Last week, Missouri learned just four days before its matchup against LSU that it would host the national defense instead of traveling to Baton Rouge as a result of Hurricane Delta. In line with the 2020 theme, there has been another change in plans this week.
The SEC has confirmed PowerMizzou.com ‘Preliminary reports suggest that Wonderbilt will not travel to Missouri as scheduled on Saturday, resulting in a matchup postponement. Due to the Covid-19 infection and subsequent quarantine, the Commodores have fallen below the league threshold of 53 active scholarship players required to play the game. They only fielded 56 Scholarship players during last week’s defeat to South Carolina, which resulted in a quid-1 quarantine and injury.
The game will be temporarily created on December 12, when the entire league is inactive. The league has been a SEC football game again since the start of the season on September 26 due to COVID-19 complications.
The match between Missouri and Wonderbilt, tabulated as the annual home game for the Tigers, originally took place on Saturday evening: 30. It was scheduled to take off at 0 a.m. and was broadcast on the SEC network. Missouri Athletics Director Jim Stark The school said there will still be some virtual homing events on Saturday, but events that intersect with the home football game, such as the home return court, will be moved to the team’s next home game on Oct. 31 against Kentucky.
Sterk said the SEC expects the Covid-19 to eventually move games around and result in some respite from the schedule. Stark said Missouri could still reset another game this season if needed. Miss will be Missouri’s second week on November and could shift the matchup over the weekend if she has a bye (Vanderbilts Oct. Oct. 24) right next to her wicket. In addition, he said games could be played on December 19, the day of the SEC Championship game, as long as the game did not affect the two-division title. If Missouri’s second game is pushed to the end of the regular season and one division affects the championship, while not in the other match, the title game will be fought in December with a sitting on who can play. That is why S.E.C. Announced that Missouri’s match against Wonderbilt is “temporarily scheduled” for December 12.
“We set that December 12 (open) date,” Stirke said. “Indeed, I think the 19th is also available, if not in the championship game. So those are the dates that after we set our schedule as the league was founded, we moved it back, but obviously there will be twists and turns.”
Speaking on the Paul Finnbum show, Ally Drinkwitz Revealed that the news also came to him as a surprise. It was the same bus company that traveled to Missouri for the first instruction in the program that Vanderbilt would not travel to Columbia, as Modore canceled his bus fare on Monday. Drinkwitz said he understood and supported Vanderbilt’s decision to postpone the game.
“We fully understand,” Drinkwitz said. “We’re dealing with Covid like everyone else, and so our first priority is to keep everyone on Wonderbilt safe, the players safe, and these can be football competitions. And we’re going. As positive. Use it. “
Prior to the season, the SEC established a set of guidelines for postponing games due to the absence of players due to Covid-19. The guidelines allow a team to request a postponement if less than a scholarship player is available – the number of players on the NFL roster – or less than six offensive linemen (with at least one center), four defensive linemen or one quarterback. The guidelines also urge schools to choose to compete with those below the threshold or to cancel “for other unavoidable reasons.”
Wonderbilt did not disclose which of its players lost 41-7 to South Carolina on Saturday due to Covid-19 and who were injured, but the safety of the missing players is included. Donovan Kaufeman, Running back Jaon Marlowe, Safety Dashaun Jerkins, Linebacker Alston Orgi And cornback c Randall Haney. The loss to the Commodores this season fell to 0-3.
Missouri has also been affected by Covid-19 and injuries. Taig has 6 players LSU. On a positive COVID-19 won their upset due to test and contact tracing: giant receivers Damon Hazelton, Cake Christmas And Dominic Gisinto As well as defensive hull Akiel Byers And safety Stacey Brown And Tyler Jones. Each of the five players in contact would have missed the Wanderbilt game as a result of SEC protocols. The team had only two scholarship players, such as L.S.U. Listed on the roster available as a defensive tackle for the game Cabbage Whiteside And Darius Robinson Both lost the game due to injuries. A factor of the team’s seven opt-outs as well as season-ending injuries and transfers, Missouri had only 61 scholarship players available for a 45-51 win.
Missouri will return to action on October 24 when No. 10 will face Florida. The game will air at 6pm on ESPN or 6:30 pm on the SEC network. Drinkwitz said an extra week of practice would come in handy for the team that will drop the spring ball after three practices and has yet to make it available to everyone since the start of fall camp.
“It’s a wonderful thing for an event that didn’t have spring football practice, which didn’t have a full autumn camp,” Drinkwitz said. “We still haven’t got everyone to practice together. So this week, we’ll use every additional practice available to work on us and continue to install our plans, keep working on improvements.”
