SEC announces 2 games rescheduled for Week 10 due to COVID-19 issues at Arkansas
The SEC announced some major changes to this week’s schedule on Monday evening.
Per a release from the league, the Arkansas-Mizzou game has been postponed due to COVID-19 issues in the Arkansas program. Mizzou will still play this week, though, as the Tigers will host Vanderbilt in a game that was postponed earlier this season.
Unfortunately for Tennessee, who was originally scheduled to play Vanderbilt this week, the Vols will now be left without an opponent.
Per the release, the league structured the schedule this way so that all 14 teams still have a chance to play 10 regular-season games. Commissioner Greg Sankey released a statement:
“As we continue to adapt to the current realities, it important to remain flexible as we move forward in the final weeks of the season,” said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. “Contact tracing continues to be the biggest contributing factor to game interruptions. We will continue to manage the remaining weeks of the football schedule to allow for as many games to be played as possible.”
We’ll see what happens with the Vanderbilt-Tennessee and Arkansas-Mizzou games moving forward. Dec. 12 and Dec. 19 are being used league-wide as makeup dates. Both games have the potential to be rescheduled for the later dates.
Got zero….ZERO…confidence in Greg Spankey to use common sense in anything. Will rejoice the day he is gone and we get a professional in place.
Agreed 100%. Well said!
Ditto!
I don’t see that Sankey had a choice here. Missouri needs four Saturdays to get from 6 played games to 10 played games, while their scheduled opponent Arkansas had a virus problem but has played 8 games already. Tennesse has played one more game than Missouri. South Carolina and Kentucky have played 8 of their 10.
Getting closer and closer to the rest of the season getting cancelled.
I don’t think so. But now teams will play with whatever # of negative tested players they can get on the field.
Gotta feeling a lot of teams are gonna have short seasons. No mention at all so far about UGA Mizzou.
Soooo, we just get left out and have another bye week? I would say we might as well cancel or concede the remaining games, but it’s good practice for us I suppose. But then again, if we continue to start G, I’d rather forfeit.
So far, not a peep about a game I really fear is going to end up cancelled at the rate things are going…Bama at LSU. LSU is a trouble case for rescheduling, and Bama is a different sort of trouble case. As far as the ability to actually keep this game on the schedule, nothing has changed to make me think otherwise so far.
What’s weird is most weeks there’s kind of a lead up, you hear about teams who are “getting close” to the threshold on Monday, then Tuesday. Nope not this week, not a peep then just suddenly Arkansas has to cancel. Strange to say the least.
Not sure what you’re trying to dig for here. Here’s the fact, we almost didn’t play last week due to not having enough players. Pittman said today that only 2 of those would be out of Covid protocol in time for Saturday…on top of the new players in protocol, based off the test results received this AM. Carry on with your conspiracy theory though. At the end of the day, were not afraid to suit up against your scary Tigers.
Georgia needs three weekends, Missouri needs four. The SEC Championship game is Dec. 19th. Nov. 28., Dec. 5, Dec. 12 and Dec. 19, are the next four weekends. We are past time for the head coaches of these teams to say, “we are playing no matter what numbers we have”. When the season started the coaching staffs knew that social distancing was going to make or break their seasons. The ability of the staffs and the athletes to follow the science of the virus dodging was always and clearly more important than dodging a tackle or a pass rush. Some rosters and coaching staffs just couldn’t follow these rules.
Missouri leads the series against Arkansas 8-3 through the 2019 season.
There is no conspiracy theory, I was simply concurring with CWRollTide on him mentioning not a peep about a game he’s anticipating being cancelled. There wasn’t a peep before Arky cancelled this week, which is odd compared to weeks past. Insecure much?
Mostly the vagaries of being COVID-jailed by contact tracing and then having the 3 consecutive negative tests required to get back on the roster.
This is so stupid. Vandy/UT is always after thanksgiving. They couldn’t have picked another game to replace Mizzou with? How many Arkansas players have it? Do they still have enough scholarship players to play? SEC decision makers jumping the gun again, 6 days before the game. Sankey falling into the COVID trap.