SEC announces decision on Georgia-Missouri game this week
By Keith Farner
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The Georgia-Missouri game scheduled for Saturday has been postponed, the league announced on Wednesday morning.
The league said the decision is because of positive tests, contact tracing and subsequent quarantine of individuals within the Missouri football program. The action is consistent with SEC COVID-19 management requirements. The league added, “because Missouri has a game tentatively scheduled for December 12, the opportunity to reschedule the Georgia at Missouri game will need to be evaluated. The rescheduling of games on the remaining SEC football schedule may include December 19 as a playing date.”
This is the fourth SEC game scheduled for this week that will not be played following similar situations involving at least one team from the following games: Texas A&M-Tennessee, Auburn-Mississippi State and Alabama-LSU.
This decision is not a surprise since the rising cases were noted earlier in the week, and has been a growing problem around the league.
On Tuesday at his regular press conference, coach Eli Drinkwitz explained where the program stood with the virus.
“Contact tracing was significant at a position,” said Drinkwitz. “But there’s no outbreak or pause (of team activities) or anything like that. We went out and practiced today. And then we test again today and we’ll find out those results. … We went, four straight weeks without a single positive. And now we had one and we’ve got some significant contact tracing just from the nature of that positive. Our number one priority is the health and safety of our players and our team. The number one thing we know about this virus is it’s highly contagious. So we’re trying to be very smart about wrapping our arms around it and making sure that there’s not a reason to have to pause.”
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
