In August, it appeared like school soccer would possibly grasp up its pads till the spring. The Large Ten and Pac-12 conferences have been the primary Energy 5 leagues to place their seasons on maintain, and all eyes shifted to the Southeastern Convention (SEC), Large 12 and ACC. The SEC not solely vowed to play, but it surely led the best way.
Now, after three weeks of SEC video games, the league is beginning to postpone video games due to the virus. There had been no schedule alterations via final weekend. However via Wednesday, there are two postponements this week and one other attainable sport that could be affected.
These SEC video games scheduled for Saturday (Oct. 17) have been postponed due to COVID-19 infections:
- LSU at Florida
- Vanderbilt at Missouri
Each of those video games have been rescheduled to Dec. 12—the SEC’s lone common open date for all 14 member colleges.
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There is a good chance that this weekend’s Ole Miss at Arkansas could possibly be postponed as some Ole Miss gamers have reportedly examined optimistic.
Within the Large 12, this weekend’s sport of Baylor at Oklahoma State has additionally been postponed.
In the meantime, the Large Ten is scheduled to kickoff its season subsequent weekend (Oct. 24), and the Pac-12 will begin their season two weeks after that. Each of these conferences voted to reinstate their seasons after watching leagues just like the ACC, Large 12, Solar Belt and unbiased groups efficiently begin in early September. The SEC started its 10-game, conference-only schedule on Sept. 26.
The College of Florida first reported Tuesday that 5 gamers examined optimistic for the virus after a sport at Texas A&M final weekend. After additional statement Wednesday, Florida athletics director Scott Stricklin mentioned 18 scholarship gamers and three walk-on gamers had examined optimistic.
Florida on Tuesday suspended athletic actions. On Wednesday, they pulled the plu on Saturday’s large tilt of LSU visiting “The Swamp.”
“It may well sneak up on you in a rush. The important thing factor is you have to have the flexibility to push the brake when issues begin to happen like what we’re seeing proper now. You have to be keen to hit pause sometimes,” Stricklin mentioned Wednesday. “The SEC schedule was arrange with an occasion like this in thoughts. As a lot as we wish to give our children the chance to compete, we perceive this is not a traditional yr and we will have the flexibility to adapt to uncommon circumstances reminiscent of this.”
The story behind a few of the Florida gamers catching COVID is form of unusual as nicely. Gamers claimed that they had allergy-like signs like runny noses and complications final Friday, however they did not report them.
Athletic director Scott Stricklin mentioned some Florida gamers who examined optimistic mentioned after the actual fact that they had a runny nostril or headache final Friday. They didnât report the signs as a result of they thought it was allergic reactions.
— Wilson Alexander (@whalexander_) October 14, 2020
On Monday, the SEC postponed its first sport (Missouri at Vanderbilt) after Vanderbilt reported a number of COVID-related instances.
In Oxford, Mississippi, the Ole Miss Rebels have quite a few gamers banged up from Saturday’s sport towards Alabama. There’s additionally an outbreak of COVID on the campus. If a crew’s roster falls under 53 scholarship gamers earlier than a sport, then that sport should be forfeited, postponed or canceled.
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