When the season was still hot summer days away from starting, it was easy to point to Oct. 16 as a big day on the schedule.
Now, not so much.
Florida and LSU have combined for five losses this season and are clinging desperately to a chance to salvage a good season while knowing Atlanta is pretty much out.
This isn’t what we signed up for in August. An 11 a.m. local time game? (Good for Florida, but tells you about the status of this year’s contest). For the second straight year, one team isn’t ranked. And we’re looking at you LSU.
It doesn’t take away from the fact that these two teams don’t like each other and the fan bases get growling when they get together. Most of the animosity started with the postponement of the 2016 game because of Hurricane Matthew to the end of the season and the chirpiness that came out of Baton Rouge when we actually had a nice day on what would have been game day.
From there it escalated, but none of that means anything now. This is about two teams trying to find themselves while their fans wonder if they truly want to.