Alabama vs. LSU game postponed as Tigers battle through COVID-19 outbreak within program
The Tigers have been dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak among the team, leading to the delay

The profoundly foreseen matchup between No. 1 Alabama and LSU in Baton Rouge this end of the week, scheduled for 6 p.m. ET as the SEC on CBS Game of the Week, has been deferred because of positive COVID-19 tests and contact following inside the LSU football program. The SEC will put forth an attempt to reschedule the game notwithstanding neither one of the teams having a typical bye week. LSU as of now had its game versus Florida delayed to Dec. 12, which is an inherent gathering wide bye week before the SEC Championship Game. The gathering said Tuesday that Dec. 19, the exact day as the SEC Championship Game, could be utilized for non-division victors to play rescheduled games.
This is the third SEC game to be delayed this end of the week. Mississippi State's home game versus No. 24 Auburn and No. 5 Texas A&M's outing to take on Tennessee were both delayed to Dec. 12 after certain tests and contact following inside the Mississippi State and Texas A&M programs, individually.
While it is awful to have different deferments in the very week, we started the season with the understanding interferences to the timetable were conceivable and we have stayed zeroed in all through the season on the soundness of everybody around our projects," said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. "We should stay careful, inside our projects and in our networks, to forestall the spread of the infection and to oversee exercises that add to these interferences.
It's been an intense week in the SEC on the COVID-19 front. Notwithstanding the three games that have been delayed, Auburn shut down group related exercises, Missouri is managing its own list concerns. furthermore, Arkansas mentor Sam Pittman tried positive and won't mentor in Saturday's down versus Florida.
In light of the quantity of understudy competitors inaccessible because of positive tests, contact following, and non-COVID wounds, we won't have the base number of grant players important to play on Saturday," LSU Director of Athletics Scott Woodward said. "We are frustrated there will be no football in Tiger Stadium this end of the week, yet we will consistently organize the wellbeing and health of our understudy competitors. We will keep on following the class' conventions to securely and dependably re-visitation of play.
The SEC received principles this late spring that state groups must have 53 accessible grant players including one quarterback, seven hostile linemen and four protective linemen to play. On the off chance that a group can't play on account of the base program necessities and it can't be made up, the game will be pronounced a no challenge.
The Crimson Tide and Tigers played an exemplary last season in Tuscaloosa which LSU won 46-41 in transit to an ideal season and a public title
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