Couple of notes:
FSU is not the only school having games postponed or canceled on game day. Boise State's game against San Jose State just got pulled too.
Also, more details in this statement from FSU:
Below is a statement from FSU Director of Athletics David Coburn
“Our team underwent the mandated third-party testing yesterday and learned late last night that we had one positive test. Contact tracing this morning determined that, with opt-outs and injuries, we had just 44 scholarship players for the game, with some position groups depleted almost entirely.
“We deeply regret that many Florida State and Virginia fans have already traveled to the game as well as Virginia’s team. We simply had no way of knowing we would not be playing until this morning. We made every effort to play, but we could not do so in a way that was safe for the players.”
More details regarding the rescheduled game, including ticket information, will be announced at a later date.
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Welp. FSU-Virginia is postponed. More coming
Press release:
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) - The Atlantic Coast Conference announced that today’s Virginia at Florida State football game has been postponed.
The rescheduling follows positive tests, subsequent quarantining, and contact tracing within the Florida State football team. The team is adhering to the outlined protocols within the ACC Medical Advisory Group report, which is available on theACC.com (full report).
As was previously announced, the 2020 ACC Football scheduling model includes 11 games (10 conference plus one non-conference), played over at least 13 weeks with each team having two open dates. Through games of Nov. 21, the ACC has played 69 of its 78 scheduled games (88.5 percent). Six of those games have been rescheduled, one non-conference opponent was replaced, one game was canceled and one game was postponed. There have been several changes to the last four weeks of the schedule that can be found on theACC.com.
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Spoke to several people around the program and all signs are that Saturday's game will go forward. Yes, there are a handful of players that may be out because of COVID concerns (either tested positive or because of contact tracing). But all indications are that this involves just a few players and will probably have a minimum impact on the game. It's possible that those that were flagged because of contact tracing could be back in time for the game. The only way the game doesn't happen is if a bunch of tests that took place Friday come back positive, but that's the case every week.
The team did practice Friday as it normally does. And Virginia is getting ready to travel to Tallahassee for the game.
With COVID situations are always fluid. However, the initial concerns about the game taking place seems to be exaggerated.
We will update this post as more information comes our way.
FSU is not the only school having games postponed or canceled on game day. Boise State's game against San Jose State just got pulled too.
Also, more details in this statement from FSU:
Below is a statement from FSU Director of Athletics David Coburn
“Our team underwent the mandated third-party testing yesterday and learned late last night that we had one positive test. Contact tracing this morning determined that, with opt-outs and injuries, we had just 44 scholarship players for the game, with some position groups depleted almost entirely.
“We deeply regret that many Florida State and Virginia fans have already traveled to the game as well as Virginia’s team. We simply had no way of knowing we would not be playing until this morning. We made every effort to play, but we could not do so in a way that was safe for the players.”
More details regarding the rescheduled game, including ticket information, will be announced at a later date.
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Welp. FSU-Virginia is postponed. More coming
Press release:
Virginia at Florida State Football Game Postponed
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) - The Atlantic Coast Conference announced that today’s Virginia at Florida State football game has been postponed.
The rescheduling follows positive tests, subsequent quarantining, and contact tracing within the Florida State football team. The team is adhering to the outlined protocols within the ACC Medical Advisory Group report, which is available on theACC.com (full report).
As was previously announced, the 2020 ACC Football scheduling model includes 11 games (10 conference plus one non-conference), played over at least 13 weeks with each team having two open dates. Through games of Nov. 21, the ACC has played 69 of its 78 scheduled games (88.5 percent). Six of those games have been rescheduled, one non-conference opponent was replaced, one game was canceled and one game was postponed. There have been several changes to the last four weeks of the schedule that can be found on theACC.com.
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Spoke to several people around the program and all signs are that Saturday's game will go forward. Yes, there are a handful of players that may be out because of COVID concerns (either tested positive or because of contact tracing). But all indications are that this involves just a few players and will probably have a minimum impact on the game. It's possible that those that were flagged because of contact tracing could be back in time for the game. The only way the game doesn't happen is if a bunch of tests that took place Friday come back positive, but that's the case every week.
The team did practice Friday as it normally does. And Virginia is getting ready to travel to Tallahassee for the game.
With COVID situations are always fluid. However, the initial concerns about the game taking place seems to be exaggerated.
We will update this post as more information comes our way.
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