LSU vs Florida postponed to Dec 12

The LSU vs Florida game has been postponed to Dec 12 due to positive COVID tests.

19 Gators players and two assistant coaches had reported positive for the virus, meaning that that would have left the Gators either below the 53-person scholarship line or unable to fill all of their positions.

Florida has also closed down football facilities until further notice.

This will also be a blow for the SEC this week, which was meant to have back-to-back marquee match-ups with Georgia’s clash with Alabama following up the coverage, but that is now no more.

The December 12th date was put in place at the back end of the season for postponements (all SEC teams are off), which means that there should be interest in the season until after the SEC Championship Game, ending the rigmarole of having to wait two weeks before one of college football’s greatest seasonal games.

The decision comes just after Missouri and Florida was moved to December 12th because of too many cases at Vanderbilt.

Florida AD Scott Stricklin said that the issue could have been up to the players not understanding COVID-19 and the symptoms: “I don’t want to speculate as to what the mindset was, I really think it’s, it could be as simple as not understanding symptoms,” Stricklin said. “And, you know, I know people personally who have had the sniffles and a friend of theirs, were, you know, was a COVID positive so they went got testing done that they had and they they thought they just had, you know, something pretty common. So understanding, you know, your own body and being on the lookout to be suspicious when you do have any kind of abnormality whether it’s a headache or sniffles or fatigue, whatever it may be, you know, as a college student, you have those things and it’s not uncommon. But in a COVID environment, it’s so important that we are hyper sensitive to being diligent on that front so I don’t know that this was a situation where someone goes, ‘I don’t feel well but I’m going to power through it,’ this a situation where someone felt like I got a sniff on a Kleenex and I’m ready to go play a game.”

Of course, then comes the question: ‘How are these kids so goodman stupid that they didn’t seem to understand that ‘the sniffles’ might be an indication of COVID-19? Did Dan Mullen or his medical staff not say to the Gators players: “Hey, if you’ve got the sniffles, go get tested for COVID-19.”

The timeline was this: Positive players who were convinced that they just had ‘allergies’ jumped on the team jet, and then 19 players had it including two assistants. 10 more have now had to be quarantined, and Florida simply couldn’t make a game happen.

This news comes after Gators head coach Dan Mullen has backtracked on his comments/ was forced to backtrack on his comments about 90,000 people being needed to fill The Swamp, after seeing many more than the 30,000 that were meant to be in Kyle Field, and blaming them for the Gators’ poor defense.