re: Bama Football Tidings

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Alabama’s road game at LSU, which was postponed due to COVID-19 issues for the Tigers, has been rescheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5, it was announced on Friday. The scheduling move also means the Tide’s Dec. 5 game at Arkansas will be moved, likely to Dec. 12.

Alabama and LSU were originally set to play on Nov. 14, but the game was postponed due to a combination of positive tests, contact tracing and subsequent quarantining of individuals within the LSU program, consistent with SEC COVID-19 management requirements. Now the game will be made up three weeks later thanks to some schedule reshuffling by the SEC. 

"The cooperation and flexibility of our coaches, athletics directors and campus leaders along with the dedication of our student-athletes now provides the opportunity to reach this point in the season with the ability for each SEC team to play ten football games in 2020," said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey in a release.

"We knew before the season there would be interruptions and scheduling challenges related to COVID-19 and we will continue to manage the remaining weeks of the football schedule to allow for as many games to be played as possible, with a continuing focus on determining an SEC champion." 

Alabama and LSU will meet for the 85th time in series history next weekend. The Crimson Tide owns a 53-26-5 all-time advantage, despite losing last year’s shootout between Nos. 1 and 2, 46-41. That win by the Tigers snapped UA’s eight-game winning streak that included a 29-0 win in the Tide’s last visit to Baton Rouge. Alabama head coach Nick Saban is 10-5 in his career against LSU, including a 10-4 mark at Alabama. LSU head coach Ed Orgeron is 1-6 all-time against the Crimson Tide, including a 1-3 mark during his time in Baton Rouge. 

Because CBS had rights to the originally scheduled Alabama-LSU game on Nov. 14, the rescheduled game on Dec. 5 will be televised by CBS at 7 p.m. CT as part of a doubleheader. 

Revised schedule of SEC football games for Dec. 5:

Alabama at LSU
Arkansas at Missouri
Florida at Tennessee
South Carolina at Kentucky
Texas A&M at Auburn
Vanderbilt at Georgia

Alabama’s remaining regular-season football schedule:

Nov. 28 -- vs Auburn -- 2:30 CT (CBS) 
Dec. 5 -- at LSU -- 7 p.m. CT (CBS)
Dec. 12 -- at Arkansas -- TBA

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