The Georgia Bulldogs at Missouri Tigers game has been postponed until later in the season following a COVID-19 outbreak within the Missouri football program. Missouri’s contract tracing deemed that the Tigers wouldn’t have enough players to play the Bulldogs.
Georgia football is coming off a loss to Florida and could’ve used a bounce-back week. Now, Georgia will have to hope they can play Mississippi State next week.
Missouri and UGA could potentially reschedule and play on Dec. 19.
UGA’s season is more development oriented at this point, so it is good that Georgia can still practice. Kudos to the UGA players and staff for being responsible and not having a major COVID-19 outbreak this season.
Here’s how Georgia Twitter reacted to the news of the postponed game:
Damn. #UGA needed this game on Saturday.
— Radi Nabulsi (@RadiNabulsi) November 11, 2020
Weak smh. 😑 https://t.co/22l9dbWC4k
— UGA United (@UGAUnited) November 11, 2020
UGA and Missouri could play on Dec 19th as a possibility, that is if the Dawgs are not in the SEC Championship game, which seems like a longshot at this point.
— Radi Nabulsi (@RadiNabulsi) November 11, 2020
If only there were something else for us all to watch this weekend… pic.twitter.com/FLOntX6KKU
— Jake Reuse (@ReuseRecruiting) November 11, 2020
There’s a lot of SEC games that have been postponed this weekend. Additionally, UGA’s next opponent (Mississippi State) has had to close their facility due to COVID-19.
Georgia at Missouri has been postponed due to COVID-19.
The following SEC games will not be played this weekend:
🔸 #1 Alabama vs LSU
🔸 #5 Texas A&M vs Tennessee
🔸 #12 Georgia at Missouri
🔸 #24 Auburn vs Mississippi State pic.twitter.com/8fG6vuspnN— PFF College (@PFF_College) November 11, 2020
Georgia's next scheduled opponent https://t.co/TIZATJWjPr
— Marc Weiszer (@marcweiszer) November 11, 2020
Georgia-Missouri is now cancelled, raising this week's total to 7.
— ProtectYourU.Net (@protectyouru) November 11, 2020
To be contrarian to this Tweet (below), the SEC has gotten through more of a season than many conferences have scheduled entirely.
Remember how smart (and smug) the SEC was in starting their football season early because they had the whole COVID thing under control? Now…..
Alabama/LSU Postponed
Texas A&M /Tennessee Postponed
Georgia/Missouri Postponed
Auburn/Mississippi State Postponed— Doug Upstone (@DougUpstone) November 11, 2020
Eliah Drinkwitz said there was another positive COVID-19 test from Tuesday's round of testing, which compounded Missouri's shortage at a certain position. That led to this morning's postponement of the Georgia game.
— Peter Baugh (@Peter_Baugh) November 11, 2020
Georgia at Missouri this weekend postponed https://t.co/rUvX87aIJT
— UGA Supporters (@Support_UGA) November 11, 2020
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