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The coronavirus dominoes continued to fall for the University of Florida’s football team on Friday when it was announced that its game against the Missouri Tigers next weekend has been postponed one week and will now be played on Oct. 31 — Halloween — in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
The Gators already had their matchup with the LSU Tigers put off until Dec. 12 last Wednesday and the latest rescheduling is demonstrative of Florida’s lack of confidence that enough scholarship players will be cleared of COVID-19 to meet the Southeastern Conference’s minimum. Barring any other further setbacks, UF will be without a bye for the remainder of their schedule, including the typical week off before the SEC Championship Game — if they can even make it that far.
Our game vs. Missouri has been rescheduled for Saturday, October 31st.https://t.co/lUsdMkRFgP
— Gators Football (@GatorsFB) October 16, 2020
Missouri, on the other hand, will head back home and take on the Kentucky Wildcats this weekend — who were scheduled to play the Georgia Bulldogs this Saturday but that game also got shifted back to Halloween — instead of hosting the Vanderbilt Commodores, whose roster has been depleted by injuries and COVID-19. The Vandy game has been rescheduled for Dec. 12 much like Florida’s match with LSU.
Did you catch all of that?
It is only a matter of time before the conference’s music chairs collapse into chaos, but for now, the league is content with its dangerous dance with COVID-19. As they say, the show must go on.
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