT: Sorry.

LSU: Now we've been through a lot, and we REALLY need this win, so you WILL be good patsies and play the Washington Generals to our Harlem Globetrotters, right?

UT: That's one option.  Or we could beat your ass with your former backup QB.  One or the other.

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The SEC bylaws says that each conference team must play the equal number of SEC games....So yes, if it matters.... the game has to be played or it won't count in your SEC standings.

If it doesn't matter in the East or West standings then it doesn't have to be played. If this was Vandy not playing they wouldn't have to play it because it doesn't matter in the outcome of the conference or division.

Foley also said it might come down to a vote of the ADS if the game can't be replayed. Or maybe he meant to decide IF it needed to be replayed.

So if it doesn't matter, and they choose not to play it, do both teams forfeit?  They should, IMO.

Likely made up on November 19 if it matters, played either Dec 3 or 10 if it does not.

http://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/florida-vs-lsu-game-postponed-indefinitely-due-to-hurricane-future-uncertain/

As for the possibility of the game being played later in the season, the two teams have different bye weeks (Florida on Oct. 22, LSU on Oct. 29), but could potentially work on buyout options for their respective Nov. 19 nonconference games with Presbyterian and South Alabama to play the conference game instead.

While that seems like the most likely option, another possible alternative would be to play the game on Dec. 3 (the same day as the SEC Championship Game) or Dec. 10 (the week after) depending where the two teams are in the standings.

My guess is that it's likely to matter to one or the other.  Let's say the Vols do split the next two games.  We still play Missouri on November 19 and Vandy on November 26.  Theoretically, either or both of those could be a loss.  So even if Florida loses to Ark or Uga and already has two losses, they would mathematically still have a shot if we have one loss on November 19.

So the only way they could not play it is if Florida has three losses the week before, and the Vols only have one, and there is no 3-way tiebreaker possible with  some other East team (which would probably have to be Vandy or Mizzou, otherwise we win all tiebreakers).  Another way would be if Florida already had two SEC losses prior to November 19, and the Vols were undefeated.  Then we could lose to Mizzou and Vandy and still take the title.  Again, we have to assume no three-way tiebreaker is required in that case (which would mean either Vandy or MIzzou would have to be part of the tie, which is unlikely).

If Florida only has the one SEC loss to us the week prior to November 19, they have to play on that date.

It also seems likely that LSU might be alive on the week before November 19, but I can wait for that one.   :naughty:

I have read that LSU has already nixed the Nov. 19 option.

Yep.  They could lose $5 million from a lost home game, although the SEC supposedly has insurance to cover that.

But it's not up to them.   :naughty:

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec-football/report-lsu-wont-agree-ufs-suggested-makeup-date/

SEC will make final call on LSU-Gators makeup date. Gators want Nov. 19 (and to buy out non-conference games). LSU does not want that

We will see. I'm not sure Greg Sankey has the backbone to force LSU into the Nov. 19 makeup date against their wishes.

I'm telling you...mark it down now: this game will not be played. Tennessee better find a way to win one of the next two or pin its hopes on Georgia or Arkansas.

Hurricane Matthew is expected to have minimal impact in Gainesville. Weather forecast is sunny with a high of 86 for Saturday. LMAO!!!

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As with most "legal" issues the SEC bylaws aren't so easy to decipher for the layman. There is conflicting info going around... Florida could win it at 6-1(best win percentage), BUT also that teams must play 8 games to qualify for SECCG. Others have said Florida forfeit is possible because LSU made every effort to play the game. I'm sure UT won't lay down on the issue if it becomes an issue.

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The 8-game requirement trumps anything else.

Yes, this postponement smells. #Foleyisap-ssy   :naughty:

https://www.seccountry.com/lsu/joe-alleva-on-lsu-florida-the-game-is-not-going-to-happen (https://www.seccountry.com/lsu/joe-alleva-on-lsu-florida-the-game-is-not-going-to-happen)

it doesn't look good for a resched of the game.  I keep hearing people say there is an "8 game rule", but I am skeptical of that.  Like Butch says - "the SEC won't let that happen" - I think the SEC would step in, but who knows?  As BDV intimated up above in this thread, if we get screwed by this cancellation, there will be absolute hell to pay.  I would probably be done with the SEC for quite some time.  The Vols going 6-2 may indeed be the most likely outcome.  7-1 is probably just as likely, but we may very well end up at 6-2.  Yeah, I'd love us to go undefeated, but we would need some luck for that to happen, and, hey, we have gone to that well of luck many times already in this young season.

Really with forecasts as they are, move it to late Saturday. Play it. They won't do that either. Smh.

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IMO, the only just solution is for SEC athletic directors to suspend the conference bylaws and allow a 6-win Tennessee team to go to Atlanta ahead of a 6-1 Florida team. That won't happen, but it should. Tennessee will be the only team in the East to have beaten every other East team. This is assuming that UT takes care of business after Alabama, of course. And to those numbskulls who are saying Tennessee should just win one of its next two games and not worry about it, what if Tennessee announced today that it will not play Texas A&M tomorrow, thus avoiding a likely loss (on paper) and virtually assuring itself of a trip to Atlanta? That's akin to what Florida did by canceling the LSU game. And while there are lots of folks who like to play the game of moral self-righteousness and claim that the rest of us have our priorities out of whack for insisting that a game be played despite a killer hurricane, there's absolutely no reason this game couldn't have been moved...even if, as a last resort, it meant moving the game to Baton Rouge. South Carolina did it last year on a Wednesday due to historic flooding. Florida knew at the first of the week that this storm was likely to come within 75 miles of Gainesville. The forecast hasn't changed much over the last several days. But asshat Jeremy Foley conveniently stalled until Thursday (and weak-kneed Greg Sankey allowed him to do so), then claimed it was too late.

In reality, Florida's handling of this deserves a forfeit. But there's no way the SEC will force them to forfeit, and the Gators will get credit for trying to reschedule on Nov. 19.

There is a precedent that has been set of the SEC intervening and changing the rules in the middle of the season.  Remember when there was a 3 way tie looming and the last tie-breaker of institutional vote was likely to be invoked?  They quickly changed the rules in the middle of the season and came up with some poll ranking tiebreaker.  But this situation we're talking about now would be a bigger intrusion into the season, for sure.  However, there would be some serious blowback from the media on the SEC if this scenario went down.

The best way to handle this would be for the commissioner to declare today that if that game doesn't get played, and if it would have had an impact on either divisional race, then for purposes of deciding the division champ ONLY, the other team(s) in question get to throw out one inter-divisional game.  Not only would that be the fairest outcome, but it would probably light a fire under Foley and/or Alleva.  You'd probably then see those guys do whatever they can to get the game rescheduled. :frown:

I agree with Creek- this is NOT a good look for our new Commissioner.  Lord knows I was no fan of Mike Slive, but you know damn well he would've prepared for any contingency and had this thing resolved by Wednesday, at the latest.

I'll tell your something else.  There has been a lot of talk the past few years about changing the conference schedules.  Particularly, of getting rid of permanent cross-divisional opponents.  I've always been of the the opinion that the UT/bammer game has to be saved at any cost.  But if this doomsday scenario comes to pass, I would probably change my mind.  If the UF/LSU game doesn't get played, I would feel a lot better about our chances if we were playing MSU or Auburn rather than bammer.

I understand UF not wanting to give up a home game with a tough opponent. I wouldn't want to have to move the Bama game from Knoxville to somewhere else. I  see no reason it can't be rescheduled. Doesn't have to be on a Saturday.

That's my feeling as well.  Florida is responsible for hosting the game.  LSU offered to host it for them, given the circumstances.  Florida understandably declined, but that doesn't relieve them of responsibility for hosting.  Find a solution, or forfeit.

Georgia is going to bury them anyway

I don't know about that, uga looks pretty weak to me.

Arkansas might.

Well I'm no numbskull, but I absolutely won't worry until the next two are played.
And beyond that, the SEC absolutely will resolve this. Foley actually said Sankey made the call. I completely believe that.

Finally,  I also believe the 8 game rule is binding. The bylaws clearly state it's based on win % out of 8 games.

Having said that, I like BDVs suggestion. Of the game is not made up, let other east teams drop one game of their choice.