Name: Three SEC games have been postponed due to COVID-19 issues | Get Up
Uploaded: 2020-11-11T20:55:24.000Z
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The SEC has called off Saturday's games between Alabama and L S U and Texas A and M and Tennessee as a result of covert testing, which has depleted the Tigers and the Aggies rosters.

This coming on the heels of Monday's decision to postpone Auburn Mississippi State after the Bulldogs had similar issues with positive test results and subsequent contact tracing.

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Let me bring in Heather Dunwich and Paul Finebaum.

Because right now things feel very precarious in the SEC.

On Tuesday, all 14 SEC athletic directors agreed that December 19th, which is the day of the SEC conference championship game that should also be used as a make up date.

So that's why they didn't entirely close the door on Alabama L s U and say it's canceled.

Now Alabama is obviously the front runner to win the West and playing that SEC championship game, and if that happens, then the L S U game would probably be canceled.

But look, at the end of the day, the College Football playoff selection committee does not need to see Alabama play a struggling L S U team to figure out if it's one of the top four teams in the country.

But on Thursday, the SEC presidents and chancellors will review the idea of potentially using December 19th doesn't make update.

So I want to ask you something, and I wonder if this has been raised to them.

Yet as cases continue to rise all over the place, one would assume that we're going to continue to see more of this.

The idea of pushing everything back has that begun to be discussed by them again.

December 19th is one they would play these championship games.

December 20th is when they're supposed to choose the four teams.

Have they begun to consider the possibility they would have to push that date back?

No, there have been no conversations about that.

I would be surprised it's not impossible, but it would be a Herculean task.

Finding a TV window, as you know during NFL playoffs would be extremely difficult.

So you're looking at status quo January 11th Miami Gardens and that's the national championship for now.

But I will certainly let you know if that changes, but I highly doubt it.

And there's a lot of frustration inside the SEC about player behavior.

What I mean by that is at this point in the season were mid November.

Players are getting tired of following protocols.

Halloween was a week and a half ago on a lot of people think maybe that was one of the super spreaders that caused these issues.

The biggest issue is the contact tracing.

We've been through this movie a million times before, but what Heather said is really interesting.

Alabama doesn't really need to do anything else.

I think everyone acknowledges there there at least one of the two or three best teams in the country, if not the best.

L S u Alabama game being scrubbed way sat here a year and a week ago, talking about that game literally all week.

The president, the United States was at that game, and the thing that that game goes by the wayside is a body blow, at least to the image of the sec.

I mean, that is the biggest game of the year.

And for those kids at L S U who are having a bad year, that could be their Super Bowl.

That could be the one thing they get to do this season and quickly.

What ramifications in your mind, Paul, Does all of this have on the playoff?

Well, it probably won't seriously impacted because some of the games were seeing get postponed or canceled are not going to be Jermaine to the playoffs right now.

In the SEC, you have Alabama and Florida.

They very likely will meet in a Florida beats Alabama.

There are playoff serious playoff contender.

They'll probably get in A and M Texas A and M is sitting there in the top five or six.

And that's the frustration, because they lose another game to show that they are one of the best teams in the country.

All right, all the stuff bears keeping an eye on, and Paul and Heather will be doing that for us.

Thank you both So much for getting up early here.

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