I swear I'm not just playing devil's advocate here, genuinely curious..but what could be done? I assume it was fine enough early in the day then a deluge fricked everythign up, so I mean if they decided in the 2nd quarter it wasn't safe and unplayable what would the options be?

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Posted by lsupride87

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Posted on 12/12/17 at 2:17 pm to WG_Dawg

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I swear I'm not just playing devil's advocate here, genuinely curious..but what could be done? I assume it was fine enough early in the day then a deluge fricked everythign up, so I mean if they decided in the 2nd quarter it wasn't safe and unplayable what would the options be?

Well, you need to do your research.

The field wasnt fricked due to the weather, it was fricked because they scheduled too many games on it that year......

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The game was notable for its poor field conditions. Eight state high school championship games had been played at the stadium in recent weeks, but the turf was replaced immediately after the last games on December 19. The Champs Sports Bowl, played ten days later, badly damaged the new turf. The grounds crew worked frantically over the next three days in an attempt to get the field in shape for the Capital One Bowl, but ultimately failed. As a result, this was the last Capital One Bowl to be played on grass as artificial turf was installed at the Citrus Bowl several months later.

They new 3 days before the game the field was unsafe. They chose to play on it anyway and not move the game

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