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SEC reportedly close to finalizing minimum player requirements to play this season
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What’s it going to take to cancel a game in the Southeastern Conference this season?
According to Pete Thamel of Yahoo Sports, SEC teams will have to have a minimum of 53 scholarship players available to play heading into a game.
Hopefully, it doesn’t come to that during any point in the season but the SEC has to be smart and at least prepare for this potential possibility.
In addition to that overall number, each team must have a quarterback, seven offensive linemen and four defensive linemen, according to Thamel. He also notes that the final approval of these numbers is pending but claims the SEC is “headed that way” when it comes to approving these numbers.
We’ve seen a number of games called off already during the football season but we’ve yet to see a single Power 5 matchup lost due to COVID.
Now we know what it would take for that to happen in the SEC.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com
