BREAKING Auburn-Mississippi State postponed

[ALA2262]

Saturday's game between Auburn and Mississippi State has been postponed due to COVID-19 issues within the Bulldogs' program.

Miss. St. positives force Auburn game to be PPD

Mississippi State does not have the minimum number of 53 scholarship athletes available because of COVID-19 issues and injuries, forcing Saturday's football game against Auburn to be postponed until Dec. 12.

www.espn.com

 

[B1GTide]

 

[ALA2262]

So, I was supposed to know you were discussing Auburn-MSU in an LSU thread?

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

So if it is postponed until Dec 12th and the Bama-Whos game potentially postponed, when is the SECCG scheduled again...?

 

[B1GTide]

So if it is postponed until Dec 12th and the Bama-Whos game potentially postponed, when is the SECCG scheduled again...?

The SECCG date is set in stone.

 

[seebell]

Bama might be well-rested for the playoffs.

 

[81usaf92]

So if it is postponed until Dec 12th and the Bama-Whos game potentially postponed, when is the SECCG scheduled again...?

No. Alabama-LSU is more than likely canceled and LSU takes the forfeit

 

[OSUTideFan]

Should Bama play the barn instead this week?
That way we can beat them twice in one season.

 

[The Ols]

No. Alabama-LSU is more than likely canceled and LSU takes the forfeit

I believe that the game is deemed a "no contest."

 

[ALA2262]

"If a team determines there is another reason it cannot play a game, the school may request the game be rescheduled by presenting the reasons for changing the game date, including the total number of unavailable players. Sankey would then decide whether to reschedule the game or, if this option is not possible, declare the game no contest."

SEC releases policy for canceling, postponing games due to COVID-19

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[ALA2262]

Should Bama play the barn instead this week?
That way we can beat them twice in one season.

Twice!? Won't get to beat them once. They ain't coming. See post#10 above.

 

[Bama9001]

If Bama vs LSU gets cancelled/postponed, is it possible the conference might look at which of the LSU/Florida or LSU/Bama games have the greater impact on the conference championship game race and then opt to play that game on December 12th?

I'm thinking UGA might want Florida to play and possibly take another loss while TAM would want Bama to play if we lost a game somewhere else and they stood to win the west.

Point being there might be a very good reason that one game might be more important than the other. I'd rather have the week off before the SECCG but we are living in strange times.

 

[92tide]

Bama might be well-rested for the playoffs.

we'll get to see what an acc schedule is like

 

[jashleyren2]

The SECCG date is set in stone.

I've seen some online noise, which is always suspect, about some of these make up games of no significance as to the participants in the SECCG, being ALSO played on the 19th of December. Like I said, noise, and unnecessary. After seeing the injuries in FLA/GA last weekend, and our own injury against Tennessee that has ended the college career of Jaylen Waddle, any games that are played need to have some bigger picture significance. Anything involving Alabama and Texas A&M in the west, as they are really the only two in play right now. Frankly, Florida could take the rest off. They have 1 loss, but they own the tie breaker against the #2 team in the East, who has 2 losses now. Realistically, Florida CAN'T take the rest off, but they can clinch sometime in the next couple weeks. LSU/Florida rematch on the 12th, therefore, has no importance. Cancel it.

 

[B1GTide]

I've seen some online noise, which is always suspect, about some of these make up games of no significance as to the participants in the SECCG, being ALSO played on the 19th of December.

That may be, but Alabama has a game scheduled for that date already.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

The SECCG date is set in stone.

When is that?

 

[B1GTide]

When is that?

12/19

 

[Saban4Ever]

Auburn now has 9 players and 3 coaches test positive after the bye week. Plus contact tracing quarantine. They had not had any positives since mid September, until now.

Looks like the bye weeks have resulted in cases for each team now. I hope Bama is not affected too bad. Should know by today or tomorrow I guess.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Auburn now has 9 players and 3 coaches test positive after the bye week. Plus contact tracing quarantine. They had not had any positives since mid September, until now.

Looks like the bye weeks have resulted in cases for each team now. I hope Bama is not affected too bad. Should know by today or tomorrow I guess.

Good grief. Should NEVER have left campus. Period. I'll be shocked if we don't also have cases, but I know how Coach Saban drills things into these guys so hopefully they were extremely careful.

You don't get Covid from playing the games. I think we can safely say that now. It is at least extremely rare. But when people venture out of their "bubble" and get careless, that's when it happens and it derails everything you've spent all this time working to protect.

I get it... it's just sports and these guys are still young and certainly don't owe me anything. BUT, I'm also not in need of playing games to audition for a potential NFL roster spot.

 

[B1GTide]

Good grief. Should NEVER have left campus. Period. I'll be shocked if we don't also have cases, but I know how Coach Saban drills things into these guys so hopefully they were extremely careful.

You don't get Covid from playing the games. I think we can safely say that now. It is at least extremely rare. But when people venture out of their "bubble" and get careless, that's when it happens and it derails everything you've spent all this time working to protect.

I get it... it's just sports and these guys are still young and certainly don't owe me anything. BUT, I'm also not in need of playing games to audition for a potential NFL roster spot.

To clarify - Covid has not been spread from team to team in games because testing has kept infected players off the field - so far. But all it takes is a false negative test to change that.