re: Will the SEC make a rule regarding weather cancellations for future issues?

1 game is impacted every 10 years and games are cancelled even less frequently

So there is no point for the rule

The fact that a dumpster fire (LSU) is in the game makes it even less an issue to address

Staying away from all the heated exchanges and accusations, I think we'll see the SEC step in and create some sort of fallback plan over the offseason. Probably quietly line up a few neutral sites (NFL arenas, Birmingham, Memphis etc) and have them on standby. Of course it would depend on what's available at each date, but I imagine they will work out acceptable terms in the event it is needed.
Next time there is something along the line of a hurricane or other similar disaster, schools will be given the option (by wednesday or thursday) to work this out themselves (ie push it to a mutual open date, or push it back to Sunday or Monday at the latest, or even swap venues amongst themselves), and if they don't get it done, the league will step in and relocate the game.

It doesn't happen a lot, but it's happened to 2 league games in consecutive years. There's too much money and prestige at stake here- Fla/LSU could easily be a Top 10 matchup in any given season, and to drop it when the ACC has Fla St/Miami playing is an embarrassment to the SEC.

Future open dates might be an idea, depending on things, but you can't depend on that. And no, you can't tell LSU to drop a home game in a month and a half to make it up, that isn't the answer either.

The only big problem would be something that affects multiple games, then your backup stadium plan would require multiple safe sites (you might have 3, but only 1 available that isn't in use or in the same weather danger).

Posted by TouchdownTony on 10/7/16 at 10:06 pm to TimeOutdoors
Not sure what u can do with a hurricane bearing down about to make landfall.
Only thing is postpone until Sunday tentatively and see what happens I guess. Still not sure why that wasn't at least tabled. Have had lsu come in on Saturday and all is well. If the destruction is massive then cancel.
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A reasonable plan from an Alabama fan.

I hate Alabama. I respect them though because they put out a quality product year in year out. They want to be the best and they want to do it honorably.

It's a game. It's kids. Stop trying to game the damn system and play the damn game or don't.

Get a reasonable solution and honor your commitments.

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It doesn't happen a lot, but it's happened to 2 league games in consecutive years. There's too much money and prestige at stake here- Fla/LSU could easily be a Top 10 matchup in any given season, and to drop it when the ACC has Fla St/Miami playing is an embarrassment to the SEC.

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^^This

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It doesn't happen a lot, but it's happened to 2 league games in consecutive years. There's too much money and prestige at stake here- Fla/LSU could easily be a Top 10 matchup in any given season, and to drop it when the ACC has Fla St/Miami playing is an embarrassment to the SEC.

^^This

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south Florida didn't bear the brunt of the storm & had minimal damge

Not until it somehow screws Saban by not playing a game. Then he will be cry from the mountain tops. Of course if it's a game he is worried about he will use his player safety excuse to keep from playing.

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yeah, I'm gonna have to side with the Gators on this

when the Governor orders a state wide evacuation AND things get so bad that the President makes a pitch for relief efforts for Haiti...

ya gotta cancel the game

6 dead and 1 million without power and y'all are whining about a football game being rescheduled

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See, that's the thing, "cancelled" and "rescheduled" are 2 different things.
Georgia/South Carolina pushed to Sunday, and UCF?/Tulane pushed back to a shared open date. Those are "rescheduled".

LSU/Florida, by the nature of things, will result in a "cancel". Unless some crazy negotiations happened overnight, this weekend is out. But there's no shared open dates either, the closest is a shared weekend with OOC home games.
The choices are crappy all the way around. You either lose a marquee conference game (and Florida loses a big home game) that will leave the final standings uneven in both divisions,
or BOTH schools lose a home game, and you punish the visitor (LSU) not only by yanking a home game away, but by stuffing them into 3 consecutive conference away games, the last coming the Thursday after the makeup. That isn't right either.

added- consider LSU's position on this a second. They did NOT want to play at A&M on Thanksgiving Day every other season, that was shoved on them by the SEC. For practical purposes, you're talking about playing a team on the road with maybe 1-2 days to prep.
In A&M's case, a team that runs a unique, wide-open offense, and in this season, a team that will be ranked. I imagine that the current plan is to prep for A&M instead of South Alabama, at least half the practices, as it is. To change that, in mid-season, to having to prep for Florida instead, and shove more travel dates into the mix, will be considered unacceptable.