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1.Fiction: Florida decided to cancel the LSU game
Fact: Florida and LSU were involved in the decision-making process, but SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and his office ultimately made the call. Both athletic directors, Florida’s Jeremy Foley and LSU’s Joe Alleva, said this Thursday.

The commissioner had no choice, because Florida was unwilling to commit to either the game being played Sunday/Monday at Gainesville or a neutral site. And by the time they made the call late Thursday, they said it was too late. Even though I was late Thursday that USCe-UGA moved their game to Sunday in Columbus.

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2. Fiction: Florida could have played LSU on Saturday
Fact: Hindsight is 20/20. Florida and the SEC got ripped Wednesday and early Thursday for even considering the possibility of playing the game.

I don't remember this, but maybe it was the unwillingness to move it to another location knowing full well that a Hurricane was possibly coming to rip you a new @sshole? They had plenty of time to plan a contingency, but were too stupid to do so.

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. Fiction: Florida could have played LSU on Sunday Fact: Again, that’s easy to say after the hurricane had not been as devastating in Gainesville as initially feared. But Matthew still decimated nearby cities such as St. Augustine. Instead of working the Florida-LSU game, the Gainesville Fire Department was deployed to assist surrounding areas affected by the storm. Their absence in Gainesville and that of other first responders — as well as law enforcement — prevented a home game from this weekend. And the school, which canceled classes Friday, could not project how much help or shelter the city of Gainesville would need to provide for evacuees. UF Health Shands Hospital, for example, took in hundreds of evacuee patients. “Just because the weather’s good (on game day) does not mean that everything is good elsewhere,” Logan said. “People need hotels. Food and water. There may be people still without power. There may be people who need some basic necessities because they’ve been relocated from wherever they are. … Some of the people working the games may be having to take care of those people. “You’ve gotta look at it far enough out: Can hotels accommodate fans coming in, as well as residents being relocated? You have people that are dislocated by a storm that may be moving into hotels, may be consuming things that teams would use, and people’s safety would take priority over these teams coming in and using rooms to play a game.”

Again, if they were so worried about it that far in advance, why wait so long to come up with a decision, whenever our AD gave your AD multiple options. And USCe-UGA was able to get played, and they also had issues with evacuees, lackof resources, and a short amount of time. They made the right call. They scheduled the game for Sunday un the hopes it could be played, but wouldn't have if they weren't able to. Florida should have at least had that option on the table, but it was not. By Thursday they had their mind made up that this game was NOT going to be played at all this weekend.

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4. Fiction: Florida could have played at LSU Fact: LSU offered to host the Gators, but they could not make the trip with such short notice and a hurricane potentially affecting their travel

Once again, that's on Florida. They dragged their feet on a decision even though by Tuesday they knew at the very least this storm would skirt the coast as a best case scenario. They were never going to move this game to LSU or even a neutral site. And their actions confirmed that.

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5. Fiction: Florida should have played since Miami and South Carolina did Fact: As Foley said, Gainesville’s resources are already overstressed and the ability to handle a hurricane differs from city to city. Sankey explained this Saturday on CBS. “We didn’t know how players’ families would be impacted …

Right, because Miami or FSU didn't have ANY players who had families affected by this storm. Only Florida. Right.

And about the resources for the game, they should have taken that into account Wednesday whenever they said that the game would be in Gainesville yet the weather service had the storm coming very close to the coast.