Another CFB game involving top 10 team gets postponed
Entering Thursday, we’d already had 3 big college football matchups — Vanderbilt-Mizzou, LSU-Florida and Baylor-Oklahoma State — postponed due to COVID-19 outbreaks.
Now, we can add a fourth game to the list, and this one involves a top-10 team out of the AAC.
Per reports on Thursday morning, the game between No. 8 Cincinnati and Tulsa has been moved back to Dec. 5 due to a COVID outbreak in the Bearcats’ program:
The #Bearcats game at Tulsa has been postponed and rescheduled for Saturday, December 5th.https://t.co/Eg3lnD9Ypo
— Cincinnati Football (@GoBearcatsFB) October 15, 2020
“We are disappointed we will be unable to play Tulsa Saturday,” Cincinnati AD John Cunningham said in a release. “We knew this season was going to require a lot of patience and flexibility and disruptions were likely to happen. The health and safety of student-athletes, coaches and staff is always our primary focus and we appreciated the outstanding work and continued dedicated of our medical staff throughout the pandemic.”
As Cunningham said, this season is going to require patience and flexibility as we continue to navigate our way through a pandemic. This likely won’t be the last game postponed in 2020.
I’m usually a pretty positive person but this week seems like the beginning of the end of this season.
Or it could cause all the players and coaches to redouble up on their efforts to be safe around a lot of the dumber student population. I live in Lexington and I have driven by some of the bars right off of campus and they are jam packed seemingly every single weekend.
This^ Same thing happened to the MLB when the Phillies and Marlins had their scares at the beginning of the season. It will get straightened out.
Let’s all just hope & pray that we can complete this season…The SEC needs another National Championship…painted Crimson.
It isn’t looking good right now. Almost every state is showing increases in number of new cases over the last few weeks.
People need to realize that this isn’t “just going to go away”
Mask up, space out, wash often and be careful. This virus is still transmissible if you are not showing symptoms.
The problem is we only have half, if that many, following the guidelines. The irony is they’re the ones claiming they want normalcy.